Schwarzenegger halts acting projects

[ManOnTheWave]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

I doubt that this "hold" will last long enough to affect Terminator or any other project to which money has been committed.

This.

This'll be forgotten about in 6 months.

And this.

I really only wonder how his moment of silence will affect his schedule. I was slightly intrigued by Cry Macho.

 

[Klaus]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

He can work his way back in a Woody Allen sex comedy now...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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Schwarzenegger is overrated both as a politician and an actor.

Whatever. His rating as an "actor" is based entirely upon his proven box office draw - I don't think anyone, including Ahnuld himself, has ever overestimated his mastery of nuance.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

Still would like to see him in a WWII film, playing an Austrian. Maybe he can be a better actor when he's speaking his native tongue.

 

[Ryan8bit]

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If they don't wait on Ahnuld it's a guaranteed fail.

Part of me hates how synonymous Terminator is with Arnold. If the Terminator equals Arnold, then Terminator is old, outdated, and irrelevant.

Personally, I think the only way for Terminator to be at all successful now is to reboot similar to how Star Trek did.

 

[JarodRussell]

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Normally I couldn't care less about celebrity scandals... but what gets me is that Maria Shriver was a reporter before she married Schwarzenegger, and yet she wasn't able to discover what was going on in her own home. Shades of Lois Lane.

Yeah, um, err, what?

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

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If they don't wait on Ahnuld it's a guaranteed fail.

Part of me hates how synonymous Terminator is with Arnold. If the Terminator equals Arnold, then Terminator is old, outdated, and irrelevant.

Personally, I think the only way for Terminator to be at all successful now is to reboot similar to how Star Trek did.

I posted this in the other thread, but well they could either cast this guy, Roland Kickinger to replace Arnold

Or bring back Michael Biehn!

 

[Jetfire]

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^
This thread needs to be merged with that one.

here; http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=141093

 

[Christopher]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

Why merge them? This is a new development, and one that relates to all of Schwarzenegger's projects, not just Terminator. So it warrants its own separate thread. (If your wink smiley indicates you're kidding, I'm afraid I don't get the joke.)

 

[Admiral_Young]

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Yeah there really doesn't need to be multiple threads on this...Dream specifically commented on Terminator 5 so it could have been posted in the other thread. There is already a thread in Misc dealing with the scandal. Not to mention most people are focused on T5 because of his possible involvement.

 

[Neroon]

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^
This thread needs to be merged with that one.

here; http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=141093

The fact that Dream started 3 threads within minutes of each other warrants that this be merged with a current and existing Arnold thread...which was last posted in only 7 days ago.

If you have commented about this multiple times - which ought not to have been done in thread as the actual mod notify was more than adequate - and the threads remain as is, it can be concluded that they will be left as is and need no further comment. If there is further need of discussion, please take it to PM and not in this thread.

 

[Dream]

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If they don't wait on Ahnuld it's a guaranteed fail.

Part of me hates how synonymous Terminator is with Arnold. If the Terminator equals Arnold, then Terminator is old, outdated, and irrelevant.

Personally, I think the only way for Terminator to be at all successful now is to reboot similar to how Star Trek did.

Yeah, I think a reboot would be great. They have been failing as a franchise because they keep doing sequels to T2.

 

[Admiral_Young]

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Why would they not do sequels to Terminator 2? There is still material to explore post-Judgement Day. J How would a reboot be any different than a continuing sequel? The proper thing to do would be to end the franchise but that won't happen because studios obviously still see money to be made.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

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I'd rather see a season 3 of TSCC to be honest.

 

[Ryan8bit]

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Roland Kickinger to replace Arnold

Kickinger is too old. I mean, not Arnold old, but still it would be beneficial to pick someone younger.

How would a reboot be any different than a continuing sequel?

I think because already two movies and a show have tried to be a sequel and have failed. Sure, there could be the selective reboot where you ignore those shows, but then you have people confused about continuity. The best would be just to unshackle all that and start over if they want it to be successful. It needs to be branded as something new and not needing to know the continuity to understand it.

Also, I don't think the future after Judgement Day ever really needed any expansion. It was never really there to be the focus of the story. The focus of the story was the characters in the present relating to those events. Movies about the war seem kind of wanky to me.

 

[Christopher]

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I think because already two movies and a show have tried to be a sequel and have failed.

The difference between the movie sequels and The Sarah Connor Chronicles is that TSCC was only a ratings failure, not a creative failure. If anything, it was probably too smart for its own good, which could never be said about the third and fourth movies.

Sure, there could be the selective reboot where you ignore those shows, but then you have people confused about continuity.

That's what TSCC did. It was explicitly set in an alternate timeline where T3 never happened. And I don't recall there being much confusion about that premise. If one is a fan of a franchise predicated on time travel, it shouldn't be too hard to expand one's mind to encompass the idea of alternate timelines.

Still, I'm not saying a fresh start in a rebooted continuity couldn't work. I'm just saying that what makes a story succeed or fail isn't what format or subject it chooses, but the skill of the execution. People always try to concoct these systematic arguments for why one type of story is guaranteed success or another is guaranteed failure, but they're ignoring that if that were the case, it would be easy to design successful shows and films and very few productions would ever fail. Yet still, the majority of all productions are failures. So clearly there's no predictable formula. It's not a matter of what story you tell, it's a matter of how skillfully you tell it, and to a large extent how lucky you get.

 

[Admiral_Young]

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I'm sorry but I thought we were supposed to be talking about Arnold specifically and his projects...not other matters? This type of stuff is why this thread should be moved.

 

[Neroon]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

I'm sorry but I thought we were supposed to be talking about Arnold specifically and his projects...not other matters? This type of stuff is why this thread should be moved.

It's beyond time to let it go.

If you have commented about this multiple times - which ought not to have been done in thread as the actual mod notify was more than adequate - and the threads remain as is, it can be concluded that they will be left as is and need no further comment. If there is further need of discussion, please take it to PM and not in this thread.

If there are still comments to make about this, please continue them in PM.

 

[JarodRussell]

Re: Schwarzenegger halts actings projects

Roland Kickinger to replace Arnold

Kickinger is too old. I mean, not Arnold old, but still it would be beneficial to pick someone younger.

The fuck, too old? He's 43, for crying out loud, 21 years younger than Arnold. And where was Arnold 21 years ago? Preparing for Terminator 2. What the hell do you want? Justin Bieber?

 

[Neroon]

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"Hasta la vista, Bieber!" - I dunno... it could work.