Well it sucks to be actor Roland Kickinger if today’s unconfirmed reports over at Latino Review are to be believed. Only a few months ago, the bodybuilder got his big break in the film industry by landing the role of the T-800 in Terminator Salvation, essentially playing the Arnold Schwarznegger model from the original films but I just wonder if he knew this would be there plan all along.
It’s a shame that they are doing this. Hasn’t the Bond and the Batman franchises taught Warner Bros. that just because one actor played a role and made it a pop icon figure on screen, doesn’t necessarily mean other guys wouldn’t be able to do it if given the chance.
“…I have varous contacts in WB and from what i’ve been told the fans are in for a treat. The premise of Arnie’s involvement is to have a fully rendered digital face of Arnie replacing the recently cast Roland Kickinger (The Younger version of Arnie). It seems the Director McG will in no doubt try all he can to ensure the Governator has some sort of involvement and as a result Arnold was on set providing key ADR (Voice over) for the visual effects guys…”
To back up their claims and accompany the above photo comes actual video footage from when Arnie and Christian Bale met on what is supposedly the set of Terminator Salvation, possibly the day when Arnie contributed his voice work.
So it will be Kickinger doing the hard, physical work and then Arnie’s face awkwardly mapped over his, sprouting out the dialogue?
I still can’t fully believe this to be true, it just sounds so messy and unnecessary. Maybe McG should have taken note of J.J. Abrams, and left Arnie from the movie just like how William Shatner was left out of Star Trek.
More on this as we get it.
Discuss: Kickinger as the Terminator but with Arnie’s voice, does that not sound like a disaster just waiting to happen? If you had a choice, would you rather that Arnie was NOT in this new direction?
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This could well be the final nail in the coffin for this franchise, as regards big screen at least.
T3 was a mess because it concentrated far too much on the fact “Ah-nuld” was in it, and trying to make cheap jokes about him and the Terminator character. Bringing him back into this one, again allows the chance for this to happen.
I always had my reservations about McG being involved, and now I’m beginning to feel more and more right to be worried.
Everyone who I have heard from around me who has seen the trailer says a Terminator without Arnold is not interesting or worth seeing. I think that is ridiculous and I also think its ridiculous to think that McG or the studio wouldn’t in some way put him in the film but this is too much. I was actually really looking forward to seeing a guy get a big break in his career and a fresh new terminator to get behind but sadly if this is true it will thoroughly detract from what was looking fairly promising.
One: The whole speculative issue is poorly hinged on A FALLACIOUS STATEMENT
{Quoting from that anyonymous source, “Arnold was on set providing key ADR (Voice over) for the visual effects guys”}
Two: The whole speculated scheme of utilizing Kickinger’s acting/movements YET superimposing the voice & facial likeness of Schwarzenegger IS DEMORALIZINGLY UTILITARIAN in my humble yet totally debased opinion.
In actuality,
I couldn’t even start rationalizing the info coming from that unnamed tipster who utters
“Arnold was on set providing key ADR (Voice over) for the visual effects guys”
MAINLY BECAUSE I HAVE FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE related to ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) in both local and international Television and Film ventures.
Suffice it to say that
TV/FILM MAKERS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD ONLY CONDUCT ADR DURING POST-PRODUCTION.
That having been said, I believe it is but widespread inevitable knowledge that FILMING PRECEDES POST-PRODUCTION.
AND TERMINATOR SALVATION HASN’T EVEN REACHED THE END OF THE FILMING STAGE.
If the quoted portions above were an EVIDENCE in a pseudo-COURT PROCEEDING (with me as the pseudo-lawyer), the whole statement then has reasonable doubt thereby rendering the whole case as devoid of credibility already.