Noun: "a movie which revisits the subject matter of an earlier film but is not a remake or a linear continuation of its plot (i.e. a sequel or prequel)"
Everyone's favourite cybernetic assassin isn't being rebooted. Despite requels being all the rage, Christian Bale tells Sun Media next summer's "Terminator Salvation" will stay true to James Cameron's seminal science-fiction thrillers.
"We want the character to look different, feel different, sound different. The back story of the character's different, the origin of the story is expanded upon in ways that the first movie didn't hint at, at all. […] It's pretty much a reboot, only with the same actor, which makes it: a requel. Or a seboot."
For this requel, the story is simple and somewhat familiar (think "The Omen" and "Rosemary's Baby"): the devil, a man called Roarke, needs a new host and is after a young boy, Danny, to take as his new host.