Yelchin in talks for Terminator role

March 19, 2008 With production scheduled to start in early May, Paul Haggis also has been in talks about coming on board to work on the sequel's script. Christian Bale will play John Connor in the time-traveling third sequel to the 1984 sci-fi action film, produced by the Halcyon Co. and set for a Warner Bros. release in summer 2009. Reese, one of the children who survived a machine-driven nuclear holocaust, befriends Marcus (Sam Worthington), an early edition of the Terminator cyborg played in previous films by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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