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..."

Comments

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Another dead horse to beat.

Re:Great

[bitt3n]

Another dead horse to beat.

well, you think it's dead, and you pointedly turn your back on it and clasp your love interest in a long and passionate kiss that gives it just enough time to rear up on its hind legs and then start galloping toward you out of the flaming wreckage with its beady red eyes all aglow. Terminator 4: OMG PONIES

Re:Great

[It doesn't come easy]

Yeah, glad they didn't do that to Star Trek...

Premonition.

[reality-bytes]

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!"

Re:Premonition.

[morgan_greywolf]

I know I'd go back in time prevent that movie from ever being made!

Re:Premonition.

[clickclickdrone]

"Meesa be back!"

I always thought I was too old to be spooked by such a simple thing as the written word but you sir have guaranteed I'll be having nightmares tonight. {shudder}

To be fair

[clickclickdrone]

He did say 'I'll be back'.

OMG is the George Lucas Effect!

[Soiden]

Terminator IV: A new John Connor Terminator V: The Robots Strike Back Terminator VI: The Return of the Terminator

Re:OMG is the George Lucas Effect!

[Dr. Eggman]

I know this is a joke, but still I'd bet a George Lucas style Terminator would turn out pretty awesome. The francise is coming off of a low note, ie T3, and with nothing but the future war setting left, it would look pretty sweet. All the battle sequences from episode II and III were rather spectacular in my opinion, and a future war Terminator movie done in the same style might be the kind of new direction the francise needs. It's not like there needs to be much character story, everyone's pretty much setup in their relations to the main players, and its not as if a political side story would appear in the middle an extinction war. So, that means, no romance plot, no starchy politics, and a freaking pre-destined on-the-rails plotline (thanks a lot T3.) So what's left to make the movie? SFX, explosions, creative war machines, more explosions, fancy CGI/models, and zetaflops worth of more explosions! A George Lucas style Terminator 4 would rock!

Enough

[escay]

Enough with the trilogies already. why can't we have a single good movie and just let that be?

Re:Enough

[solios]

Because trilogies make more money, duh.

Hollywood only cares about quality product to the extent that they need the occasional quality product in order to keep the cash pouring in.

Re:Enough

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Enough with the trilogies already. why can't we have a single good movie and just let that be?

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.

Re:Enough

[radarsat1]

Books are the one thing I have not seen the phenomenon in however. The reason may be that there is already so much variety, and that the major book readers don't purchase such worthless media.

Hm.. I'm sorry, maybe it's because I just rolled out of bed and I'm a bit tired, but I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic or not... *books* don't have trilogies??? When was the last time you went to a book store my friend?

Re:Enough

[Zoxed]

> 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.

Well, IMHO, Star Wars IV was the best in that series :-)

That would anchor their company...

[solios]

.... 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.

Re:Worth going back in time to prevent:

[ettlz]

Oh, fuck it: Terminator: The Musical.

Plot for Terminator 4

[Anonymous Coward]

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 ....

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[Sqweegee]

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."

Re:Will it involve Arnold?

[clickclickdrone]

Which bit of "Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project" are you struggling with?

Problem

[Bob54321]

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...

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[eli pabst]

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.

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[Intron]

"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.

Spoilers

[p4rri11iz3r]

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 ...

Where is the new SciFi?

[bhima]

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!

Trilogies

[jacobw]

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.

Trilogies II: Trilogier

[jacobw]

...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!!!!!

Re:T4

[Sponge Bath]

T7: Stack overflow.

Trilogies III: Trilectric Boogoloo

[jacobw]

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!

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[apostrophesemicolon]

[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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Re:Who needs Arnold?

[servognome]

I have seen the future, and it's direct to DVD