McG: 'Terminator' Will Be Compromise-Free

"I just saw 'The Dark Knight,' and I thought it was a work of art, I thought it was immaculate," he said, according to Dark Horizons. "I thought it was made compromise-free. I don't think Chris [Nolan], had to go, "Ah, damn it, if I could just do what I want to do, and get that R that I want, the picture would be better. So I am saying, I'm not afraid of a PG13 rating, at all. We are not rooting for anything, and I'm not going to let the fan base down trying to target a rating. The only people that would give us a hard time bout that would indeed be the studios, which you have to respect because they put a lot of money behind the making of the film."

The Terminator franchise certainly has a lot of money backing up its expansion with a full new trilogy in the works and a television series starring Lena Headey. Yet despite having meetings with "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" show runner Josh Friedman, this movie won't have any connection to the television series. And, the movie will not only draw on elements from the previous films of the franchise, but other post-apocalyptic drama's. One such example is "Children Of Men."

"I'm tremendously influenced by 'Children of Men,' hats off to that picture, I think it's fantastic and I hope more people get a chance to see it," he continued. "But by the same token this isn't designed to be an art picture, this is a picture designed to be shared the world over. So you gotta find that balance between that artistic take and that artistic look and what's right for a film designed to be seen by a great many people around the world. I must say we're very, very pleased with the way that film looks and feels. You guys be the judge, you just saw it, I'm hoping it has that grit that I speak of.

And to that end, a lot of the cyberdine hardware from the previous film's won't be present in this story. Instead, John Connor will experience more mechanical villains and a slight re-juggling of the timelines.

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