Continuing the dismal trend of digging up the lifeless corpses of ’70s and ’80s television shows, painting them up pretty, and watching them decay over a single season of broadcast television (ed: see Knight Rider , The Bionic Woman , web-slingers!), ABC is reportedly close to ordering a pilot for a new adaptation of Charlie’s Angels . The latest revival will be the third attempt, looming under the finger-gunned ladyshadows of plans made in 1988 and 2004 that never reached campy eroticism actualization. No word on how this will affect plans for a third Charlie Angel movie . The two surely can’t run parallel; the heavens could never stand to loan mankind six slutty-looking women all at once.

Not despite Charlie’s Angel s , but because of it (the first one, anyway), I really like McG as a filmmaker. Say what you want about his undeservedly but oft-criticized nickname, but the guy has the chops - and then some - to make blockbuster spectacle look, well, spectacular. Given his existing filmography, he’s only made one serious creative misstep, the disastrous Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle , since the first Angels movie was an exhilarating thrill ride and 2006’s We Are Marshall a heartfelt and powerful drama. Aiming for the A-list credibility enjoyed by the likes of Christopher Nolan, McG has unleashed his muscular, bombastic creativity on Terminator Salvation , which should certainly resuscitate the franchise even if it doesn’t quite distinguish the director from other fanboy punching bags like Michael Bay and Brett Ratner. As part of Cinematical’s special Summer Interview Series with different directors, we sat down with McG at the film’s Los Angeles press day for an exclusive chat about reimagining Terminator ’s beloved characters. In addition to talking about defining the director’s own filmmaking style and searching through summers past to find the films that inspired him to become a director, McG drilled us a little bit about our own feelings on the film, precipitating one of the more interesting, and, well, interactive interviews we’ve done in a while. Filed under: Action , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Warner Brothers , Interviews , Comic/Superhero/Geek Continue reading Interview: ‘Terminator Salvation’ Director McG Permalink | Email this | Comments