I was all weirded out when they hired Anton Yelchin, this goofy kid, to play Chekov in the new Star Trek, so imagine how I feel now that he’s in talks to play Reese in Terminator: Return of the Terminator 4. But yes, he’s in negotiations to play a younger version of Michael Biehn’s character from the first one.
By the way, the trade announcement about this gives away the huge spoiler my dumb ass has been sitting on – mainly that Sam Worthington’s character, Marcus, is an early Terminator model. Hey gang, sorry, but I felt that one would ruin the movie so I didn’t run it. But now it’s in the Hollywood Reporter…
Anyway, the film, which McG will start directing in May, may yet get rewritten. The early version I reported on, which had Christian Bale’s John Connor in essentially a cameo, might be getting a once over from Oscar winning hack Paul Haggis. Hey, the man has insurance premiums to pay before he crashes into a stranger here in LA… just to feel them.