McG talks about an alternate ending to the Terminator installment he wished he kept.
Terminator Salvation is the fourth installment of the action-sci-fi franchise, and one of the less acclaimed.
It was not reviewed kindly and caused the franchise to be rebooted with Terminator Genysis in 2015.
“We got so close to nailing that thing right,” he said.
“We brought in Jonah Nolan.
We had Christian Bale.
And we tried to honor the Terminator faithful and James Cameron himself.
I got a lot right in that movie but didnt quite stick the landing.”
“We were testing it in secret, on the Warner Bros. lot.
And I really thought we had the tiger by the tail up to that point.
And it’s not that the movie tanked.
It just didn’t do as great as we wanted it to.
And it wasn’t as fondly considered as we wanted it to be at the time.
I would have stuck with the dark ending that we photographed that got cut.”
McG still looks back on the film fondly but feels like he did his best all things considering.
“There’s a lot about that film that people enjoyed.
And, technically, we pushed some things forward,” he said.
“you could’t have a better actor than Christian Bale.
We tried to stack the deck.
I tried, Terminator faithful, I tried.”
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