T4! T-More? T-Bore?!

Saw the T4 trailer!

If you harbour similar desires yourself; look here.

No images have been released (that I could find), so you'll have to content yourself with one of Simon Bisley's covers for Dark Horse's Terminator: Enemy Within comic series as a header.

My findings? Looks like flashy well-lit post-apocalyptia. Feel fairly neutral on it. I'm assured that the overall screen sheen has much in common with TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Wow. Great. Thanks. It certainly looks nothing like Cameron's smoke choked neo Stalingrad.

I did enjoy the static bursts hammering out Brad Fiedel's Terminator theme, and sand blasted landscape always remind me of Mad Max 2: Road Warrior / Fist of the North Star - both nostalgia jerks born elsewhere, bubbling up to make something totally different palatable. Christian Bale assures a certain amount of quality though, I'm half-way convinced he's quite incapable of being anything less than great. In interviews he always seems to have a keen genre hat on too; not merely doling out what-you-want-to-hear plaudits, rather demonstrating passion and a research instinct. I would hope that insures a script-level integrity.

The apparently obligatory Terminator role is played by Australian actor Sam Worthington.



Personally recommended by James Cameron (fresh off a role in next years Avatar), he has that man-in-crowd quality that Cameron originally toyed with (but rejected) when plotting the 1984 original. Better Mr Worthington than a musclebound ex-wrestler or Vin Diesel eh?

My main fears (dreads, anxiety attacks) rest first on director McG, and secondly the script. McG, or Joseph McGinty Nichol to his Mum, has directed several bad films - chief among which is surely Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - and been involved with listing filler TV drek like Pussycat Dolls Present: Search for the Next Doll. It's the resume of a middle-aged chronic masturbator. Rise to the occasion? He'll need a fucken jetpack. Script wise, all I can say is that I sincerely hope that mega spoiler that did the rounds a few months back is completely inaccurate. Otherwise, who gives a fuck? It's not brave, it's just an Alien vs Predator-esque retroactive continuity fucker. Quite apt given the modus operandi of the title characters like, but I'm not that fond of irony.

Water Terminators too eh? What a crock of shit.