Regisseur Joseph McGinty hat doch des öfteren gesagt, dass er mit James Cameron gesprochen habe und er die Produktion von T4 gutheißen würde. Nun, jetzt ist rausgekommen dass das nicht ganz stimmte. Cameron sprach neulich mit dem Magazin E Online und hatte folgendes zu sagen:
"[T4] could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant. Sam Worthington is in the Avatar and the new Terminator and he likes the script, but I never saw it. There was no blessing involved."
Dh, JC wusste nur dass Sam Worthingtin das Script mochte, er zieht aber ganz bewusst das Gerücht zurück, dass er Terminator Salvation gutheißen würde. Das muss ja nicht heißen dass T4 ihm letztendlich nicht gefällt, allerdings ist jetzt dieses gute Anfangsgefühl weg, dass der Terminator-Erfinder gut drüber zu reden hatte (im Gegensatz zu T3).
UPDATE
James Cameron hat sich nochmal dazu geäußert und folgendes gesagt: er habe damals mit McGinty telefoniert und der habe ihn gefragt, ob er T4 in irgendeiner Form unterstützen wolle. Cameron sagte "jau, schick mir mal das Script". Hat er aber nicht, weswegen es zu nem Missverständnis kam. Heute sagt er, er kenne auch nur das Material aus dem ersten Trailer und will sich davon noch keine Meinung bilden. Sein Freund Sam Worthington, der ja in T4 Marcus spielt und auch in seinem Avatar die Hauptrolle hat, soll ihm aber gesagt haben, dass T4 bisher ganz gut aussähe.
"There's been some discussion at AICN and elsewhere of me rescinding my so-called blessing of T4 and that's not the case. The truth is there never was a blessing to rescind, and there's been some kind of misunderstanding between me and McG, perfectly innocent I believe. He asked me in a phone call when I was shooting in New Zealand earlier this year if I would be a supporter and creative participant in the new film. I said sure, send me the script and I'll give you my thoughts. And I warned him that free advice is usually worth what you pay for it. For whatever reason I never got the script and to date I haven't seen a foot of film other than what everybody's seen in the trailer, which is not enough to form an opinion. So I have zero basis for supporting or dissing the film. As I said in an interview, for all I know it could be a masterpiece or it could be a big steaming pile. I think all people heard was the steaming pile part and concluded I was against the film, which I'm not. In fact, it might be very good, an opinion based solely on what Sam Worthington has shared with me. He's nobody's fool when it comes to material, and has absolutely the lowest bullshit quotient of anyone I know, and he has repeatedly told me that he reckons the film is going to be good. I know him to be very critical (in a healthy way) of his own work, and an actor who always aspires to excellence, so I know he wouldn't praise the film if he didn't feel it.
Obviously I can't give my blessing (whatever that means anyway ) to the film completely blind. But I'm predisposed to be supportive based on Sam's involvement and his judgment, because I believe in him. So there you have it. Let's all keep our fingers crossed that it's not a steaming pile.'''"