SAN DIEGO — There are two types of movie stars who work the pilgrimage to Comic-Con: Those world Health Organization arrive with hopes of acquiring eccentric credibility, and those wHO bring it themselves.
"I walked the floor today! Oh, it was so much fun," enthused Bryce Dallas Howard, wHO toured several booths at her second Con before duty pulled her away for "Terminator Salvation" interviews. "I was actually truly disappointed when I was here for 'Spider-Man [3]' that we didn't have sentence in the schedule to walk the floor. I think Topher [Grace] came several hours earlier with his friends so he could do it. What's so great about Comic-Con is it's the fans — it's people wHO have exhausted a substantial amount of time invested in admiring the stories, admiring the heroism, the sci-fi aspects of these stories."
What fans have known for long time — and Hollywood has only late begun to realize as it has minted stars like Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen and Guillermo del Toro — is that fans can buoy sniff a phony a mile away. Which is why Howard and the other talents daring to try and resuscitate the "Terminator" film franchise experience confident that they are among friends this week.
"I've been an enormous winnow of 'Terminator' [movies] since I was a little kid, because they were huge," insisted 19-year-old Anton Yelchin, wHO got a big recreate at the preview this week. "When I was at my most impressible, they were at their biggest."
"I love the franchise," Howard echoed. "I'm a total jerk about it."
(Er, speaking of which, DC Unlimited has confirmed that it will be producing a short letter of products for the film.)
But as much as Day Three of Comic-Con had the "Salvation" stars professing their love for the series, it as well had them stressing the many things that will be different when the film hits theaters next May.
"What we want to do is show the fans that we're staying true to the mythology of the first deuce, and so give them the war they cherished," explained Australian newcomer Sam Worthington. "The first deuce ['Terminator' films] in especial, because they are darker and grimier. If the first one's a horror movie and the irregular one's a great natural action movie, the third is a frolic. And so the fourth one, hopefully, is a visceral 'Black Hawk Down'-meets-'Mad Max' movie."
Whether it soars or sucks, the reboot of one of fandom's most love franchises ultimately rests with three letters: McG.
"McG is dead," cautioned the manager, who gained fame with his slick music videos and "Charlie's Angels" films. "This is a young beginning. I think every filmmaker reserves the right to develop and allow the past behind. ... This movie is largely influenced by the language of Stanley Kubrick, the language of Alfonso Cuaron and such contemporaries as David Fincher and Chris Nolan
"There aren't many cuts," he swore. "And it's clxxx degrees removed from any music-video energy."
"Christian Bale is the charles Herbert Best actor of his generation, and he's our John Connor," McG continued, comparing his challenge to that of Nolan when he and Bale (who was not at Comic-Con this week) set out to reboot the Bat. "I would never be so bold as to say we'll own that kind of success, but we aim to. I don't think anybody would regard what Chris did with 'Batman Begins' as 'Batman 5,' and certainly 'The Dark Knight' is not 'Batman 6.' They well-thought-of the heritage of the franchise, merely they began again. And that's what we require to do."
So, for those of you scoring at home: Bale is the new Eddie Furlong, Howard is the new Claire Danes, and Yelchin is the novel Michael Biehn; if you want to start factorization in the "Sarah Connor Chronicles" actors, well, we're gonna motivation a larger scorecard.
"I play Kyle Reese as a young valet," Yelchin explained. "Kyle is John Connor's father, he went to protect Sarah Connor, and this is the decorous of the hero."
"My character is the bridge between Kyle and John," aforesaid the buirdly Worthington, cast off as a possible Terminator named Marcus Wright. "I help them change and grow, and I'm the catalyst for where they go to."
"This happens in the future, post-judgment solar day," explained McG. "It happens in 2018, and we see the development of [Skynet] on its elbow room to construction the T-800, which was indeed the Arnold Schwarzenegger model. So we get to have a gravid deal of fun eyesight giant robots roaming around the landscape, trying to kill all humanity. And John Connor's doing his best to hold on, and there's an interesting character named Marcus Wright — wHO we don't know incisively what he's made taboo of."
"I was doing a scene with Christian Bale, and we're inside some underground bunker where it's dirty and freaky," Howard remembered, when asked around the "Salvation" scene that first made her feel like she really was in a "Terminator" photographic film. "I'm alleged to look up, take in him, and then go towards and hold him. I hadn't seen him in his costume yet, and they were about to do rehearsal. They were like 'Christian's here!' and he rounds the corner. I look up, and he's in his John Connor rig, with a machine artillery, a satchel . ... There was this voice in my head locution, 'I cannot believe what is occurrence right right away. I cannot believe that I am in a Terminator film, about to hold John Connor!'"
Ultimately, however, the one question the stars standard the to the highest degree this weekend centered about the geeks' desire to bridge the old dealership with the new: Will Arnold make a cameo in the movie, or not?
"Well, I'm not at liberty to answer that," McG foxily remarked at the whimsy of a Governator cameo, knowing that any filmmaker who doesn't have a returning champion typically moves quickly to deny and get past such rumors. "And possibly in non answering it, I've answered it."
If the big bozo is provision to continue true to his catch phrase and "Be back," it would make the Comic-Con crowd and the "Salvation" talents quite happy — especially since they're one and the same.
"These are the people I'm doing it for," Howard summed up, look over at the costumed crowd. "Because I'm one of them."
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