Just confirmation from a rumour carried in a previous story that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not appear in Terminator 4, despite what the executives (and us) would prefer.

Terminator 3 made a poor movie for the Terminator franchise, sure there were good action set pieces in it, and the underlying idea was quite a clever one, but the continuity errors and the very poor new Terminator model just didn't work. I mean what Terminator needs to look to screen and monologue, then prance along like a catwalk model with bad wind? Anyway, I digress.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, through Coming Soon, Arnie has said:

...they will never see me for one second in the movie...

The full quote is open to a bit of misunderstanding...

The governor said he had been approached about making a brief appearance in "Terminator 4,'' but has told producers "they will never see me for one second in the movie" unless the film is made in California. It's planned to be shot in Budapest.

...with the unless it's in California indicating he would if there were scenes to shoot over there, yet it's not in quotes and presumably not said by the big man. So we can safely assume he's not doing it.

Still it's going ahead with John Brancato and Michael Ferris (*cough Catwoman cough*) completing a draft of a script that was developed under the supervision of Jonathan Mostow.