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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.
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.
Enough with the trilogies already. why can't we have a single good movie and just let that be?
My sig has been answered.
.... in POO.
After repeated viewings, I'm of the opinion that Cameron's what makes the franchise. We didn't need a third movie (what the hell was up with that, anyway?) - much like we didn't need a Highlander 2 (or 3, etc).
If they're good, that's one thing - but Terminator without Cameron is like, say... The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen without Allen Moore. Or Watchmen if it were written by Rob Liefeld.
The only upcoming "sequel" sci-fi I'm looking forward to is Babylon 5 : The Lost Tales. It's more B5, and most importantly, it's still under the control of Straczynski.
I trust in creators, not franchises.
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 ....
FTA:
"Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project, which picks up with John Connor in his 30s leading what's left of the human race against the machines."
Which bit of "Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project" are you struggling with?
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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 agree. As much as I enjoyed the original Terminator movies, the background plot of John Connor always seemed more interesting to me and I always felt a bit disappointed that it wasn't developed further. The part in T1 when Michael Biehn's character (Reese) falls asleep under the bridge and has a flashback dream was an incredibly cool sequence.
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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"Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project"
I can predict the future on this one without time travel.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
With vaguely homoerotic overtones, like Spiderman. Because Hollywood hasn't turned everything into shit just yet.
But to be fair, T-3 was pretty close to that. All that they need to do is fill the cast with whatever interchangeable hunks and chicks are in whatever is hot on the WB at that time.
Oh yeah and did I mention that Sarah Conners has to be black?
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
Fuck, this is dreary. Even if it isn't that good can we have some new Sci-Fi?
Something that isn't a "franchise". Some that is not Star Wars? Or Star Trek
Or whatever it is Hollywood has already made dozens of movies of?
Fuck ANY thing without a number at the end!
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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T7: Stack overflow.
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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sensenet becoming self aware is what sets the whole shebang off in the first place right? that's always been the most interesting aspect of the story to me. why not tell the story from the point of view of the AI?
We don't know that much about what skynet did after it took over, how the humans fought, what happened elsewhere in the world.. this is what T3 should have been, but wasn't. There's probably enough there for at least one more movie, but I don't know about three.
..don't panic
[Spoiler alert]
Episode 4: Total Recall
After modifying part of skynet, John Connor managed to recall all robots back to HQ where he short-circuited their Sony power unit until they swell and explode. Towards the end the program managed to install itself on a retrotype animal robot.. something called the AIBO
Episode 5: Kindergarten Cop
Turns out before the Terminator was sent back in time to help young John, the old John sent another robot called the Eraser to assist toddler John in finding little Miles Bennett Dyson. The SkynetAIBO was also sent back in time and ate all of John's erasers, including the one that smells really nice. SkynetAIBO returns home sick from eating too much erasers.
Episode 6: The Last Action Hero
The future world is now finally at peace. Robots are again used as servants and slaves without soul. John refused to lead the nation of United States and settled to govern the state of CA-90210.
One day he suffers from major headache when a hotel chain heiress Barcelona Hotlin begged him to get her off her impending imprisonment due to excessive velocity transport without authorization clearance. He agreed to pardon her in exchange with sexual favor, which the SkynetAIBO secretly taped and sold all over the Interweb. SkynetAIBO becomes rich and builds a new ROBOTIC EMPIRE. (pitch to the next series of trilogy)
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I have seen the future, and it's direct to DVD
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