Arnold Speaks About 'Salvation'!

The original Terminator, our main man, has broken his T4 silence. Apparently, Salvation Director, McG, gave Arnold a private screening of early footage from the movie, probably an extended version of what was shown at Comic Con. And at the moment, The Oak is revealing nothing at all and even seems a little uncertain about the direction this movie is going in.

"I still don't know how it will play out with this one. They showed me some footage, but I don't have a feel for the movie. I didn't see enough. I wasn't sure who the Terminator was. I don't know if there is one or if he's the star or the hero. These are the things that determine the success and how the strong the movie will be... I've seen very little footage so I don't really have a feel for it. I hope they do well, and I hope it is a huge hit. I do hope it creates a spectacle on the screen. That is what James Cameron created."

"With Batman and Terminator, those big movies, there's a certain expectation and if you don't live up to it, if the movie is not a 10, then the business will be soft. If ['Salvation'] is pushing it forward, it will be breaking records all the time. If [director McG] has the T4 and the kind of shots that has the audience thinking, 'Now how did he do that?' -- then it is 'Terminator' and you can blow everyone away and every record at the box office."

"There are such high standards and now there are always new standards being set for action," Schwarzenegger said. "You see that with 'Iron Man' and with the new Batman movie and that other film this summer, um, 'Wanted.' That was an excellent movie! There was this train coming down from a bridge, falling, and they're fighting inside the train car. Jesus, that is unbelievable that you can do that. To have the imagination to write it and the talent to shoot it and make it real on the screen. It's a whole new dimension."

Will Arnold be sad watching a Terminator movie that he's not in?

"No, the same thing happened with bodybuilding. Seven times I won the Mr. Olympia title, a record, no one had done that. Then someone else [South Carolina native Lee Haney] won it eight times. Do I sit and say, 'Darn it, my record is gone' or 'Darn, I'm not up there on stage.' No, because I've moved into other phases of my life. I moved on from bodybuilding into entertainment. Then I moved on from entertainment into a political life. Now this is the most exciting experience of my life. When this movie comes out, I won't be sitting there saying, 'Why can't I do that?' I hope it makes a lot of money and is very successful."

So still no answer or not on whether Arnold will be in the movie in any shape or form. But what he says is completely true. This movie will be under enormous scrutiny, not just by Terminator and Arnold fanatics but sci-fi fans and the rest of the general public. If McG doesn't give us what we want, something new and unseen in the other movies, it's going to flop at the box office. He's already communicated that he knows the stakes, but he exudes confidence whereas Arnold is not yet convinced.

Read the entire interview at LATimes.com.

GlobalArnold Staff