Arnold Schwarzenegger told the New York Post that his upcoming Terminator 3 will feature a new villain: a female terminator cyborg. "She can disappear, she can mold into someone else, and she is sometimes just energy," Schwarzenegger told the tabloid newspaper. The role has yet to be cast.

Schwarzenegger will be re-teaming with Edward Furlong in the sequel, and he also added that he ordered a few rewrites of the Terminator 3 script.

"The two drafts I read were so big that it would have cost $300 million to make it," he said. "So now they're toning it down, because I don't think we need to see a 747 crash-land into all those buildings in downtown L.A. I think we can do it on a football field somewhere so that it doesn't cost that much."

The filming for Terminator 3 is slated to begin in the spring, and hopefully that schedule will remain so, that is if it's not derailed by impending writers' and actors' union strikes. No director has been hired yet, and Terminator franchise creator James Cameron has declined to take part.

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