I caught up on “Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles” this week, a show I near abandoned after its shitty pilot, and I’m surprised to say, it’s not bad. It’s actually improved since those early episodes. The Incorporation of the ‘Reese’ boys into the show has actually breathed new life into the series – and believe me, it needed it. The thing was nearly comatose there for a while.

Jonathan Jackson (“The Deep End of the Ocean”) played Kyle Reese – the character Michael Biehn played in the first “Terminator” (1984) – on the show, and I have to say, he did a pretty good job. He’s also not a bad match for young Biehn.

The new “Terminator” movie – previously titled “Terminator Salvation : The Future Begins”, but that title has been scrapped – now has it’s Kyle Reese…. And he doesn’t look anything like Biehn, sadly.

Anton Yelchin, who just wrapped shooting “Star Trek”, has been cast as the soldier originally sent back through time to bump uglies with Jim Cameron’s then-wife. Granted, Yelchin is playing a ‘teenage’ version of Reese, so maybe it doesn’t matter that he’s not a dead-ringer for the previous actor that played the character.

The Hollywood Reporter has also unveiled some new plot details about the film. It seems Sam Worthington’s character, Marcus, is actually a ‘Terminator’, for one.

Says the trade, “Reese, one of the children who survived a machine-driven nuclear holocaust, befriends Marcus (Sam Worthington), an early edition of the Terminator cyborg played in previous films by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In "Salvation," the character is a young version of the one played by Michael Biehn, who traveled back in time in the original to impregnate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and father the world's future savior.

The film picks up with their son (Bale), now in his 30s, fighting desperately to save a decimated civilization against machines that have taken control. It's unclear if the father and child reunion is only a cyborg motion away in the new film.”

Paul Haggis (“Crash”) is in talks to write the script.