The Original Killing Machine

A new little tidbit about Terminator Salvation has hit the web. TheArnoldFans.com recently caught up with the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 2009 Arnold Classic. He confirmed that he’s seen a “rough cut” of the highly anticipated film . In the interview, Schwarzenegger makes it pretty clear that he’s reluctant to take part in the film and indicates that he isn’t too thrilled director McG has been invoking his name to promote the film.

Here is what had he had to say:

“I have seen the movie, but I have not seen it as a finished product yet. I have not seen it yet with the Terminator special effects and some of the sound and the music is not in there yet and so on. So I really cannot comment on it, what the movie will be like as a finished product. There’s a rule that you never talk about a movie unless you have seen the finished product. But you know as I said to the director when they began that I wish them the best of luck, that I’m happy that they move forward with the franchise, I am very happy with where I am with my profession as the governor and they should try to find a way of doing a story that does not include me at all, not even one single shot in it. I don’t believe in that. To kind of have them go out and promote the movie and say you know Arnold is in the movie and everyone thinks that I’m the Terminator and in fact you only see one second of me in there and so I don’t think thats the right thing to do. And you know that’s the danger of that, and that’s why I feel reluctant to be part of the movie in the first place. So it doesn’t get promoted that way.”

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