According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Christian Bale, who director McG had to convince to be in
Terminator Salvation, ended up having to work with the director to rewrite the screenplay in order to accommodate the actor's burgeoning stardom.
Initially, McG wanted Bale to the play the role of Marcus Wright in the film. However Bale wanted to play the role of John Connor who had been a central character in the other
Terminator movies. In the original drafts of
Terminator Salvation Connor's role was smaller.
The director reports that he and Bale "worked day and night" to rewrite the screenplay with Bale.
"A lot of the work was integrating (Connor) into scenes ... and having that feel integral and sensible, as opposed to grafted on just because there was a star in the part," stated John Brancato, the
Terminator Salvation screenwriter.
Initially the character of Marcus Wright (played in the film by Sam Worthington) was an executed man who lends his body to science, and comes back to life when machines take over the world.
In the current film, both Wright and Connor get equal time on screen.
Terminator Salvation comes to theaters May 21 from Warner Bros. Pictures.
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About they wanted him to play Marcus Wright, but Bale told them "No, but if you want me, i'll play John Connor' and that Bale didn;'t like the fact that John Connors role was so small, so they made his character a bigger role. But initially Marcus is the main character
An actor does this so as NOT to bring focus to the aspect of him writing, and keep the emphasis on STORY!
BALE has done the same thing. He was offered the 'title' role of THE TERMINATOR, but turned it down for the sake of improving the movie!
When has he been part of some mediocore shit? even if a movie of his was bad...it cannot be called 'generic'!
i doubt very much BALE cares about screen time, he's getting paid the agreed price. I believe he cares about the CHARACTER and STORY, and i'm glad to hear they did this!
Looking forward to the film very much!