someguy
05-28-2009, 03:21 PM
He's not entirely responsible and I know people enjoyed it, but CHUD has an article out explaining everything that went wrong with the production. The article makes it look like Bale had a good hand in ruining the original version of Salvation, the other major factor being the leaked ending.
To sum up what the article says, the original script intended for John Connor to have only 3 or so minutes of screentime. Bale was approached to play Marcus be he wanted to play Connor instead which resulted in a complete overhaul of the script that beefed up his role considerably. These rewrites were happening on set also and ended up making Reese's character get cut down significantly. If you know the original ending, you can see why it impacted things. You can read the full summary at the link below, but be aware that there are HUGE SPOILERS for Salvation. I briefly summed it up here for people who don't want to know the full details in case they still want to see it.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/19577/1/EXCLUSIVE-WHAT-WENT-WRONG-WITH-TERMINATOR-SALVATION/Page1.html
From the sounds of it this movie was screwed up from the beginning. The original script sounds bad, but rewriting everything on the spot to beef up Bale's role makes almost everyone in charge of the production look bad. If it ends up failing at the box office badly then this will probably be seen as a disaster for WB.
To sum up what the article says, the original script intended for John Connor to have only 3 or so minutes of screentime. Bale was approached to play Marcus be he wanted to play Connor instead which resulted in a complete overhaul of the script that beefed up his role considerably. These rewrites were happening on set also and ended up making Reese's character get cut down significantly. If you know the original ending, you can see why it impacted things. You can read the full summary at the link below, but be aware that there are HUGE SPOILERS for Salvation. I briefly summed it up here for people who don't want to know the full details in case they still want to see it.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/19577/1/EXCLUSIVE-WHAT-WENT-WRONG-WITH-TERMINATOR-SALVATION/Page1.html
From the sounds of it this movie was screwed up from the beginning. The original script sounds bad, but rewriting everything on the spot to beef up Bale's role makes almost everyone in charge of the production look bad. If it ends up failing at the box office badly then this will probably be seen as a disaster for WB.