Excited yet? ‘Terminator 4’ trailer hits Web

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There’s no Common or Helena Bonham Carter, but there’s plenty of Christian Bale, at least via voice-over.

The trailer for the latest installment in the ‘Terminator’ franchise, ‘Terminator Salvation,’ was unleashed to the Web sometime Wednesday afternoon, ahead of its bow on the big screen in front of ‘The Dark Knight.’

There’s the familiar banging-on-the-walls theme, and a brief snippet of Bale’s Connor. The trailer goes for a radio-static effect, and we get a human skull being smashed. But before you think you’ve seen that before, it’s a human foot that’s turning bone to dust this time around.

‘This is not the future my mother warned me about,’ says Bale as Connor, and we get a handful of apocalyptic shots of the Earth and a brief, PG-13-friendly explosion. McG (‘Charlie’s Angels’) will direct the upcoming ‘Terminator,’ which is set in postwar 2018 and follows Connor as he leads the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.

The clip is after the jump.

-- Todd Martens