Helena Bonham Carter Joining ‘Terminator Salvation’

June 30, 2008

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Sony, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels, War

The script for Terminator Salvation must be all kinds of magic, because it’s attracting the most unlikely of people. The Hollywood Reporter announced this day that Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join the cast, which already includes some pretty fine actors. Exactly who or what she will play isn’t mentioned, merely that her part is “small, but pivotal.”

So, let the speculation start! As Sarah Connor has morphed to a lovely brunette Lena Headey in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, perhaps she will be playing her in a flashback? (I know, the TV show is on a separate mythology/timeline as the films, but I’ve to take into account all the possibilities.) Could she be a Terminator model, despite her petiteness? A vital designer of SkyNet? A baker who comes up with an industrious way to dispose of fallen soldiers and feed what’s left of humanity? I’m at a loss here.