Motorcycle manufacturers roll them out in a variety of fashions, from supermodels laying across the latest muscle machine to touring a limited number of next years models at rallies and biker events. But as excited riders can be to see next years models before they hit the showroom floors, this summer they have the chance to ride into the future of two-wheel possibilities as motorcycle are featured in two science fiction blockbusters hitting the big screen.
As if an answer to the classic Indian motorcycle featured in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and an exciting action sequence using a current Harley-Davidson model in the X-Men spin-off 'Wolverine', film makers are using everyone's favorite two-wheeled obsession to add depth to a storyline or character.
In the upcoming revision of the science fiction classic, the leading man is seen speeding across the desert in an early scene in 'Star Trek' being released nationwide on May 8th. On what appears to be a future version of a sportsbike, its certainly no V-Twin powering a scene reminiscent of Tom Cruise riding alongside a landing F-14 in Top Gun. With both characters using a motorcycle for the ride to their military destiny, painting an unconventional hero with a rebellious way of doing things.
Playing the most famous fictional captain in history actor Chris Pine had concerns about taking on the role of James T. Kirk, "As I kind of looked at it, I found that I was scared more by the prospect of bringing Kirk to life again, because he’d already been done, and done really well.”
Motorcycles seem to be regular prop for a certain cyborg series of movies, with Harley-Davidson's prominently appearing in past Terminator films. Since Arnold Schwarzenegger first wandered into a biker bar, the Terminator series of movies have cast the motorcycle alongside famous faces and always at the heart of the action. The latest edition of the science fiction blockbuster will continue that tradition with two-wheeled terminators, part-motorcycle, part-cyborg killing machines reportedly boasting machine guns and glowing red headlights as eyes.
Producers are changing lanes with the latest installment, 'Terminator Salvation', setting the movie in the future when Terminators are eliminating the human race. Warner Bros have said Terminator 4 will take place in post-apocalyptic 2018, where John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.
But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Official renderings of the two-wheeled terminators, part-motorcycle, part-cyborg killing machines are also finding their way onto the internet offering customizations likely never seen on today's roads such as deadly machine guns, which appear to act as counterbalances in the brief appearance during the movie trailer.
An actor familiar with custom rides who stars as John Conner is Christian Bale, last appearing on the silver screen in the second Batman movie riding a motorcycle that could apparently give the Moto-Terminators a run for their money.
The movie will debut nationwide on May 22nd.
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