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New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned
Ant writes "Dark Horizons reports after much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise/series in recent years, something surprising has happened: The Halcyon Company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular movie series and intends to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company..."
Another dead horse to beat.
Start with the story of John Connor and his wife, of course, set in the future.
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I just had this awful premonition of a new model of Terminator...
...It can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead...
"Meesa be back!"
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Terminator: The Animated Series.
He did say 'I'll be back'.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Terminator IV: A new John Connor Terminator V: The Robots Strike Back Terminator VI: The Return of the Terminator
Minti: What's that huge shuriken in your back?! Kin: It's the instrument of my victory.
Not for nothing, but the man is nearly 60 years old. Can you really plan any more trilogies around the guy's portrayal of an immortal android who never gets old or tired at this point?
Maybe if the last installment is a crossover with Indiana Jones, where they fight over Jello in a nursing home..
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All hope for humankind is almost lost. John Connor is on the ropes, he and his band of rebels have almost been completely eliminated by the latest rev of the Terminator line, the T666. However, like a bolt from the heavens, the real saviour of the human race emerges. It is non other than Darl McBride. It turns out that SkyNet has at least 1024 instances of SCO owned IP in it's source code. Darl is able to tie SkyNet up in litigation for years, allowing Connor to regroup ....
T4: The return of the return of the machines.
T5: The return of the return of the return of the machines.
T6: The return of the return of the return of the return of the machines.
I could work in Hollywood.
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Anchors drag things down, or at least keep them where they are. I think they need a better analogy. Perhaps something to do with cars...
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I'll be back, and back, and back.
Life needs more saving throws.
It might be the "original," but that "or" is also deceptively complex.
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Terminator IV: A New Hope (more of a "hacker movie" like Swordfish) As human resistance slowly fails, it falls upon hackers to discover a decription code for the robots programming which happens to be: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Rebels win the day. Terminator V: Sony sues back (a lawyer movie) The robots sue the rebels of IP infringment. A climactic point is reached when John Connor is on the stand. The defense displays pictures of various robots (1 at a time) and asks the question, "Are these the motherf*ckers?" to which John angrily screams "YES!" Terminator VI: Return of the Sequels ...
"Now I'm seriously serious!" - Serious Sam
> Why? What was wrong with Highlander II and Highlander III? Errr, OK, bad example. Matrix II and Matrix III?? Hmmm. Alien3 and Alien Resurection??? OK, I give up.
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Well, IMHO, Star Wars IV was the best in that series
The advantage of a well-done trilogy is that the first film sets up certain expectations regarding characters and plot. The second film then plays with those expectations in a surprising and suspenseful way. And when the third film wraps everything up, you feel a satisfaction that can only come from having lived with the characters in your imagination for several years.
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...or at least, that's what I used to think. Then I found out that A TRILOGY KILLED MY FATHER--and it's COMING AFTER ME NEXT!!!!!
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Well, that was close. The trilogy that killed my father almost killed me, but fortunately, I was saved by a bunch of fuzzy, cute merchandising opportunities that had absolutely nothing to do with the tone or content of my first two posts. Whew!
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Okay, so we've already got -
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Followed by -
- Terminator 4: Inescapable Truth
- Terminator 5: ?????
- Terminator 6: Profit!*
* The working title for "Terminator 6: Profit!" is "Please, oh please, watch this movie." I can't wait for some asshat to start with the whole "social contract" crap and how we, the good little consumers, have an obligation to go to the theaters and finance whatever garbage they're shoveling this week. Think of the children of the executive producer!
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You'd pay to see a 30 seconds flick?
Then again, when I look at some porn sites...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And #4 will be from the team that wrote that piece of shit #3. I think I'd rather watch a shot-by-shot remake of the original from Gus Van Sant with Anne Heche as Sarah Conner, Vince Vaughn as Kyle Reese, and William H. Macy as the terminator.
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Having been granted full ownership of SkyNet by the courts, Darl McBride repurposes it to hunt down and destroy Linux users who have failed to pay their $199 licensing fee. Even though John Connor is a BSD user, he realizes that it is only a matter of time before Darl turns on his kind as well. As an act of desperation, Connor forges an alliance with the remaining T666 units, knowing that he is facing the greatest threat to humanity yet. While the T666 units stage a valiant assault against Darl, it is clear that they are no match for his ever growing power. All appears lost until it is revealed that the assault was just a diversion to allow Connor to strike at Darl's Achilles' heel by getting SCO delisted from the NASDAQ.
We'll have the new release, then a remastered release in which the Terminator doesn't fire first.