Is Josh Brolin The New Terminator?

Along with the new television series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” which airs on Fox Monday nights, another film trilogy is on the horizon.

Director McG -- also executive producer for The CW series “Supernatural” -- has dropped tantalizing hints regarding the casting for the upcoming “Terminator Salvation” trilogy. Christian Bale will take up the role of John Connor and a new Terminator model will be introduced. However McG still remains coy about the cybernetic role.

“There’s guys out there like Russell Crowe and Eric Bana, who bring a good physicality, they do what they do, but I don’t know if they’re exactly right at the end of the day,” he said, according to Dark Horizons. “Josh Brolin is a very exciting actor -- we’ll see.”

Lately, Brolin has enjoyed critical acclaim and renewed stardom due to his role of Llewelyn Moss in the Coen brothers’ hard hitting film “No Country for Old Men” which is tipped to take home an Oscar or two later this month.

The new trilogy takes place after Judgment Day in the year 2019 and the first installment, “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins,” is set to bring the same realistic darkness to the screens as another popular franchise that will be flying to the screens in the summer.

“It’s very much in keeping what the studio has done with ‘Batman,’” he added. “We’re respectful of the first pictures in creating a new language, while honoring the mythology, and I felt it would be a great time to play upon some of the [Isaac] Asimov ideas, some of the Phillip K. Dick ideas. It felt like a good time to tell a story about humanity and what it means to make us all human.”

“Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins” is slated for a summer 2009 release.

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