James Cameron Clarifies T4 Dispute with McG, New Footages

Well okay, maybe it’s not really a “dispute”, but there does seem to be a bit of miscommunication between James Cameron’s camp and McG’s (re: the people making “Terminator Salvation” without Cameron’s input). About two months ago, Cameron made it clear that he had never given his “approval” of McG’s T4 movie, as McG has been going around claiming, most notably at the recent Comic Con, something that, no doubt, made the younger director and the T4 producers red in the face. Now, Cameron has clarified his comments about T4 a bit to the boys at Aint-it-Cool-News.com, and while it doesn’t say he was mistaken when he originally said T4 could be great or a “steaming pile of” you know what, he does make it clear that he still hasn’t given his approval of T4 for the simple reason that, well, he hasn’t seen anything of it that we haven’t seen.

Here’s what Cameron had to say:

There’s been some discussion at AICN and elsewhere of me rescinding my so-called blessing of T4 and that’s not the case. The truth is there never was a blessing to rescind, and there’s been some kind of misunderstanding between me and McG, perfectly innocent I believe. He asked me in a phone call when I was shooting in New Zealand earlier this year if I would be a supporter and creative participant in the new film. I said sure, send me the script and I’ll give you my thoughts. And I warned him that free advice is usually worth what you pay for it. For whatever reason I never got the script and to date I haven’t seen a foot of film other than what everybody’s seen in the trailer, which is not enough to form an opinion. So I have zero basis for supporting or dissing the film. As I said in an interview, for all I know it could be a masterpiece or it could be a big steaming pile. I think all people heard was the steaming pile part and concluded I was against the film, which I’m not. In fact, it might be very good, an opinion based solely on what Sam Worthington has shared with me. He’s nobody’s fool when it comes to material, and has absolutely the lowest bullshit quotient of anyone I know, and he has repeatedly told me that he reckons the film is going to be good. I know him to be very critical (in a healthy way) of his own work, and an actor who always aspires to excellence, so I know he wouldn’t praise the film if he didn’t feel it.

Obviously I can’t give my blessing (whatever that means anyway ) to the film completely blind. But I’m predisposed to be supportive based on Sam’s involvement and his judgment, because I believe in him. So there you have it. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed that it’s not a steaming pile.

Jim out

Man, what a brouhaha. Anyways, Sam Worthington is one of the stars of “Terminator Salvation”, and the star of Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic “Avatar”.

I wonder why McG et al never sent Cameron the script like he asked, after being asked by them? I guess they were just fishing for blind loyalty from him, which is kind of stupid on their part.

Anyways, here is a new video from “Terminator Salvation” that shows plenty of new footages from the movie, including more looks at some very nice looking new Terminators (10 in all!):