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Inside Terminator Salvation's Bleak World

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Director McG stripped most of the color from Salvation in order to evoke an "other-worldly, desolate feeling." The filmmaker solicited feedback from experts who monitored the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, then underscored the post-apocalyptic sense of gloom by using obsolete Kodak stock that was baked in the sun to deliberately damage the film.

"Most importantly," McG said, "we added three times as much silver in the processing than one traditionally would to a color stock."

McG, eager to win Cameron's seal of approval, remembers the pitch: "I told Cameron, 'This is the first Terminator picture that takes place post-Judgment Day. We'll be able explore this world that you alluded to ever so briefly and re-invigorate Terminator in the spirit of what Chris Nolan did with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight or the James Bond franchise has done in the Daniel Craig space.' So Cameron said, 'OK, that sounds interesting.'"
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