New Terminator Salvation Pics

A whole stack of very cool concept art from the upcoming Terminator Salvation film fell onto the internet today. This is the film starring Christian Bale as John Connor with proper Terminators that are mean and don't have nervous breakdowns like certain Terminators on a certain TV show do.

The designs stick pretty close to James Cameron's original designs with the "old model" T600 terminator looking very cool indeed. The motorbike design concept is just too stupid for me to even start thinking about commenting on while the giant robot is cool but ultimately silly.

Still looking forward to the film though which is due for release mid 2009.

While we're talking concept art and movies there are a few new Watchmen posters out today showing some of the characters in their outfits.

Terminator Salvation Stars Release Candidate Terminators

Joblo has this cool poster image of the T-600 terminator that will star in the new Terminator: Salvation flick due out May next year (June is Australia). Yes, I said T-600, not to be confused with the Sony Ericsson T600. This is the model BEFORE the T-101/T-80/T-800/T850 Arnie model and apparently it has some issues.

I've seen in promotional materials that the skin on the T-600 looks terribly plastic and word on the street is it just blows off in chunks revealing the bulkier-than-Arnie's endoskeleton underneath.

This helps us figure out the time setting for the new film in that it's obviously before John Connor found and used the time machine to send Kyle Reese back to stop Arnie... because Arnie hasn't been made yet.

This also might explain the no-comment comments from McG about Arnie's involvement in the film off-camera where some people guessed he was being scanned in 3D. McG did however say that the film will end in a cliffhanger, obviously preparing for a follow-up.

Maybe we'll get to see the scene that was originally meant for T2 where John Connor breaks into the T-800 factory then into the time machine facility to send off Kyle. I've always wanted to see a production line of Arnies.

Interested tidbit, the time machine design meant for the un-filmed scene was recycled for use in Contact with the spinning rings crossing over each other.