This article is about the film. For the video game based on the film, see
Terminator Salvation (video game).
Terminator Salvation
Theatrical poster
Directed by
McGProduced by
Derek AndersonVictor KubicekJeffrey Silver
Moritz BormanWritten by
Screenplay:
John D. BrancatoMichael FerrisUncredited:
Jonathan NolanAnthony E. ZuikerShawn RyanPaul HaggisDavid C. WilsonCharacters:
James CameronGale Anne HurdNarrated by
Linda HamiltonStarring
Christian BaleSam WorthingtonAnton YelchinMoon BloodgoodBryce Dallas HowardCommonJane AlexanderHelena Bonham CarterMusic by
Danny ElfmanThemes:
Brad FiedelCinematography
Shane HurlbutEditing by
Conrad BuffStudio
The Halcyon CompanyDistributed by
U.S. and Canada:
Warner Bros.International:
Columbia PicturesSony Pictures EntertainmentRelease date(s)
U.S. and Canada:May 21, 2009United Kingdom:June 3, 2009Australia:June 4, 2009Mexico:July 31, 2009
Running time
115 min.
[1]Country
United StatesLanguage
EnglishBudget
US$200 million
Preceded by
Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesFollowed by
Terminator Salvation SequelTerminator Salvation is a 2009
American science fiction post-apocalyptic war film set for release on June 4, 2009 in Australia, June 3, 2009 in the UK and May 21, 2009 in the United States. Directed by
McG, it is the fourth film in the
Terminator series and stars
Christian Bale as
John Connor and
Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright, a cyborg who believes he is human. It also introduces a young version of the first film's hero,
Kyle Reese, played by
Anton Yelchin, and depicts the origins of the
T-800 Model 101 Terminator, played by
Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Roland Kickinger. Being both a
sequel and a
prequel to the previous films, Salvation, set in 2018, focuses on the war between humanity and
Skynet. It abandons the format of previous entries in the series, which only revolved around
Terminators and various other characters traveling through time to either kill or protect John Connor before the events of Judgment Day unfold. It is the first film in the series to receive the PG-13 certificate in the USA, and the second to receive a 12A certificate in the UK.On May 1, 2009,
Warner Bros. released the following plot summary for the film:
The year is
2018. Judgment Day has come and gone, leveling modern civilization. An army of Terminators roams the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. But small groups of survivors have organized into a Resistance, hiding in underground bunkers and striking when they can against an enemy force that vastly outnumbers them. Controlling the Terminators is the artificial intelligence network Skynet, which became self-aware 14 years earlier and, in the blink of an eye, turned on its creators, unleashing nuclear annihilation on an unsuspecting world. Only one man saw Judgment Day coming. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human existence: John Connor (
Christian Bale). Now the world is on the brink of the future that Connor has been warned about all his life. But something totally new has shaken his belief that humanity stands a chance of winning this war: the appearance of Marcus Wright (
Sam Worthington), a stranger from the past whose last memory is of being on
death row before awakening in this strange, new world. Connor must decide whether Marcus can be trusted. But as Skynet adapts new strategies to end the Resistance forever, Connor and Marcus must find common ground to take a stand against the onslaught—to infiltrate Skynet and meet the enemy head-on.
[2]Connor does not start off as leader of the human resistance, but will work his way through the ranks in the film. He is mistrusted by other soldiers due to his extensive knowledge of Skynet.
[3] McG said that the film will reveal the development of the Model 101 Terminator as well:
[4] scenes involve humans being captured and studied by Skynet in order to perfect their cybernetic organisms and John explaining "[if] we let these things go online, the war is over".
[5] Skynet tries to kill
Kyle Reese because it is aware that Reese is John's father, and uses him as a bait in an attempt to kill John.
[6][
edit] Cast
Christian Bale as
John Connor: A soldier in the
Resistance waging war against
Skynet after it destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, who is destined to become humanity's leader. Director McG deemed Bale "the most credible action star in the world" during development.
[5] McG wanted Bale for Marcus, but the actor – for reasons he "can't really remember why" – wanted to play Connor, and that led to the character's role getting expanded in rewrites of the script.
[7] Bale was the first person to be cast and signed on for the role in November 2007. McG talked extensively with Bale in the
UK about the role while the latter was filming
The Dark Knight, and they both agreed to proceed.
[8] Although a fan of the Terminator series, he was at first uninterested, until McG convinced him the story would be character-based and not rely on special effects.
[5] They kept working on the story every day, along with Worthington.
[9] McG said Bale broke his hand punching a Terminator prop during filming.
[10] Bale also spent six to eight hours each day with McG in the editing room to advise the finished product.
[11]Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright: A resistance soldier who is plagued by vague memories and is discovered to be a decommissioned Terminator.
[3] His last memory is of being on
death row, and John is unsure of whether Wright is from the past or from the future.
[12] Terminator creator
James Cameron personally recommended Worthington (whom he directed in
Avatar) to McG.
[13] Russell Crowe also recommended him to McG. McG decided Worthington looked tougher than the "great many of today's [waify] young male actors".
[3] Worthington recalled Cameron told him "the Terminator to make is the one with the war".
[14] Worthington tore his
intercostal muscles during the first weeks of filming, but he nevertheless insisted on performing his own stunts.
[15][3] McG had originally asked Christian Bale to play the role, but the latter insisted on portraying John instead, and to expand the character's role.
[16] The former once expressed interest in casting
Daniel Day-Lewis or
Josh Brolin in the part as well.
[17][4] Brolin did talk to Bale and read a draft of the screenplay, which he found "interesting and dark, [but] ultimately, though, I didn't think it felt right".
[18]Anton Yelchin as
Kyle Reese: A teenage soldier and admirer of John Connor. As portrayed by
Michael Biehn in
The Terminator, he was sent back in time to 1984 to protect
Sarah Connor to ensure the survival of the human race, and fathered John with her. Yelchin said he wanted to portray Reese as Biehn did and not make him appear weaker because it was a younger version of the character. The difference in his portrayal lies in showing Reese as intense, but not concentrated until he joins the resistance proper. Yelchin tried to convey Reese's intensity by focusing on how fast Biehn appeared when running in the original film.
[19]Bryce Dallas Howard as
Kate Connor: John's wife, who is seven months pregnant.
Charlotte Gainsbourg was originally set to play the part, but left due to scheduling conflicts with another film.
[20] As portrayed by
Claire Danes in the third film, Kate was a
veterinarian; but in this film, she is now a
physician. Howard suggested, as part of the character's backstory, that Kate studied medical books and interviewed many surviving doctors after the events of Judgment Day. The film's subject matter reminded her of
developing countries, devastated by war and lack basic supplies such as clean water, which "reflects things that are going on currently in this privileged world that we're living in where there hasn't been an apocalypse and robots haven't taken over the world. I think that's something definitely for us to reinvestigate and that we continue to make choices for our own future to take that into consideration".
[21] Howard also focused on Kate "being accustomed to fear and loss" because the character was a
military brat.
[6]Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams: A battle-hardened fighter pilot in John’s resistance cell, Blair continues the legacy of the Terminator franchise and its penchant for tough-as-nails female characters a la Sarah Connor. After being shot down by Skynet’s aerial forces, Blair is aided by Marcus and the two become fast friends on their way to rendezvousing with John Connor and his team. Her instincts—honed from years surviving in the wastelands and flying countless combat missions—lead her to trust Marcus, despite growing suspicions in Connor’s inner circle about the mysterious stranger’s motives.
[22] She will apparently be a romantic interest for Marcus.
[23]Common as Barnes: A resistance soldier and John's
right-hand man.
[24][25]Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Serena Kogan: The lead villain of the film, and a Terminator hybrid.
[26] Before Judgment Day, Serena was an ex-
Cyberdyne scientist with terminal cancer working on advanced technology, convincing Marcus to donate his body to Project Angel for her "research," for which will fall into the hands of Skynet.
[27] Tilda Swinton was originally considered for the part, but Carter replaced her before filming. She accepted the part because her boyfriend,
Tim Burton, is a Terminator fan. Her role was a "small but pivotal" one and would only require ten days of shooting.
[28] On August 22, 2008, Carter delayed filming by a day,
[29] and was given an indefinite leave due to the death of four of her family members in a minibus accident in South Africa.
[30]Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Roland Kickinger as the
T-800 Model 101: The first Terminator covered in living human tissue built as Skynet's newest weapon for the extermination of humankind. Schwarzenegger will reprise his role via
ADR and
CGI facials, while the
Austrian bodybuilder Kickinger, who previously portrayed Schwarzenegger in the 2005 biographical film
See Arnold Run, was his double on set, for which a mold of the former — from 1983 — was scanned to create Kickinger's digital resemblance to the actor.
[31] When asked about his role, Kickinger said it's "Arnold's character in the first Terminator. That's basically my role, but 20 years before, so it establishes how the Terminator came about."
[32] Polish strongman athlete
Mariusz Pudzianowski was also considered for doubling Schwarzenegger.
[33] If Schwarzenegger had decided not to lend his appearance to the film, then Connor would have shot the T-800's face off before the audience got a good look at him.
[34]Additional cast members include
Brian Steele as a
T-600,
[35] Jadagrace Berry as Star, a girl in Reese's care,
[6] Chris Ashworth as Richter,
[36] Chris Browning as Morrison,
[37] Michael Ironside as General Ashdown, the resistance leader before John,
[11] Jane Alexander as Virginia, a refugee,
[38] and
Terry Crews as Captain Jericho.
[39] Linda Hamilton has been confirmed to reprise her role as
Sarah Connor in a voice over that opens the movie; they are from tapes Sarah recorded before her death prior to the film's events to warn John of the future war.
[40][41][42][
edit] Production
[
edit] Development
In 1999, two years after
C2 Pictures purchased the rights to the franchise, two Terminator films' premises were mapped out and were supposed to be developed simultaneously. Tedi Sarafian was hired to write
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which he eventually received shared story credit for, while David C. Wilson was to write Terminator 4. Before any revisions were done, T3 initially took place in 2001 and revolved around the first attacks between Skynet and humans. T4 would follow immediately afterwards and centered primarily on the war seen in the first two movies.
[43]Following the release of Terminator 3 in 2003, producers
Andrew G. Vajna and
Mario Kassar contracted
Nick Stahl and
Claire Danes to return as
John Connor and
Kate Brewster in another film.
[44] Director
Jonathan Mostow helped develop the script, written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and was set to begin production in 2005 after completing another film. It was known by then
Arnold Schwarzenegger's role would be limited having assumed office as
Governor of California. The producers sought to have
Warner Bros. finance the picture as they did for Terminator 3.
[45] In 2005, Stahl said Connor and Brewster would be recast as the story jumped forward in time.
[46] By 2006,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, distributor of the original film
The Terminator, was set to distribute the fourth film as part of the new CEO Harry Sloan's scheme to make the studio a viable Hollywood player
On May 9, 2007, it was announced that production rights to the Terminator series had passed from the feuding Vajna and Kassar to
the Halcyon Company. The producers hoped to start a new trilogy based on the franchise.
[47] By July 19, the project was in legal limbo due to a lawsuit between MGM and Halcyon subsidiary T Asset. MGM had an exclusive window of 30 days to negotiate for distribution of the Terminator films. When negotiating for Terminator 4, Halcyon rejected their initial proposal, and MGM suspended negotiations. After the 30 days were over, MGM claimed that the period during which negotiations were suspended did not count and their exclusive period was still open. Halcyon asked a court for an injunction allowing them to approach other distributors.
[48][
edit] Writing
McG signed on to direct as the first two films were among his favorites, and he had even cast
Robert Patrick (who played the
T-1000) in his films.
[49] Though he was initially unsure about "flogging a dead horse,"
[5] he felt the post-apocalyptic setting allowed the film to be different enough so to not be an inferior sequel. The idea that events in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3 altered the future also allowed them to be flexible with their presentation of the futuristic world.
[50] McG met with the series' co-creator
James Cameron, and, although he neither blessed nor cursed the project, Cameron told the new director he had faced a similar challenge when following
Ridley Scott's
Alien with
Aliens.
[5] He maintained two elements of the previous films; that John is an outsider to the authorities, and someone of future importance is being protected, and in this film it is
Kyle Reese.
[38]The first full screenplay for the film was written by Terminator 3 writers
John Brancato and Michael Ferris, who received full screenplay credit.
Paul Haggis rewrote Brancato and Ferris's script,
[51] and
Shawn Ryan made another revision three weeks before filming.
[52] Jonathan Nolan also wrote on set, which led to McG characterizing his work on the script as the most important;
[50] he chose to contribute to the film after Bale signed on and created Connor's arc of becoming a leader.
[53] Anthony E. Zuiker contributed to the script as well.
[54] So extensive were the rewrites that
Alan Dean Foster decided to rewrite the entire novelization after submitting it to his publisher, because the compiled shooting script was very different from the one he was given beforehand.
[55]"You survived the nuclear holocaust and you crawl out of the hole after three-to-five years and say, 'Well, I know what's going on — I'm the one!' Some SAS guy isn't going to say, 'Where do I go, boss?' He'd say, 'Shut the fuck up and get in line.'"
— McG on John's struggles to become the leader.
[56]In the early script drafts, John was a secondary character. Producer James Middleton explained "
Ben-Hur was influenced by
Jesus Christ, but it was his story. Much in that way, this [new main] character will be influenced by John Connor."
[57] The original ending was to have John killed, and his image kept alive by the resistance by grafting his skin onto Marcus' cybernetic body.
[58][59] However, after the Internet leak, Warner Bros. decided to completely change the entire third act of the film.
[60] McG and Nolan did continue the Christ element of Connor's character though, in which he has some followers who believe what he knows about Skynet, and others who do not.
[61]McG described the film's theme as "where you draw the line between machines and humans".
[5] The friendship between Marcus — who was treated wrongly when humanity still ruled the world — and
Kyle Reese illustrates how war and suffering can bring out the best in people, such as when they worked together to survive during the
Blitz.
[56] The title was derived from this second chance given to humanity and to Marcus, in addition to Connor's efforts to save humanity from the machines.
[62] The film's original title was Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, but this was dropped during filming.
[56]Throughout writing, the cast and crew would watch scenes from the three films to pick moments to reference or tribute, including "
I'll be back", which is uttered by Connor in this film. McG found himself having to decide which ideas for references would be included and which would not.
[63] An opening scene has Connor fighting a Terminator on a crashed helicopter, which was storyboarded as a homage to the climax of the original film, where his mother Sarah, having broken her leg, is chased by a crippled Terminator. McG did this to reflect the skills Connor learned from her.
[3][
edit] Filming and design
Shooting of the film started on May 5, 2008 in
New Mexico.
[64] Filming also took place at
Kirtland Air Force Base in the state.
[65] The filmmakers had originally intended to begin filming on April 15 in
Budapest,
[66] but a new twenty-five percent
tax rebate and absence of an
interest rate cap and floor made the filmmakers seek the cheaper New Mexico, because of their $200 million budget.
[67] To avoid delays caused by a possible
2008 Screen Actors Guild strike in July, all exterior scenes were completed by then, so production could restart easily.
[68] The shoot ended on August 22, 2008,
[29] though some
pick-ups took place in January 2009.
[69]In addition to Bale breaking his hand and Worthington hurting his back, special effects technician Mike Menardis almost lost his leg filming an explosion. The sequence required a manhole being blown into the air, which hit Menardis and partially severed his leg. McG noted it was testament to the gritty style of the film. "I say with respect, I didn't want that
Star Wars experience of everything's a blue screen, tennis balls, and go for it. I had
Stan Winston build all the machines. We built all the sets, the explosive power, the explosive power so you feel that wind and that percussion and that heat blowing your eyebrows off. And with that you get a couple bumps and bruises on the way, but you get it in an integrity and a realism that hopefully echoes Apocalypse Now. You couldn't say, 'Let's just shoot
Apocalypse Now in
Burbank, I think it's going to feel just as good.'"
[62]The film used
Technicolor's
Oz process during post-production. This is a partial
silver retention on the
interpositive, similar to
bleach bypass, which will be used to lend to the sense of detachment from the modern world McG was looking for.
[9] The filmmakers consulted with many scientists about the effects of an abandoned world and
nuclear winter.
[49] McG cited
Mad Max 2, the original
Star Wars trilogy and
Children of Men, as well as the novel
The Road, as his visual influences.
[5][49] He instructed his cast to read the latter as well as
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?[50][70] Like Children of Men, McG would storyboard scenes so that it would be edited together to resemble a
seamless, continuous shot.
[71]The majority of the machines were designed by Martin Laing, a crew member on Cameron's
Titanic and
Ghosts of the Abyss.
[35] McG described many of the machines as having a
H. R. Giger influence.
[49] McG's intent was to create a gritty, tactile 2018 on screen, and Laing concurred the robots would have to be black and degraded as none of them are new. Laing devised Aerostats, which are smaller versions of the Aerial Hunter Killers from the previous films. These Aerostats send a signal to the 60 feet tall humanoid Harvesters. They are very big and slow, so they utilize Mototerminators to capture humans, and the Harvesters place them in Transporters. Laing was unsure of how to design the Transporters until he saw a cattle transport while driving through Albuquerque. Completing Skynet's domination of air, land and sea is the Hydrobot, which Laing modeled on
eels.
[56] The film features the rubber-skinned
T-600s and T-700s. McG interpreted
Kyle Reese's description in the original film of the T-600 as being easy to spot by making them tall and bulky.
[5]Salvation was one of the last films Winston, the
visual effects supervisor on the first three films, worked on. He died on June 15, 2008 from
multiple myeloma,
[72] and McG will dedicate the film to him.
[11] John Rosengrant and Charlie Gibson replaced Winston,
[35] and McG commented that they are "trying to achieve something that's never been done before"
[73] and will "push the envelope".
[74] Motion capture was used to show damage to the Terminator Marcus' face,
[38] while a 20 foot tall model was used for the explosion of a 30-story building.
[56]During filming, Bale became
angry at director of photography
Shane Hurlbut, swearing at him and threatening to leave the film; audio of the incident was leaked in February 2009. Bale apologized publicly and said he resolved his differences with Hurlbut, and that when the incident took place they continued to film for a few hours.
[75][
edit] Music
Danny Elfman began composing the score in January 2009. Beforehand, McG had the idea to hire
Gustavo Santaolalla, who he got to speak with, to work on the human themes, while having either
Thom Yorke or
Jonny Greenwood for Skynet's themes.
[53][40] He also wanted to discuss scoring the film with
Hans Zimmer, but he was unable to arrange a meeting. However, he managed to meet with The Terminator and Terminator 2 composer
Brad Fiedel. McG was not interested in repeating the sounds Fiedel achieved in his films but still wanted Elfman to use those themes and ambient sounds, and give them a "
Wagnerian quality".
[38]Reprise Records will release the soundtrack on May 19, 2009, which will include fifteen tracks.
Alice in Chains' "
Rooster" is among the featured songs,
[76] while
Common has expressed interest in writing a song for the soundtrack.
[77]Soundtrack
[76]Terminator Salvation
Film score by
Danny ElfmanReleased
May 19th 2009
LabelReprise Records
Opening
All Is Lost
Broadcast
The Harvester Returns
Fireside
No Plan
Reveal/ The Escape
Hydrobot Attack
Farewell
Marcus Enters Skynet
A Solution
Serena
Final Confrontation
Salvation
"
Rooster" by
Alice In Chains[
edit] Lawsuit
In March 2009, producer
Moritz Borman filed a lawsuit against the Halcyon Company, seeking $160 million. Borman, who had arranged the transfer of the Terminator rights to Halcyon in May 2007, stated the company's two managers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek had "hijacked" the production and refused to give him his $2.5 million share of the production. Borman alleged budget overruns were the reasons Anderson and Kubicek did not pay him and that they had $1 million in debt.
[78] Nevertheless, an "amicable" resolution was reached a month later.
[79][
edit] Release
The film will be released in the U.S. on May 21, 2009 with Warner Bros. setting the American premiere on May 14, 2009 at the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in
Hollywood.
[80] Elsewhere,
Sony Pictures Entertainment will be releasing the film in most overseas territories on different dates on June. One exception is
Mexico, however, because of the
swine flu outbreak in the country, which forced Sony to push the release date to July 31, 2009.
[81]It is rated PG-13 by the
Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language, unlike the previous R-rated films.
[82] The decision was made to rate the film PG-13 after agreeing to cut out a shot of Marcus stabbing a thug with a screwdriver, as McG felt disallowing the young audience due to that one shot was unfair. He also deleted a topless scene for Moon Bloodgood because "It was a soft moment between a man and a woman that was designed to echo the
Kelly McGillis/
Harrison Ford moment in
Witness [but] in the end, it felt more like a gratuitous moment of a girl taking her top off in an action picture, and I didn't want that to convolute the story or the characters."
[83] The producers had expected the rating because of the modern leniency towards violence in PG-13 films, such as
Live Free or Die Hard.
[51]In addition to the
novelization by
Alan Dean Foster, a prequel novel entitled From the Ashes by
Timothy Zahn was released.
[84][85] IDW Publishing released a four-issue prequel comic, as well as an adaptation.
[86] It follows Connor rallying together the resistance in 2017, as well as examining normal people overcoming their intolerances to defeat Skynet.
[87] Playmates Toys,
Sideshow Collectibles, Character Options, and DC Unlimited will produce merchandise,
[88][89] while
Chrysler,
Pizza Hut, and
7-Eleven are among the
product placement partners.
[90][91] A
roller coaster will open at
Six Flags Magic Mountain.
[92]A
video game of the same name will coincide with the release of the film. The game will be a
third-person shooter.
[93] Christian Bale declined to lend his voice. The game will, however, feature the voices of Common and Moon Bloodgood as Barnes and Blair Williams, respectively.
[94] Rose McGowan will voice the character of Angie Salter, despite not appearing in the film.
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