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1.<\/a> Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed that he may very well appear in Terminator Salvation<\/a><\/i> when it opens May 21 \u2026 but because the Governor of California is busy with other things at the moment, he has done no acting for the new film. Rather, his performance will be an entirely digital creation<\/a>, based on a body-cast mold that was made for the first movie in 1984. If you ask me, this is all for the good, as Schwarzenegger\u2019s physical appearance did change somewhat<\/a> over the course of the first three films \u2014 which, when you think about it, is a little odd, since all three of his characters were supposed to have come off an assembly line at the exact same time in the future. \u2014 Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/i>, Variety<\/a><\/i>, WENN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Robert Rodriguez is developing a \u201creboot\u201d of the Predator<\/i> franchise called Predators<\/i>. The original film came out in 1987 and spawned either one sequel or three, depending on whether you count the Alien Vs. Predator<\/a><\/i> cross-overs (2004-2007) as part of the original canon. At any rate, 20th Century Fox has already given the new film a release date, namely July 7, 2010. \u2014 IESB.net<\/a>, Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a> (x2<\/a>), Variety<\/a><\/i>, ComingSoon.net<\/a><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Leonard Nimoy<\/a> provided the voice of Galvatron in the animated Transformers<\/i> movie that came out back in 1986. So naturally, the guys who\u2019ve been writing the live-action movies<\/a> want him to come back and voice one of the characters in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/a><\/i>, which comes out June 24. And since those guys also happened to write the upcoming Star Trek<\/a><\/i> movie, they\u2019ve had a chance to talk to Nimoy about this personally. What makes the whole thing even stranger and even more inter-connected is that Nimoy\u2019s wife, Susan Bay, is a cousin to Transformers<\/i> director Michael Bay \u2014 but the director says he hasn\u2019t approached Nimoy about doing the part directly yet; for now, he prefers to let his mother serve as a go-between. \u2014 Sci Fi Wire<\/a>, MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Photos from the Vancouver set of Tron 2.0<\/a><\/i> have begun to pop up on the internet. Meanwhile, a number of blogs recently discovered this story<\/a> that the Vancouver Sun<\/i> ran three months ago, which claims that Tron 2.0<\/i> has a budget of $300 million. That figure was later revealed to be in Canadian dollars, but even so, that still comes to something like $240 million in American money. That seems like an awful lot to spend on a sequel to a movie<\/a> that came out 27 years ago and didn\u2019t even rank among the Top 20 films at the box office that year<\/a>. \u2014 SlashFilm<\/a>, Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a>, TrekMovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Rooney Mara, sister of Kate Mara, will play the female lead in next year\u2019s \u201cre-imagining\u201d of A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/a><\/i> (1984). \u2014 Bloody-Disgusting.com<\/a>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

6.<\/a> Eric Heisserer, who did some work on the Nightmare on Elm Street<\/i> script, has been hired to do a rewrite \u201cfrom scratch\u201d of the prequel to The Thing<\/a><\/i> (1982). The previous draft was by Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> producer Ronald D. Moore<\/a>. \u2014 Bloody-Disgusting.com<\/a>, Eric Heisserer<\/a><\/p>\n

7.<\/a> New Line Cinema is developing a feature film version of the 1980s TV series MacGyver<\/i>. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"