Where to watch Terminator Salvation (2009)

Trivia & production notes

• Director McG had previously worked with actor Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2, before signing on to direct Terminator Salvation.
• James Cameron, who co-created the Terminator series, met with McG during development and drew a parallel to his own experience directing Aliens after Ridley Scott's Alien.
• Jonathan Nolan did uncredited on-set rewrites after Christian Bale signed on, with McG characterizing Nolan as the lead writer despite him not receiving official screenplay credit due to WGA rules.
• The original ending featured John Connor being killed, with his skin grafted onto Marcus's cybernetic body, but Warner Bros. scrapped this entire third act after the ending leaked online.
• Novelist Alan Dean Foster completely rewrote his novelization after realizing the shooting script differed significantly from the one he had initially been given.
• In early script drafts, John Connor was a secondary character, with a new protagonist designed to be influenced by Connor rather than centered on him.
• The film's original title was Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, but this was shortened during filming.
• Production rights to the Terminator series transferred from producers Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar to the Halcyon Company in May 2007, with the purchase financed by a loan from hedge fund Pacificor.
• A legal dispute between MGM and Halcyon subsidiary T Asset over distribution rights kept the project in limbo for months, ultimately resulting in MGM retaining a 30-day right of first refusal for financing and distributing the fifth Terminator film.
• Warner Bros. paid $60 million for U.S. distribution rights while Sony Pictures paid over $100 million for international distribution rights across most territories.

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