REACTION: McG sizes up 'Terminator Salvation' as an origin movie ... that seems more like a prequel?

Director Joseph McGinty Nichol elaborated on known "Terminator Salvation" plot details on Feb. 8 at the New York City ComicCon, saying that it is essentially an origin movie for most of the lead characters.

Christian Bale's John Connor progresses into the human resistance leader he is destined to become, SkyNet develops the famed Arnold Schwarzenegger T-800 model and Anton Yelchin's Kyle Reese feels as though he has to volunteer, but not yet go back in time to do his part to save humanity after seeing so many of his comrades' sacrifices.

Is this more of a prequel to "The Terminator" than it is an origin movie? Is it both?

Five minutes of footage later showed that John Connor went into hiding after the nuclear holocaust in 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines," later trying to contact members of the human resistance via a radio broadcast. He realizes about 15 years have passed when meeting a young Kyle Reese.

The footage also showed that John Connor's claims about the future cause him to come into conflict with the human resistance's official leader, Michael Ironside's skeptical General Ashdown.

Imagine an intense Bale-interpreted John Connor channeling his mother's behavior while in an insane asylum going up against a hardened military officer portrayed by the actor who was once General Sam Lane on "Smallville" and voiced Darkseid in "Superman: The Animated Series."

McG further revealed how close "Terminator Salvation" might be to its 1984 predecessor, saying Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor and Schwarzenegger could yet be in the movie in some form and that he has been in contact with Robert Patrick, who portrayed a T-1000 model in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day," and Michael Biehn, who portrayed an adult Kyle Reese in "The Terminator."

Biehn would not necessarily fit in any capacity.

A fews shots in the dark are that McG wants the film to begin with a Sarah Connor voice-over, Schwarzenegger's face to be superimposed on Roland Kickinger's body and Patrick to be a random resistance fighter caught by SkyNet harvesters.

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