Deluded MCG says he is directing more TERMINATOR movies
Either McG is grossly ill informed, or it’s a case of absurd wishful thinking but nevertheless during a BD-Live chat for Terminator Salvation yesterday, the director who has had a real tough end of the decade (failure of TS, the failure to get a big movie off the ground at Disney) claimed he was still planning to helm the fifth and sixth installments of the Terminator franchise.
Not only that but Sarah Connor would be making an appearance, and he repeated his previous intention of casting Robert Patrick to cameo as the scientist who becomes the model for the T-1000 terminator.
This comes despite news from Variety last week that the auctioning off of the rights to the Terminator series is expected to be concluded by February 1st 2010, as part of the Halcyon Co’s bankruptcy process. If all goes to plan, post that date, the new owners will have complete control of the future of the series and will then decide what direction they want to take with it (probably a full reboot) and it’s extremely unlikely that McG would be in their plans.
The trades said;
“Over the past few weeks, Halcyon and its professionals have engaged in in-depth discussions and negotiations with numerous serious potential buyers, including several major movie studios,” Halcyon said. “In addition, a number of attractive refinancing alternatives have also been presented. In order to maximize the value of a transaction for all of the company’s creditors and stakeholders, we are fully analyzing all these options.”
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I feel like I am the only one in the world that thought TS was an awesome movie. Bale was awesome as John Connor and Sam Worthington was even more so as Marcus. I couldn’t take my eyes of the screen the whole film. I’m a big fan of the franchise and I have no complaints about McG directing more of the films. As for all the nerds that complain about plot holes in a series of films about time-traveling robots…suspend your disbelief, quit bitchin and go find yourself a girl…dorks.
i didnt have a huge problem with the new terminator movie it was way better that transformers 2 and i think they could make a secound one a lot better.
My problem isn’t with the plot holes, its with the fact that the movie is basically Transformers 2 with less robots. Its pretty and nothing else. For it to have plot holes, it would need a plot first. TS was just an effects extravaganza.
Its pretty and nothing else. For it to have plot holes, it would need a plot first.
*sigh* It had a plot, dude. C’mon, you may not have thought it was a good one, which is fair enough, but it was there.
McG talks a lot of shit, that’s documented and proven, so I wouldn’t pay any attention to what he says.
What little plot there was didn’t really go anywhere, that’s why I don’t consider it a plot. The resistance is in exactly the same place they were when the movie started basically. Only difference is that now Kyle Reese is there. Aside from that what changed? That script was awful and the fact that McG actually believed in it enough to film it just shows what a hack he is.
Salvation was awful. Having said that. I’d still like to see another Terminator movie.
I’m still waiting for that bad ass John Conner story line to see light.
He’s supposed to be this great leader.
I want to see that movie. Minus MCG.
I didn’t think it was so bad. my major beef with it is that it felt so incomplete, it doesn’t stand up on its own as a proper film. if you were to say watch all the terminator movies back to back then it might be more enjoyable… but until tnt does the marathon i probably won’t be watching salvation any time soon. that said i do think that mcg did lay some groundwork for what could be, or could have been, a great second trilogy.
McG is such a dope. Whoever buys the franchise should be smart enough not to bring him back. Please don’t bring him back. His ideas for the next movies, sending HK’s back in time, is the worst idea ever. Finish the future war.
Terminator:Salvation’s only really weak aspect was its rather shameless lack of depth. On the other hand the tv-series held some of the best written characters and story structure since the second film. the plot that fat-ass, McG has unvield it worse that the fucking highlander sequels. seriously. i believe that they should instead make a film focoused on the T:SCC story and have it co-inside with Salvation’s by pulling off a moment where kate — John’s wife — is talking to him and the he’s gone. Suddenly Marcus is alive and well — yay! — then enters Cameron who, acting as an emerssary for John Henery — the brother of Skynet (the tv-series ver) — enters. a massive blow out occurs when the other machines enter and cause a rampage. The plot thickeness when, in the fall out of this attack, John Connor (Thomas Dekker) appears through a rift/time dissplacement field and is confronted only to see his father, kyle and uncle derrek. This compensates the the better of the two series being canned, aka, the show and the lame excuse for a leader that Bale was is no replaced by the younger stronger and overall better John Connor taking his place. from there you can make a more susspensefull and cheaper film, noting a little movie called Serenity,hahaha, to better fill the gape left by Salvation’s lackluster box office earnings.