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11Sep2008

Arnold Seen on 'Terminator Salvation' Set

DateThursday, September 11, 2008 at 11:02AM
How about this fine how-do-you-do? Roland Kickinger, who has become Arnold Schwarzenegger 15 years after the movies no longer needed a new Arnold Schwarzenegger, was all set for his breakout role. Like Arnie, Roland is an Austrian bodybuilder, and he's even played the Schwarz in a TV movie. But this was different: This was Terminator.

Yes, in a strange twist of fate, the man who would be Arnold would be Arnold in next summer's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. That is, until now.

Arnold was seen on the set of T4 yesterday, and unlike his usual maneuvers in public, he was not evaluating wildfire or mudslide damage. No, Arnold was reportedly on set to record his voice for the new film. Why would he do that? Latino Review got that explanation from a well-placed source.

"The premise of Arnie's involvement is to have a fully rendered digital face of Arnie replacing the recently cast Roland Kickinger...It seems the Director Mc G 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 reference during post production. You have to remember, Arnold's commitments are preventing his return to the movie business and this seems the best logical way to ensure his involvement."

So it's, "Hello, Roland. Stand there for a second while we see if we can impose Pre-Roland's face over yours. What's that? No, Roland. Coffee is for the real actors."

Poor guy.

So there's Arnold on set being all chummy with Batman, laying down his voice tracks so the effects whiz kids can match the dialogue to an old picture of Arnie's face. I mean, you wouldn't want his current face, would you?

As it is we kind of knew Arnold would be back in some limited capacity, and we had heard it would probably be a voiceover of some kind. But this is a bit of a slap in the face for ol' Roland Kickinger. The question is, is it really his face that's being slapped or the one being digitally slapped over it?

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment5 Comments |

Reader Comments (5)

I bet that wasn't in Kickinger's contract.

Why should he bother with acting now? In his shoes, I'd just mess around a bit, collect the money and buy an Arnie-mask for the next movie.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLengthy Johnson

Yeeeeey!!!
This is great for the movie but bad for Roland... At the end, Arnie is the only Terminator, end of story.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBJN

This makes no sense... ADR isn't done on location/set... It's done in a studio where they loop the playback on speakers and a monitor and record the dialogue in a soundproof booth. The voice over artist doesn't have to spend any time on set. Arnie is probably just checking out the production and maybe providing some input on the Terminator character.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterRubin Safaya

Very interesting, as Arnie also had his own voice over-dubbed/removed in an early movie...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterIrony

the above comment suck balls

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterirony is a fag

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