The role of the T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first three
Terminator films has reportedly been recast for the now filming fourth installment,
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
Ain't It Cool News points out an article from
The Clinton News Record that reveals that Austrian bodybuilder-actor
Roland Kickinger has been cast as the T-800 in
T4.
And the kicker about Kickinger? He actually portrayed the young Arnold in the A&E biopic
See Arnold Run, which chronicled the Austrian oak's rise from bodybuilder to movie star to California governor.
"There's a very strong scene in the film where John Connor for the first time meets the Terminator, and he doesn't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy," Kickinger told the paper. "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."
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
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