“Terminator Salvation" director McG appeared at WonderCon – like Comic Con, only without the Guys-in-Ghostbuster-outfits and a less expensive Amtrak ticket; on the other hand you can’t get that awesome Little Italy Pizza there – this weekend and essentially confirmed (well, for the twentieth time) that Arnold Schwarzeneger will indeed be part of his robots-in-disguise sequel.

In fact, Schwarzenegger is so pleased with how McG has used him in the movie – ILM has crafted a younger version of the Oak’s T-800 from James Cameron’s original – that he’s in talks to record more dialogue.

But that’s not the yummiest part – the yummiest part, as I see it, is McG confirming Robert Patrick’s involvement in the next movie.

Ripping a page out of Paul W.S Anderson’s “Alien Vs. Predator” (good for something after all!; remember how Lance Henriksen played the inventor of Bishop, the character he played in the "Alien" movies?) book, McG tells FEARnet that he’s possibly going to have Patrick play the scientist that ultimately forms the mould of the unstoppable T-1000 from “Terminator 2 : Judgement Day”.

"I talk to Robert Patrick with great regularity," he said. "It's interesting – I was [thinking of] a through line. I'll bounce it off of you guys: I like the idea in a prospective next picture that you meet Robert Patrick the way he looks today, and he's a scientist that's working on improving cell replication so we can stay healthier and we can cure juvenile diabetes and all these things that once again sound like good ideas -- and once again live as an idealized expression of ourselves. So imagine seeing a sixty-year-old Robert Patrick and knowing, 'Holy shit! That's gonna be the T-1000 – who comes back perfect, lean and the whole thing.' I haven't concluded that, but Robert and I had dinner the other night and talked about it. I made two movies with Robert Patrick, so I like him very much. And now he's very heavily into motorcycle riding. He's a really serious guy."