Spotted: Crossing the WB lot in full costume, the other John Connor, Christian Bale. Here filming his take on the character (for the upcoming Terminator Salvation film) on one of the stages. No random run-ins with our John Connor, Thomas, who is also shooting on the lot today. That might result in a paradox of epic proportions…
Just a fun coincidence.
Very cool. I am so looking forward to Terminator Salvation. Will somehow have to come to grips with only one Reese boy in the story…
Ha, that’s pretty funny. ^_^
I still wonder how Kyle Reese’s brother Derek in Sarah Connor Chronicles will fit into the Terminator Salvation mythos.
Is there any existing licensing coordinaton or similar to avoid conflicting parts in the Terminator universe? Even though there may be parallell timelines I would love to see the story and TV series and the future story in the new movies work out without too much interference between the two so that they at the same time intertwine nicely. Time travel in the series is enough to wrap you head around. I just hope the new movies don’t screw that up too much.
With that said, can’t wait to see the movie and the rest of this season.
Haha! Geez, the meeting of the two John Connors might make a tear in the space/time continuum!
I’d choose Dekker over Bale any day.
“Haha! Geez, the meeting of the two John Connors might make a tear in the space/time continuum! :)”
Where’s the Doc when you need him?
being the purist that i am,
it is killing me that the film franchise is going to completely ignore the tv show.
how could you ignore Derek Reese and Cameron/Allison Young?
such exquisite characters that add so much depth and probing to the Terminator mythos.
either way, Christian Bale’s gonna kick ass, and here’s to the continued success of Josh Friedman’s awesome cereberal vision fueled by deep character/relational dynamics and McG’s fresh take on endoskeletons and humanity’s fate.
@ R:
I’m actually relieved that T4 has no relation to TSCC.
I honestly can’t see Thomas Dekker growing into Christian Bale.
Quick! Grab him and do some future scenes while he’s on the lot. Tell him it’s for The movie and not the tv show, so he dosen’t start asking questions about contracts and money.
>>I?m actually relieved that T4 has no relation to TSCC.
I honestly can?t see Thomas Dekker growing into Christian Bale.<<
It also makes it easier to ignore it if it sucks.
Hahaha, both rock. Christian Bale is a good actor (although I think he pretty much was owned in Dark Knight!!!). Maybe you can get Christian Bale to do like a two second walk-by part, like passing by John on the street or something, similar to what Arnold did with the Rock at the beginning of “Running Man.” Arnold was on the set for the day, and the Rock asked him if he wanted a short clip, viola, Arnie was in the movie for 3 seconds, lol. That’d be sweet if that happened on the show!
It does suck that T4 isn’t following the TV show, although I see how this would be hard if the story isn’t finished yet (the TV show that is).
Regarding the threads of T:tSCC and story line of Terminator Salvation, ComingSoon.net got to interview director McG during the weekend Terminator Salvation roadshow and this quote from McG caught my eye:
“Hats off to the third movie, but we paid attention to the first two pictures, and I’m buddies with Josh and everybody who runs ‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ but from my experience in one-hour episodic television, those guys are in the writers’ room banging out stories left, right and center and for us to chase those story threads, I think would be a disservice to our picture. We honor Judgment Day timing, we honor the 2029, we honor the coming of the T-800.”
And I can’t see Dekker turning out like Bale, either.
I can see Dekker turning into Bale. Quick someone grab McG and wrangler some footage away from him to use in our beloved show.
Christian Bale and Thomas Dekker on the same lot??!! Two worlds will collide!!
A possibility for a future episode? Perhaps! LOL! You be the judge.
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POP!!
John and Cameron turn around suddenly as a big sphere of bright light appears on a hillside. A lone, naked man stands up and strides purposefully down the hill towards them.
Cameron raises her gun in anticipation of a potential fight, and John just stands there rooted in place, too dumbstruck to move.
Christian Bale walks right up to this John Connor [Thomas Dekker]. Cameron lowers her gun and looks at Bale slightly bug-eyed.
Future JC: “John, I have an urgent message from the future!”
Current John Connor moves cautiously forward a step towards his future self. Christian Bale wacks him upside his head.
Current JC [grimacing and rubbing the back of his head tenderly] “Ow! What did you do that for?!”
Future JC: “That’s for being a moron.”
Christain Bale, shaking his head and rolling his eyes in disdain [you faintly hear him grumbling to himself and phrases like "dumbass" and "couldn't hit the broadside of a barn" are muttered], strides back up the hillside and disappears in a blinding flash of light.
Cameron looks over at a completely baffled John and smiles and pats him on the shoulder, condescendingly.
Current JC [turning to lightly glare at Cameron]: “Don’t look at me like that!”
Cameron turns and marches off in the opposite direction, but not before she smacks him playfully on the butt, and gives him one of her patented winks.
Cameron [with a sprinkling of tenderness and a dash of "pride in ownership" mixed in her voice]: “You may be a moron, but you’re MY moron.”
John, looking back up the hill, dutifully follows a second later and jogs up next to her.
Current JC: “If I’m such a colossal failure, then why are you still hanging around with me?”
Cameron [arching an eyebrow and giving him a devilish grin]: “Human or not, idiot or not… you end up looking like him.” [jabbing her thumb back towards the hill]
Quote - Dan Hitchman
“Cameron raises her gun in anticipation of a potential fight, and John just stands there rooted in place, too dumbstruck to move.”
You’ve complained the writers have dumbed down John Connor, made him whiney and inactive - and yet you do it in his first (re)action.
Guess it’s harder than it looks, huh?
T-Fan…
The above script, my dear fellow fan, is what is called a JOKE. J-O-K-E.
As in a “funny,” or satire.
As in using Frank Zappa’s song “Valley Girl” as Riley’s theme on TSCC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9aY7hXjGU
Like, whatever! LOL!!
I had not seen you post in 5 minutes, I thought you were gone.
Oh well.
Glad to hear the time continium (Or however you spell it) didn’t explode with the two Johns.
Did you see their stage? Man, all that prep and for only one day of shooting… (you know how it goes)
I missed seeing him Thursday, was too busying shooting, but caught sight of him yesterday
I can see Dekker’ John becoming Bale’s. The scene when John shaves his head in the bathroom and he has cuts all over his face, could be a young “Bale” to me easily. Dekker’s John just has to get ruffed up and dirty like “Bale” in T4 and it’s an easy transition. Dekker just looks a little too well groomed right now.
I will POOP IN MY PANTS WITH JOY if the TSCC writers and T4 - T6 writers can have their story lines maintain a basic continuity. The only thing that is needed to keep the two story line together is Cameron and Allison Young. If McG can honor the J-day timing, 2029, and the T-800, he can honor Cameron. Plus Summer is movie gold for Sci-Fi fans.
Considering the movie and the TV show are shooting in the same location, makes me think there MUST be some kind of secret shenanigans going on
I think Christian Bale makes a terrible John Connor… Not only does he look all wrong, but he’s got a speech impediment and his voice is too “grr, I talk in a deep voice ’cause I think it makes me sound tough”… It’s retarded… Not to mention ALL the other depictions of john connor have him with sandy-blonde looking hair and more “smart” than “beefy”… Christian Bale is just a REALLY bad idea.