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Sun 2 Nov 2008 | 17h45 GMT+1
Info: www.io9.com
That Premiere article... soon to be deleted here too?
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Soo... there was this article that gave some detailed description of a visit on the set of Terminator Salvation, yet
it was deleted on their site, but reposted on others, and now also here, but it might get deleted? Whats it all about?
We we're strolling along the web, searching for some more news on the new Terminator Salvation movie, to find some site
that had a very interesting article, reading through it, then following the link, only to find out that we did not get
access to the site. That article stated it was an United States special, soo we thought it might be limited to US based
folks, IP checked and disabled for the rest of the world reader.
Then, checking back with other sources, we found out that the article was just deleted. Lucky for us fans, there are lots
of other fans out there that kept a copy of the article available for all to view... and we can not feature it too.
This depends on how long, since we are right up there in the fansites that WB, FOX and other big companies keeps 'check'
on, so we are wondering how long it will take for them to contact us too, to delete the article.
So, read onwards folks... as long as it lasts ;).
On the Set of McG's 'Terminator Salvation'
Source: www.premiere.com (original link)
Premiere heads to New Mexico to go toe to toe with the new Terminator, director McG, and costar Sam Worthington in this
US exclusive.
Rising up from the plateau of the Albuquerque desert is the burned remnants of a concrete highway overpass, riddled with
fissures and mangled steel reinforcement rods. Exposed openings of two water ducts jut out. Atop the ledge of the precipice,
a figure is about to jump. Dressed in a black bomber jacket and combat boots, with weaponry slung about his waist, he
hesitates for a second and then plummets head first to the ground. Supported by barely visible cables, his descent seems
to almost be in slow motion.
"Hey, Christian, that looked great!" The voice belongs to a tall figure in a Penguin shirt, black shorts, and a white
Stetson, hidden from the desert heat in a makeshift tent. McG watches the action from behind several monitors but also
keeps an eagle eye on the set towering above him. "Did you see me start to spin though?" laughs Bale, before downing a
bottle of red Vitamin Water.
Weights are removed from the camera's massive crane to allow for higher movement, and for the umpteenth time, Christian
Bale is hoisted on wires to the top of the set. The stunt coordinator tells Bale not to undulate so much and to eliminate
any pendulum effect by jumping outwards and not upwards. This time Bale is joined at the top of the highway structure by
a few members of his armed resistance group, all well-built warrior-types in leather chaps, leggings, kneepads, bulletproof
vests, sunglasses or goggles, and all toting heavy-fire guns. The atmosphere on the set seems to shift subtlety, a palpable
sense of tension rising as set medics gather around. An eerie silence settles. Everything is in an uncomfortable holding
pattern as McG waits for a fleeting cloud to pass overhead.
"Standby!" A low hissing noise is audible. "Everyone got what they need? Picture's up! Fire in the hole! We are rolling...
3-2-1. Action!" Just as Bale tosses a bag over the ledge, a massive explosion blasts the actors from the edge of the
concrete structure. Chips of wood, charcoal and other debris scatter over the set in a brown rainstorm. The acrid odor
that follows the explosion is quickly replaced the unmistakable smell of... sewage. A cleaning service, blissfully blind
to the fact that one of 2009's most expensive and highly anticipated films is shooting a key action sequence, has just
cleaned out the set's portable toilets. A mind-numbing stench settles over the set, and actors and crew flee in all
directions, covering their noses.
Back in the quiet confines of an editing room located on the studio lot, McG, the maverick director perhaps best known
for the 2000's big screen version of Charlie's Angels, is unable to contain his passion for Terminator Salvation: The
Future Begins, often referred to on set as simply T4. His enthusiasm for the project is contagious. Seemingly incapable
of censoring himself, McG freely reveals innumerous crucial plot points of the story (by Michael Ferris, John Brancato,
and David C. Wilson) and describes in detail how the movie, slated to be the first in a reboot of the series, opens.
"You start with storyboards," he says. "I want Connor to run up and get into his chopper. He thinks there is a pilot [in
the helicopter]. He touches him on the shoulder. He falls out dead. One single shot to the head. He realizes it is the
mark of a Terminator. Connor is proficient [in flying]. He gets in and takes off in his helicopter. Through the window
we see the body of the communication outpost below and it implodes before it explodes like all those nuclear test films
[from the 1960s] that we all saw. The shock wave hits his helicopter. He goes into a flat spin, but ultimately lands. The
camera stays fixed inside the cockpit, and we stay with him as he crawls out. We shift to a steadicam and go with him,
arch around until we see the body of the cloud of the explosion behind him, and we register his grief. But before he can
do anything about it, he is interrupted by the hand of the Terminator which he landed on on the way in. And then they
battle in a way designed to replicate the Sarah Connor battle at the end of the first [Terminator film] — like mother,
like son. He ultimately [destroys] it with a machine gun.
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"The interesting thing about this movie is that Connor comes to be under suspicion. Command will look at him and say,
'How come you keep coming through these things alive? And you know so much about the machines? What is that all about?'
And they point a finger at him while the audience is realizing..." and here McG's voice is raised to an indignant shout:
"... that is *beep* John Connor! If anybody is on the side of humanity, it is this guy!' One thing I learned from Amy
Pascal at Sony," he muses, "is make sure your hero deserves all the credit in the world and gets none. And that is John
Connor."
And in T4, John Connor is Christian Bale, arguably Hollywood's most sought-after male lead for both action and drama. The
film plots John Connor's early rise as leader of the Tech-Com human resistance against Skynet after their destruction of
much of humanity in a devastating nuclear holocaust. "He is extremely focused," says McG of the Batman franchise star.
"He is deeply in tune with his instrument. He diets judiciously. He is very methodical and well prepared. He asks a great
many questions. We work on the script day and night."
But the film is not exclusively centered on John Connor. Much screen time will be dedicated to developing the parallel
history of Marcus Wright, a member of the resistance who befriends Connor but who is later revealed to be a decommissioned
Terminator. Wright has no memory of his past: his earliest recollection is of being on death row. It is up to Connor to
figure out if Wright, who did not figure in the prophecy handed down to him by his mother, is someone from the past or
perhaps sent from the future. For the role of Marcus Wright, McG picked little known Australian actor Sam Worthington,
who first drew the attention of international critics for his nuanced performance in the indie flick Somersault. That
led to other roles and eventually the coveted male lead in James Cameron's highly anticipated Avatar. Cameron, who
directed the first three Terminator films, vetted Worthington as the ideal choice for Marcus Wright, but the main
recommendation came from a fellow actor from Down Under.
"I just wanted a guy who you could hit with a shovel and it would look like he could shake it off," says McG, "I find
that a great many of today's young male actors are pussies. They are waify, and they are all sort of heroin chic. Sam
is a fundamentally tough guy from Western Australia. He's a no-tears kind of guy. Truthfully, it was an email I got from
Russell Crowe that said, 'You won't be sorry if you cast this guy.'"
For Worthington, the movie is about beginnings: "How did John Connor become John Connor? In this one he is not the general,
the leader as such, as yet. He is working his way up the ranks. How did Kyle Reese become Kyle Reese, the Michael Biehn that
we know from the first one?" Worthington was sent the script and wanted to play the role but was cautious about stepping
into a franchise that had been created by the director that had just cast him in his biggest movie role to date, by the
man who will make him a star of the future. "I wanted [Jim's] blessing to be honest, getting into something as big as this
and after working with him for so long. It is his baby. I did not want to do it if it were a crap move."
The weight of taking on the mantle to continue one of the most successful and beloved sci-fi series in cinema history is
not lost on Worthington: "It's a big thing. The movie has got a lot of history, and a lot of people love it. You just don't
want to *beep* it up, to be honest. So that is what keeps going on in my head... We hound McG all the time to try and get
this story right because you read all about [if there] should be another one. What is the point of us making another one?
We've got The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Why are we doing T4? So, what do we want to say? Yeah, it is a big popcorn movie,
but what are we trying to say on a deeper level?"
Aside from the pressures of living up to the past and communicating the sociopolitical message of the film, the sheer
physicality of the part is also taxing. "We have torn many muscles," says Worthington. "I was doing a fight scene. The
guy was a dead weight, and as I pulled him off I just tore all my intercostal muscles. But you just pump yourself full
of painkillers and keep going. Then get another bruise and worry about that."
The new installment in the series will be the first not to star Arnold Schwarzenegger or Linda Hamilton, although the
director does hint that the now Governor of California may have a "special appearance" in the picture. McG, who says he
spoke with Schwarzenegger about the Terminator character, says he was "very supportive" of T4. But, jokes McG, "He was
mad at us for not shooting in California!"
Click top link for the io9 version of the article!
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