T3 script gets Game writers

The long-anticipated "Terminator 3" may be going back to square one, with new writers assigned to redo the screenplay.

The Popcorn.co.uk website reports that the original screenplay by Ted Sarafian -- which was to see star Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg taking on a female robot (rumoured to be "X-Men's" Famke Janssen) -- is getting a rewrite from screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, the team responsible for the 1997 David Fincher film "The Game."

Actor Vin Diesel, who stars in the street-racing movie "The Fast And The Furious," is now being touted as a co-star for "T3," which reportedly carries the subtitle "Rise Of The Machines."

There's no word on whether Ferris and Brancato have been directed to move the story away from the female protagonist concept of Sarafian's story.

Popcorn said "Terminator 2" stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong are poised to reprise their roles in "T3," which is to begin production as soon as the threatened actors strike is resolved.

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