By NY Times / May 4, 2009“Terminator Salvation,” the fourth and latest film in the “Terminator” franchise, is the first to devote much of its screen time to a landscape in ruins.
It's set in 2018, 14 years after Judgment Day, that apocalyptic moment when Skynet, the artificial intelligence system created to defend the United States from attack, became self-aware and launched nuclear bombs to destroy the human race. Once again, John Connor is the film's hero (this time played by Christian Bale) as he tries to lead the resistance against the machines and the cyborg assassins that they have created called terminators. As he began developing the vision for the film, the director, McG (“Charlie's Angels,” “We Are Marshall”), spoke to researchers at the California Institute of Technology and futurists to discuss what a world after nuclear destruction might look like. “I wanted it to feel dirty and credible,” he said. “I was very influenced by 'Alien,' 'The Road Warrior' and 'Children of Men,' most particularly.”
To sketch out the details of the landscape and solidify the film's look, McG hired the production designer Martin Laing. A long-time collaborator of James Cameron, the creator of the franchise and director of the first two films, Laing had a firm grasp of the Terminator world. “I used to pass the model of the Terminator, the T-800, that James Cameron has in his office on a daily basis,” he said. “And on occasion, I had to glue the toe back on it because it always used to get kicked off.”
For “Terminator Salvation,” Laing sketched designs for 10 new models of Terminators and drafted paintings of the scenes that would eventually come to life on location in New Mexico.
To sketch out the details of the landscape and solidify the film's look, McG hired the production designer Martin Laing. A long-time collaborator of James Cameron, the creator of the franchise and director of the first two films, Laing had a firm grasp of the Terminator world. “I used to pass the model of the Terminator, the T-800, that James Cameron has in his office on a daily basis,” he said. “And on occasion, I had to glue the toe back on it because it always used to get kicked off.”
For “Terminator Salvation,” Laing sketched designs for 10 new models of Terminators and drafted paintings of the scenes that would eventually come to life on location in New Mexico.
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