Christian Bale is John Connor (Terminator 4)

[Frostmarrow]

According to Imdb a new trilogy of Terminator movies will be made. The first one is called Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. John Connor fights Skynet and, presumably, HKs Hunter Killers. I just want to say Christian Bale is an excellent choice. Just add some facial scars and presto! Mean lean saviour of man.

 

[Mark]

I just want to say Christian Bale is an excellent choice.

He's a good all around actor.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

He is a damn good actor and looks physically perfect for the role.

 

[Tal Rasha]

[Diatribe] Long, elaborate, intricate and detailed discussion as to why Hollywood sucks, people don't have any imagination and Terminator needs to die. [/Diatribe]



Have to agree, Christian Bale is a good actor. I guess we'll have to see how he does.

 

[TwistedBishop]

From what I've read, John Connor is more of an off-screen character in this next Terminator trilogy. He's there and leading the resistance, but the main throughline follows a soldier under his command.

 

[Alzrius]

Christian Bale is an excellent choice. I've yet to see him in a bad role. He's really a great actor.

There are conflicting reports about whether John Conner and Marcus (the new hero) will have an equal screen presence, or whether the latter will be the main character of the new film(s).

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Interesting news. And Christian Bale is one of my favourite actors!

I wonder how the new Terminator TV series is going and if that influenced the desision for the Terminator movies, and whether they will reference each other or stand on their own. (I suppose the latter, since the series and the 3rd movie seem to contradict each other...)

I liked the series so far, and I hope it succeeds. And I also hope the new movies won't suck.

 

[wolff96]

I wonder how the new Terminator TV series is going and if that influenced the desision for the Terminator movies, and whether they will reference each other or stand on their own. (I suppose the latter, since the series and the 3rd movie seem to contradict each other...)

Now, see, for a series that is so firmly rooted in changing the past, I don't see a real contradiction.

In T3, it was after Sarah Connor had died of cancer.

Then, in the series, Summer Glau and the other terminator went back BEFORE those events and changed them -- that timeline was cut off and effectively no longer happened. It was referenced (the Tam-inator mentioned Sarah dying of cancer on the 'correct' date from T3), it just changed because they had altered the past.

So T3 is kind of an orphaned storyline, but not directly contradicted... it just no longer happened because the timeline changed. They already did this in the story once -- Judgement Day no longer happened on the date listed in T1, due to the Connors' actions in T2 to destroy Cyberdine. T3 (and the series) indicate that it still happens... but now the date has changed.

If you really want to bend your brain... try and figure out how events originally led to Connor sending his lieutentant back in time to be his own father, since the Terminator movies and series have shown an iterative timeline of small changes to the future based on changes in the past.

Now, we could start discussing how they're messing with their own rules in the series (the destroyed Terminator's head travelled in time with them, despite no organic cover, for one thing)... but that's another topic.

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I'm very happy with the casting of Bale, he's a great actor.