Terminator fans seem to be having a run of good luck lately.

Along with the new television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which airs on Fox Monday nights, another film trilogy is on the horizon.

Director McG -- also executive producer for The CW series Supernatural -- has dropped tantalizing hints regarding the casting for the upcoming Terminator Salvation trilogy. Christian Bale will take up the role of John Connor and a new Terminator model will be introduced. However McG still remains coy about the cybernetic role.

Theres guys out there like Russell Crowe and Eric Bana, who bring a good physicality, they do what they do, but I dont know if theyre exactly right at the end of the day, he said, according to Dark Horizons. Josh Brolin is a very exciting actor -- well see.

Lately, Brolin has enjoyed critical acclaim and renewed stardom due to his role of Llewelyn Moss in the Coen brothershard hitting film No Country for Old Men which is tipped to take home an Oscar or two later this month.

The new trilogy takes place after Judgment Day in the year 2019 and the first installment, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, is set to bring the same realistic darkness to the screens as another popular franchise that will be flying to the screens in the summer.

Its very much in keeping what the studio has done with Batman, he added. Were respectful of the first pictures in creating a new language, while honoring the mythology, and I felt it would be a great time to play upon some of the [Isaac] Asimov ideas, some of the Phillip K. Dick ideas. It felt like a good time to tell a story about humanity and what it means to make us all human.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is slated for a summer 2009 release.