McG Wants Robert Patrick Back for 'Terminator 5'

You know, perhaps when he was making Charlie's Angels movies and We Are Marshall, we weren't giving McG enough credit. After all, Terminator Salvation looks every bit the real deal, and wait 'till you hear his idea for bringing back the original T-1000, Robert Patrick for T5. "I talk to Robert Patrick with great regularity," McG admitted, before showing what's up his sleeve for a cinquel, which he's already attached to.

"I like the idea in a prospective next picture that you meet Robert Patrick the way he looks today, and he's a scientist that's working on improving cell replication so we can stay healthier and we can cure juvenile diabetes and all these things that once again sound like good ideas -- and once again live as an idealized expression of ourselves. So imagine seeing a sixty-year-old Robert Patrick and knowing, 'Holy shit! That's gonna be the T-1000 – who comes back perfect, lean and the whole thing.' I haven't concluded that, but Robert and I had dinner the other night and talked about it."

Yeah, that works for me. I'm sold.

Comments

[Asana]

Yes, this is shaping up to be the rightful bookend to my T1/T2 dvd set. Of course though, this assumes that the film doesn't turn out to be utter crap. In all fairness there's been many a film to have looked good at first glance only to fall flat once released. I'll keep my expectations low and hope there's no Bosley in the script somewhere.

[Kevin]

Well, if there is a Bosley, we know which one it won't be.

[Get The Big Picture]

Ouch. Nicely done.

[Anastasios-Antonios Toulkeridis]

There shouldn't be any T1000s in Salvation as it takes place in 2018 but there should be liquid metal models in T5