{"id":1215,"date":"2007-11-21T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/christian-bale-in-terminator-4-but-as-who\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:50:00","slug":"christian-bale-in-terminator-4-but-as-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/christian-bale-in-terminator-4-but-as-who.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale in Terminator 4 &#8230; but as who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R0TzqZ46vqI\/AAAAAAAAA2A\/MIphp-0aI6c\/s1600-h\/rescuedawn-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R0TzqZ46vqI\/AAAAAAAAA2A\/MIphp-0aI6c\/s400\/rescuedawn-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/34867\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a> says <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/new-world-interviews-are-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christian Bale<\/a> will play John Connor in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/newsbites-tron-galactica-darkness.html#5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins<\/a><\/i>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chud.com\/index.php?type=news&amp;id=12655\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">CHUD.com<\/a> says he will play one of the Terminators, instead.  Who to believe?  Who to believe?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If Bale is playing John Connor, then my first reaction to this news is to wonder if Bale, who is currently making only <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/aaron-eckhart-to-star-in-dark-knight.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his second Batman movie<\/a>, really needs another action-hero franchise right now.  Then again, producer James Middleton did say <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/but-will-it-have-cyborg-chariot-race.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a couple months ago<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/new-terminator-trilogy-is-good-to-go.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the new <i>Terminator<\/i> trilogy<\/a> won\u2019t really be <i>about<\/i> John Connor, but will rather be about a new character whose story is influenced by John Connor much the same way that <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/depictions-of-mary-in-ben-hur-movies.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Judah Ben-Hur\u2019s story<\/a> was influenced by Jesus Christ.  So maybe this would be little more than an extended cameo.<\/p>\n<p>If Bale is playing one of the Terminators, on the other hand, then that could provide a nice contrast to his work as Batman \u2014 kind of like how Ian McKellen played the heroic Gandalf in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> (2001-2003) while playing the villainous Magneto in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/tsotsi-director-to-helm-wolverine-spin.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X-Men<\/a><\/i> (2000-2006).<\/p>\n<p>And now, for some reason, I am recalling how Christian Bale starred in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009A40ES\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Psycho<\/a><\/i> (2000) \u2014 murderous and naked, just like a Terminator! \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,85126,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">immediately after<\/a> he played the Son of God in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000089760\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary, Mother of Jesus<\/a><\/i> (1999).  Versatile, this actor is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain\u2019t It Cool News says Christian Bale will play John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. CHUD.com says he will play one of the Terminators, instead. Who to believe? Who to believe? If Bale is playing John Connor, then my first reaction to this news is to wonder if Bale, who is currently making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian Bale in Terminator 4 ... but as who?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ain&#039;t It Cool News says Christian Bale will play John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. 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