Course Of Action Failure; Twice

As Ain’t It Cool News reports, Arnie has been recast for the upcoming new Terminator trilogy kick-off Terminator Salvation.

Yup, read again!

They haven’t politely cut his role from the new movies to establish a cool new branch of the Terminator franchise, no, of course not. They recast the role. With the guy on the right there =>

He’s Roland Kickinger, of the same origin as Arnie (Austrian bodybuilder), and with an even cooler name, actually. Kickinger already starred as the current Governor of California in a biopic called See Arnold Run.

When do film makers finally realize that replacing an icon like Schwarzenegger is simply not the thing you do? I can live with a new Bilbo Baggins for the new Hobbit movies, but this is as awful as if you recast David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder of The X-Files - without a warning during the seventh season - with someone like Zach Braff. Just won’t work.

By the way, they really cast a new voice actor for the German synchronisation of Fox Mulder for the upcoming second X-Files movie I Want To Believe. HOW FRICKIN’ POOR IS THAT!?

I mean, are you kidding me? After 201 episodes, after nine years of TV presence, after one motion picture, they erase the greatness of Benjamin Völz and replace him by whoever the new guy is! Arrr, the trailer really turns me off already…and all that just because Völz and FOX couldn’t reach an agreement about Völz’s payment. To hell with it, give him the money he deserves, he’s one of our best voice actors!

Sigh, I’m really not wondering why I am so much more hyped by The Dark Knight than by the new X-Files movie. Go Joker!!