Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producer Moritz Borman told Tomorrow’s Entertainment that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be in the fourth installment of the franchise.. Why? You ask.. Well it’s quite simple, the movie takes place before the famous fighting machine has been built.. Borman said..

” We’re keeping the script under very tight security.. And one of the reasons is that we have a huge twist at the end, which we’re being careful not to reveal.. Like with the last Terminator, we kept that under tight wraps so not even the crew got the last six or seven pages.. I can tell you this much; this is the story everybody has been waiting for.. Namely, we’re in the future.. The part of it where Arnold’s character has not yet been built but is on the drawing board.. And in the next two episodes we’ll get to the point where time - travel is more in the foreground.. It’s the war against the machines, the start of Skynet taking over the world..”

Borman hinted that the Governator, Schwarzenegger, could be featured in two subsequent movies and commented..

” He knows the material and is very supportive of what we’re doing.. There might even be hints of his character in this one..”

Borman refused to be drawn on Christian Bale playing John Connor and added..

” Everyone is assuming there is a John Connor and a Terminator in the script.. Connor is in there along with another figure, but who is that figure?”

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins hits theaters in the summer of 2009..