After dropping hints that he would like everyone from Daniel Day Lewis to Josh Brolin for his upcoming T4, director McG has instead decided to go with Australian actor Sam Worthington. According to Digital Spy, Worthington will be playing Marcus, the “bad-ass Riddick type” that the new Terminator trilogy will follow as he rises to an important position alongside John Connor (Christian Bale) in the fight against the machines. For more information about Marcus, read what the producers of the movie have to say about him here.

Sam Worthington is a wanted man nowadays in Hollywood, and he seems to have a toehold on the Terminator family. Besides being cast as Marcus in T4, Worthington is also the star of James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar” sci-fi epic. In fact, according to DS, it was Cameron who recommended Worthington to McG!