Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I really like Jonathan Mostow as a filmmaker, but I hated TERMINATOR 3 with a passion. That movie felt so far removed from James Cameron's films... it felt so hollow and cheesy and flat... I saw it in the theater when it first came out and tried to give it another shot on cable, but I just can't bring myself to watch it again.

That said, as much as a McG TERMINATOR movie doesn't sound appealing to me, I'm loving the direction he's going with the cast. Christian Bale as John Conner in a trilogy of Future War Terminator movies really gets my geek juices flowing. Not only does that guarantee a level of quality, it also gives hope that the script was strong enough to attract Bale (considering he could probably take the paycheck on any number of other projects if he wanted to).

Now it looks like James Cameron has talked to McG and suggested Sam Worthington, star of Cameron's own AVATAR, as one of the co-leads. And McG, smartly, took his advice. It looks like Worthington will join the film as a character named Marcus.

All that plus McG saying he's looking for a James Brolin type to play the skin-on Terminator gives me a lot of hope for this project. Who knows if he'll actually get Brolin, but I like that he's going the exact opposite of that horrible Sarah Conner TV show... no 'roided out male model terminators, please...

What do you folks think?