“Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins” is officially in production, and Warner Bros. has created a production blog that T4 director McG will be using to communicate with the fans and, every now and then, dole out a piece of goody or two. Warner did this with “Watchmen” as well, with director Zack Snyder doing the same thing, and it looks like McG plans on following in his footsteps. This is great stuff, I have to admit, because I love it when directors go to the people and show us snippets from the movie, instead of hiding it in their drawers and waiting for their studio’s PR hounds to send out the goodies to one or two movie sties. That’s just crap, and they seem to know it now. Good for them, I say.

Here’s a snippet from McG’s first post:

We’ve officially started principal photography on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Like you guys, I’ve been a long-time fan of the series and I understand your passion for the Terminator movies — and it’s my full intention to deliver a film that lives up to the previous three installments. I’ve spent time with James Cameron, spoken to Arnold Schwarzenegger, gone over the story with Jonah Nolan, and enlisted Stan Winston.

You can read the rest of it at the Official T4 Blog. He doesn’t reveal too much, but then again, this is only his first post, so what do you expect?

He did, though, gave us the below picture — concept artwork of a post-apocalyptic American city with a Skynet airborne Hunter Killer hovering above. Nice!