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Kenny Basumatary
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PFCWallahs, Cast Your Terminators

I just came across one very very good piece of news, one more piece of good news and one really, really bad piece of news. The very very good news is James Cameron’s finally coming up with another film - Avatar, a sci-fi/action/adventure film scheduled to release in May 2009.

The other piece of good news is Christian Bale has signed on to restart the Terminator franchise with a movie titled Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The really, really bad news is that the director is going to be McG, the guy behind the extremely irritating Charlie’s Angels movies.

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There’s something in me that loves apocalyptic movies – Reign of Fire, Terminator 3, 28 Days Later, even The Day After Tomorrow. Terminator 3 was all about the action and less about the characters, unlike the classic first two, but I loved the ending. First time I watched it, my mind was already juggling possibilities for a fourth movie at hyper speed.

I can’t remember how many times I watched T2 when it came to video and even on TV. The special effects were groundbreaking for those days.
Arnold’s going to be busy canvassing for votes, I guess, so I just thought we’d have some fun discussing possible replacements. If PFCwallahs were to make Terminator 4, who would you cast as the two Terminators? Here’re a few ideas I had. I’m sure I’ve missed some very good ones. Let’s have your ideas too – put on the casting director hats!

‘GOOD GUY’ TERMINATOR
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Dwayne Johnson, The Rock – My first choice. I never got to see The Rock when he was in action in the WWE, except for the last season when he was playing the bad guy to Steve Austin, Goldberg and Hulk Hogan. Hell, he won’t even have to act much as the Terminator. We won’t see him doing any There Will Be Bloods or Brokeback Mountains, but he can sure hold his own in an action movie. Watch The Rundown (titled in India as Welcome to the Jungle); it’s a real fun timepass movie and it shows that The Rock actually has good comic timing. I liked him in Walking Tall as well. Physically, there’s nobody capable of filling Arnold’s humungous boots, but The Rock would make a very convincing Terminator.

Jason Statham – He’d not look too bad either, but his voice, I feel, would need replacement.

John Cena – Purely on the basis of a bulky physique and the ability to hold a stern expression. I haven’t seen The Marine, but I’ve seen enough of his WWE days to feel he’d look good in the part.

‘BAD GUY’ TERMINATOR
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Christian Bale – He has the stare – the cold, hard look that Robert Patrick also pulled off marvellously.

Jet Li 10 years ago – Same as Christian Bale. Plus he’d look so convincing while killing people.

Kevin Nash – Most people didn’t like The Punisher, but I thought some sequences were quite well handled. The standout scene is Kevin Nash versus Tom Jane. Nash is a 7 foot tall wrestler. His character in The Punisher is called the Russian and he just has one extended fight. Oh boy, what a fight that was! I’d recommend the movie just for that one badass battle. Nash would look simply unstoppable as a Terminator.

Javier Bardem – He’s already played a Terminator character though, and won an Oscar for it. No Country For Old Men. But think about it – he’s six and a half feet at least, I think.

Brad Pitt – He’d look cool. It’d be a great casting-against-type for him.

Leonardo DiCaprio – Think of him as a robotised version of killing machine Jason Bourne.

Mark Wahlberg – Spectacular with action. Efficient is the word I think of when Mark Wahlberg does action.

Josh Hartnett – Tall, good-looking and a magnificient voice. He gets my vote in terms of what a Terminator should sound like. Bardem’s got the greatest voice hands down, but he’s already blah blah blah…

And to round it off with a sensational bit of casting:

Hrithik Roshan – Perfect body and great eyes for a killer look. He’ll just need to move his facial muscles much less.

PS: I don’t know if anyone’s had this idea before, but if (God forbid) anyone thought of remaking Amar Akbar Anthony (which they definitely shouldn’t), the perfect cast would be Hrithik Roshan, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Harman Baweja.

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