More “Terminator” On the Way?
From darkhorizons.com:
After much talk and posturing over the future of “The Terminator” franchise in recent years, something surprising has happened – producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna have given up their baby.
The Halcyon Co. has acquired the franchise rights to the popular “The Terminator” movie series and intend to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company.
“Terminator 4″ will be based on a script by John Brancato and Michael Ferris (“Terminator 3″), and Halcyon plans to immediately begin preproduction on the film with the hope of a Summer 2009 release.
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.
The deal includes the right to produce any future “Terminator” projects in any format (film, TV, etc.). It also includes all future merchandising and licensing rights, and certain rights to the upcoming TV series “The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”
Terminator 2 is one of my all-time favorite movies and the first is up there as well. The third… not so good. Why? No James Cameron. I can only imagine what a whole new storyline in the Terminator world would be like. I’m not sure the concept of a Terminator can survive without Arnold being the lead, but you never know. Let’s hope they get some great writers involved.
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I liked the first and second movies better than the third, but I was surprised that I did like the third movie a lot. I think they ended it well and set it up nice for a fourth movie.
The “truck sequence” in T3 is pretty spectacular but yeah, I agree that on the whole it was a pretty lackluster movie.
I think in some ways maybe a total reboot of the series could be a good thing if the right creative people are involved.