Christian Bale’s Original Terminator 4 Role Was WAY Better
Before Christian Bale signed on to play John Connor in Terminator: Salvation he was offered the role of Marcus Wright, a much more fitting Terminator role for the mercurial star. Christian Bale did not have an easy time with the Terminator franchise. Leaked audio of the actor berating a colleague on the set of Terminator: Salvation outshined the sequel’s pre-release hype while the belated franchise follow-up received largely negative reviews upon its eventual arrival.
Terminator: Salvation also underperformed financially and earned the ire of former series star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who rather bluntly said the sequel “sucked.” To make matters worse, Bale’s comments on Schwarzenegger’s original T-800 alienated a lot of franchise fans, resulting in an altogether disastrous tenure for the actor in the blockbuster franchise. However, it didn’t have to go so badly.
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Bale was originally approached to play Marcus Wright in Terminator: Salvation, but the actor was more interested in the part of John Connor. However, Bale is a far better fit for Wright, the hero who doesn’t realize he’s actually an android until the twist ending of Terminator: Salvation. American Psycho proved Bale could play uncanny, vaguely inhuman antiheroes, giving Marcus the robotic and not-quite-human affectations that eventual star Sam Worthington’s performance doesn’t attempt at all. While McG’s darker director’s cut of Terminator: Salvation may have improved on some of the movie’s set-pieces, even this version of the movie didn’t have a Marcus who felt like a melding of man and machine. Bale could have provided that semi-human soul for the sequel to center around if he had chosen
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