By personal recommendation from TERMINATOR creator James Cameron, Sam Worthington has been cast by McG for TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS.

The Australian actor who has been working on AVATAR with Cameron for most of the last 12 months, will play the role of Marcus, ‘central figure’ in the first of a new trilogy that begins after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust.

Worthing becomes the second actor cast after Christian Bale nabbed the role of John Connor. Josh Brolin we heard previously was the director’s choice for the role of The Terminator but we have nothing official on that front just yet.

So Cameron has some input on the new TERMINATOR franchise after all. He famously kept himself very distanced from the last movie a few years back and wanted nothing to do with the direction they were taking but phone calls to McG this time around would suggest he is far more interested in this new take on the material.

That’s gotta be a positive. I wonder if he has read the script, which really can’t be as bad as we thought when you see some of the names involved in the picture.

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