Why Terminator: Salvation Needs Linda Hamilton

While talking up Terminator: Salvation last night, director McG wouldn't disclose whether or not those rumors about Ahnold making a cameo appearance were true. But when asked whether or not there would be some kind of "recap" of the first three movies in the new one, McG did reveal that they're "still trying to figure out what to do." No need to hurry or anything, McProcrastinator, what with just four months to go till the premiere. One option they're looking into, though, is having Sarah Connor open the movie with a voiceover. He didn't specify whether this would be the Linda Hamilton version from the first two movies or the Lena Headey version from the TV show, or some other option entirely. Here are a few reasons why the movie needs the Hamilton option.

1. Okay, first off, she's Linda Hamilton. It doesn't matter that she's guest-starred on the abysmal According to Jim and starred in some truly mediocre TV movies since her Terminator days, she still has the ass-kicking cred from her stint as Sarah Connor.

2. She made Sarah Connor's transformation from soft, girlish damsel in distress in the first movie to lean, mean pre-apocalyptic mama in the sequel even more awesome than the liquid metal CGI shape-shifting of the T-1000.

3. She was the most badass woman of the movie franchise. The T-X in Rise of the Machines may have been a deadly futuristic assassin, but she was a machine. She had Skynet on her side. Mostly what Sarah had in T2: Judgment Day were her washboard abs, a proficiency for firearms and a desire to protect her son that bordered on batshit crazy. And Linda Hamilton made it work.

4. Finally, there's no better way to christen this new franchise than to enlist her help. It'd be like breaking a bottle of champagne over the bow of a ship. Except instead of a ship, it's a movie, and instead of champagne, it's a mix of human sweat and gun oil!

What do you all think? Voiceover or no voiceover? Linda or Lena? Boxers or briefs?

4 Comments

January 13, 2009 4:51 PM
Christine
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A voiceover would be PERFECT!

January 13, 2009 5:16 PM
cliff
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Good take thanks

January 13, 2009 7:14 PM
Bethany
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as much as i love lena it would have to be linda everytime, she made sarah in t2 tough as nails and in the hands of another actress the character could have been unsympathetic and yet linda made us feel for this character....
and although i'm naturally sceptical of anything that passes the hand of McG (this is a guy who gave himself that name after all) i keep reminding myself that he does have a producing credit on the totally awesome Supernatural and so adding linda would help ease some of those fears... i think

January 14, 2009 10:07 AM
Tom
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Didn't Sarah Connor die from cancer between the second and third movies? She wouldn't be able to recap the third movie, then -- unless you count on the TV series changing the continuity.

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