Let’s face it, it hasn’t been easy being McG these last few months. Although the production of “Terminator Salvation” seems to have gone pretty smoothly, everything else about the sequel, and in particular McG, hasn’t been all roses. First, there was that embarrassing bit about James Cameron never having given his blessings to T4, despite what McG had publicly proclaimed, and months ago, there was that travesty of a rumor about the ending of T4. True or untrue, McG? Well the director finally speaks, and here’s what he said to say via TotalFilm.

About the rumored AICN ending, which had John Connor being dead and a Terminator taking his place:

“That is not the ending. John Connor is not the machine. We did discuss that idea, but that is not the ending, I can say that right now.”

On the James Cameron Blessing Saga:

“I did go to see James Cameron. He didn’t give us his blessing, but he didn’t shit all over our movie. When Jim was making Alien, he was following the great Ridley Scott, so he knows how we feel.”

This one, I had never heard of, and I really haven’t a clue what it means, but it concerns Christian Bale claiming he didn’t want to front another major franchise, and then changing his mind:

“I met Christian when he was shooting The Dark Knight. He told me to fuck right off, he didn’t want to do it. He said, ‘Write it so that it could be read cold on stage and I’ll think about doing it.’”

On Arnold’s possible cameo appearance in T4, which we’ve already covered:

“We’re trying to synthesise a human character with a CGI character and that may or may not have something to do with the T800,” McG told us with a smile.

The process isn’t without its problems, though. McG isn’t happy with ILM’s work so far… “At the moment it’s not good enough,” he said. “And we’re running out of time.”

So there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth.

Below: A very cool fan poster for T4.