WHAT WENT WRONG WITH TERMINATOR SALVATION?
surfaced there were two competing reports: while Aint It Cool had Bale tipped to play Connor, we had him tipped to play a Terminator. As you can see both are correct; for a little while people involved in the film were assuming that Bale was going to let go of the Connor idea and move over to the Marcus role, but he had something else up his sleeve: massive rewrites to beef up the John Connor role.
After seeing the movie with Doug and Dave, I couldn’t help thinking about what might have been. The movie, in my humble opinion, was not as bad as the reviews had suggested, but it certainly could have been better. In the months prior to the film’s release there were rumours leaked online about a controversial earlier draft of the script — existing prior to Christian Bale’s involvement with the film — which sounded far superior to the one that ended up on the big screen, and now chud.com has the full story: The Terminator Salvation you saw on movie screens this weekend was not always the Terminator Salvation that was meant to be. Like in the franchise itself, history has been changed, and the original script for Terminator Salvation ended up getting gutted. You can still see the outlines of that script in the current film, but the specifics that might have made Terminator Salvation if not better at least more interesting are gone. To read more check out the rest of the article at chud.
