LatinoReview spoke with writer John Brancato and actor Benjamin Bratt at the "Catwoman" junket this past weekend and they spilled the beans on a variety of projects including "Terminator 4", the "Westworld" remake, the Che Guevara biopic, "The Great Raid" and more.
Can you talk about writing the Terminator story around his [Arnold Schwarzenegger's] model? Knowing, at best, he'd only be available for a cameo.
John Brancato: We did have to think about a new franchise character. He couldn't carry the movies anymore. So that caused us to have, I think, a pretty novel approach about what the new terminator would be like. What directions would it go in. Again, they made me actually sign things that I would not leak. As much as I would like to brag about the script, I can't really tell you. Are Nick Stahl and Claire Danes resigned for the sequel?
John Brancato: I think they're committed to have a part, if that's something they [the studio] want to do. When they signed for T3 they had to be available for T4. What's Westworld about?
John Brancato: Westworld is a remake of kind of a classic movie that was written by Michael Crichton in the seventies. Yul Brenner in that part was a progenitor of The Terminator. You have this killer robot that can't be stopped. It's coming after you. It's funny to see how The Terminator ripped off Westworld. It's this crazy loop we've been working. This is imagining, basically think of super Vegas. Where you have wholly recreated worlds of the wild west, middle ages, ancient Rome, and outer space, sort off like separate environments, like crazy casinos with robots, who are performing all these extreme roles. It became this fun thing to play with and think about. What can you tell us about Che Gueverra? Benjamin Bratt: I think the script is in development. Originally that project was in the hands of Terrence Malick and I was very excited about working with him. Unfortunately it didn't work out with him, he went to another project. He was the co-author of that particular Che project, along with Benicio Del Toro. For whatever reason, the project has moved to the hands of Steven Soderbergh. Who was initially, I think, being asked about it a few years back. So, we'll start working on that sometime next summer. As of my last meeting with them, my role would be that of Ente, the right hand man, lieutenant to Che. One of the last survivors of the massacre that occurred in Bolivia, the film basically covers the final days of Che. By the way, Ghost Soldiers is called The Great Raid again.
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