McG can put his life jacket and swim gear back on the shelf — the "Terminator Salvation" director won't embark upon his planned sea voyage anytime soon, as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has been docked indefinitely.

Variety reports that the latest film version of the classic Jules Verne novel is currently on hold, with director McG no longer attached. The production was set to begin this February and was considered "on a fast track under the Dick Cook regime," but the departure of the former Disney chief may have derailed the film's priority status. Read more...

Opinions are like a Terminator-filled post-apocalyptic future -- they're absolutely everywhere.

On the matter of "Terminator" as a film franchise, opinions on the recent "Terminator Salvation" are fairly widespread, though the general consensus seems to be disappointment with the theatrical cut. A potential remedy might be on the way courtesy of the "Terminator Salvation - Director's Cut" home video release however. UGO reports that the MPAA has rated McG's cut of the film with a hard R for "some violence and brief nudity." Might this version of "Terminator Salvation," the one that McG wanted us to see all along, be enough to change the commonly held dissatisfaction with last May's release?

Possibly... but probably not. Read more...

Remember the "Charlie's Angels" movies? Directed by McG? Starring Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz? No? Could be because it's been more than half a decade since the second movie in the series, 2003's "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle." It wasn't half-bad either, especially if you're into the whole "grrl power" blockbuster vibe.

So where has the series gone? "Full Throttle" didn't review so well, but the worldwide gross of $259 million more than doubled its $120 million budget. You'd think that with three hot leading ladies, a veteran blockbuster director and lots more money to be made, a third "Charlie's Angels" would be a foregone conclusion. Too bad the trio of "Angels" stars have a work ethic that "sucks." At least according to Cameron Diaz, who spoke with MTV on the series at San Diego Comic-Con.

The script for Disney’s adaptation of the classic Jules Verne character Captain Nemo is getting a revision, as Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”) steps in to rework the script previously penned by Bill Marsilii ("Deja Vu") and Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li"). As MTV recently learned, the film’s origin story focus will remain and producers have been traveling the globe to scout possible shoot locations.

“We’re just back from Australia on Friday,” producer Sean Bailey told MTV News. “We were looking around Australia and New Zealand. It’ll be a big, big globe-trotting movie. We feel like if you’re going to go 20,000 leagues under the sea, [the audience] needs to feel like you’ve done it with [Nemo].” Read more...

Disney's "Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has been in silent running mode for awhile now. We first heard that "Terminator Salvation" director McG would be taking the helm of a fast-tracked origin story of Jules Verne's famed submarine captain back in January. In an interview with MTV a few months later, the director revealed his plans to carry the 139 year old story "into today's culture."

Today, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the script penned by Bill Marsilii ("Deja Vu") and Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li") is getting a rewrite from Randall Wallace. Wallace scripted Mel Gibson's "Braveheart," Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor" and -- oddly -- the popular PC role-playing game "Titan Quest." Read more...

Did “Terminator Salvation” thrill you, bore you or simply tick you off? No matter how you feel, you’ll definitely want to take a look at a feature we just took live over on the MTV Movies page, in which director McG answers some burning plot questions from you guys.

And thanks to the power of the Movies Blog, here are four more questions McG was eager to sink his teeth into. Think of them as bonus features, minus the DVD:

Q: In the earlier movies, Skynet is not aware of Kyle Reese. So, why are they aware of him now? Read more...

Here's an interesting bit of information revealed by "Terminator Salvation" director McG in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. The talk concerns an alternate ending to the movie, a decidedly dark one which sounds as though it was never filmed. The article even states that the studio signed off on it, and that Christian Bale -- who plays humanity's savior John Connor -- was its staunchest defender.

Needless to say, spoilers ahead. So don't say I didn't warn you. Read more...

I decided to brave the New York City holiday weekend crowds on Sunday morning so I could check out "Terminator Salvation," the latest in that much-loved series from my childhood. "Terminator" and "T2: Judgment Day" have long been personal favorites; not so much with "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," though I think it's better than the sizable group of haters would like people to believe. As for the TV series, I've already discussed my disappointment at the cancellation of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" here on the blog.

Okay. Back to "Salvation." Needless to say, spoilers are to come. If you want a proper review, I encourage you to check out Kurt Loder's more detailed assessment on MTV.com. It's an interesting beast, "Terminator Salvation." All previous incarnations of the franchise have dealt with protecting the Connor family and preventing mankind's fall at the "hands" of a global artificial intelligence gone rogue. Always, there was this possibility that the nuclear holocaust might be diverted, that Skynet might be made to lose before its winning was ever a possibility. Then the bombs fall at the end of "Rise," and destiny becomes reality. Read more...

Editor's note: Last week, we asked you blog readers to submit questions for McG and the cast of "Terminator Salvation" to address. Well those queries have been received, processed, asked and answered. Here are your responses.

FROM MTV.COM: Whether you're a casual viewer or someone so hard-core that you've got an Arnold catchphrase tattooed across your "I'll Be" back, the "Terminator" franchise can get pretty confusing. With millions of soon-to-be-harvested humans having now seen "Salvation," we took some of their burning (and spoiler-heavy!) questions straight to the stars.

Q: In "Salvation," was John Connor aware that time travel would someday exist? Was he just waiting around for it?

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With Christian Bale joining the "Terminator" franchise as John Connor, it's no surprise that his co-star, Moon Bloodgood, isn't worried by "Star Trek's" success when "Terminator Salvation" opens this week. Bale did make Batman cool again after all.

So when the film opens Thursday, Bloodgood thinks that "Terminator" has just as good a chance as any movie does to live long and prosper. Why? Because she was expecting a success in "Star Trek." "I knew 'Star Trek' was going to be huge. I'm a Trekkie. I love it," she told MTV News. "You can never predict something to be big." Read more...