John Brancato schreef voor films als The Net, The Game en Terminator 3 en werkt momenteel aan de scripts voor Terminator 4 en Westworld; allebei films die oorspronkelijk bedoeld waren om Arnold Schwarzenegger in te laten schitteren.

Dit is echter niet meer het geval, en website LatinoReview sprak met de schrijver over beide projecten. Brancato wist onder andere te melden dat actrice Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet, U Turn, Terminator 3) een rol zal spelen in Terminator 4.

[eng]Can you talk about writing the Terminator story around his [Arnold's] model? Knowing, at best, he’d only be available for a cameo.

We did have to think about a new franchise character. He couldn’t carry the movies anymore. So that caused us to have, I think, a pretty novel approach about what the new terminator would be like. What directions would it go in. Again, they made me actually sign things that I would not leak. As much as I would like to brag about the script, I can’t really tell you.

What’s Westworld about?

Westworld is a remake of kind of a classic movie that was written by Michael Crichton in the seventies.

Back to T4, are Nick Stahl and Claire Danes resigned for the sequel?

I think they’re committed to have a part, if that’s something they [the studio] want to do. When they signed for T3 they had to be available for T4.

Talk about creating a new franchise character for Terminator 4.

To have a…I can’t talk about this. I’m sorry, I’d love to tell you but I can’t.[/eng]

Lees hier het hele interview.