Christian Bale has signed on to play John Connor in the Terminator trilogy (the fourth installment in the franchise). Filming has already begun on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

Christian Bale isn’t just starring in the upcoming Terminator franchise reboot. The Dark Knight star is signed for an entire trilogy of flicks in which he’ll play resistance leader John Conner.

The producers of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which has already begun filming, revealed the scoop to BBC News.

Producer Victor Kubicek said, “Christian was our first choice and he’s a big fan of The Terminator, so we’re very lucky. But with Batman he’s already done the whole franchise thing, so we weren’t sure he’d respond.”

“Luckily,” said The Halcyon Company’s Derek Anderson, “he read the script and he loved it, so he’s signed on for all three.”

There’s no word on whether the other Terminator Salvation stars — Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Common, Moon Bloodgood — will be reprising their roles in subsequent flicks.

The next Terminator installment, directed by McG, will make its bow worldwide on May 22, 2009.

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Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is the inspiration for the Joker’s costume (The Dark Knight).

Fresh off Oscar night, we’re all apt to pay a little more attention to the behind-the-scenes players in the movies… people like costume designer Lindy Hemming who came up with The Joker’s new dudes in Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

Hemming tells how she came up with the outfit in an interview on WizardUniverse.com. “The first place that I looked [for inspiration] was obviously pictures of the Joker in past graphic novels, comic books, films, whatever, and then after that, I started to think, ‘Well, how could someone be like this?’” explains Hemming. “Then I wanted to contemporize it, so I started looking in fashion.”

Hemming says another element of inspiration came from the world of punk rock. “You say, ‘What’s the rationale for him being able to dress like this?’ That’s when I started looking at the pop world and I ended up looking at the Sex Pistols and Johnny Rotten,” says Hemming. “I was just thinking, ‘Well, there are plenty of guys out there who actually are as extreme as this, and there’s nothing wrong with doing it.’ You’ve got to make it look like someone really dresses like this. It can’t just be, ‘Hello, I’m putting on my costume.’ It’s got to be wherever he lives and whatever he’s been doing, he’s been wearing that.”

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