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"Uh'll be back." - Another Terminator for Arnie

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He's baaack! Arnold Schwarzenegger is attached to star in a rights package that CAA is shopping today that will revive The Terminator, one of Hollywood's most iconic scifi franchises. The agency is dropping the package on studios this afternoon. I'm told that already, Universal, Sony and Lionsgate, and CBS Films are looking hard at the package. There is no screenwriter attached at this point, and Robert Cort is producing. This is the first real activity on The Terminator project since February 2010, when the property emerged from a bankruptcy auction and into the possession of Pacificor. The Santa Barbara-based hedge fund posted a bid of $29.5 million, with the promise that additional multimillion-dollar payments for each film would go to Halcyon, the company that made the 2009 McG-directed Terminator Salvation. That film starred Sam Worthington as the cyborg and Christian Bale as John Connor, and the storyline launched the battle between Skynet and the human survivors of the apocalypse, the war foreshadowed in James Cameron's visionary 1984 original film. Halcyon wanted to make several films but ran out of money. At the time of the auction, Pacificor beat out a combined bid by Lionsgate and Sony planning to make back-to-back sequels to bring the franchise to a natural creative conclusion.
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http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/arn...s-terminator-fast-fives-justin-lin-to-direct/
 
Here's hopin' he plays the human that the Terminator was modelled after, and not a Terminator. He's gettin' too old for that sort of thing, and it showed in Rise of the Machines.

Maybe they can get Robert Patrick, too, for the same reason...

Human resistance fighters used as default Terminator models.
 
I never thought the day would come that I didn't care about a Terminator movie being made. But here you have it. Thank you, Mostow and McG....you killed it.
 
There was 3 which was a mediocre movie with a pretty good ending and a few fun action scenes, but honestly not a whole lot to recommend it. And there was Salvation (the 4th) which I tried to watch the other day, but fell asleep. I did manage to wake up in time for the absolutely horrible ending of it, though.

After Terminator 3, I probably would have been at least a little excited for another one, but after Salvation and TSCC (sorry), I couldn't care less about the franchise any more.
 
Number three has the female terminator, and four has Sam Worthington as the terminator? "Rise Of The Machines" is the third?

I saw part of an episode of TSCC, which had the chick from "Razor" playing an officer aboard a nuclear submarine in the future.
 
All the movies are watchable, but none of them were really needed. It's why I loved the first season of the show. They ignored T3 and actually actually made sense. I wish the show did better.
 
I'd advise a nonstop Lost in Space complete series marathon, capped by the theatrical film, before I'd recommend T4 to anybody.
 
I must be the only person who actually really liked Salvation. I felt it was refreshingly different without being too wildly different and divergent.
 
RoJoHen said:
Kelso said:
If it's good: YAY!

If it sucks: BOOO!
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Yep.
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My thoughts as well. I liked the films and TSCC too, very sorry that one got axed.

Owain Taggart said:
I must be the only person who actually really liked Salvation. I felt it was refreshingly different without being too wildly different and divergent.
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I liked it too. So did hubby. That makes a whole three of us. ;)

I do like the idea of Arnold playing the human who was the model of the Terminator. But if Halcyon already had ideas for more films, the likely didn't plan for Arnold to be available. Any rumors about the plot?
 
The Terminator is a cool concept for an Outer Limits/Twilight Zone episode that somehow got stretched out to four movies, two seasons of a TV show, and 20 books. The fact that Terminator 2 ended up a classic in its own right is a minor miracle -- I really don't know why they continue trying to milk this pretty thin concept like it has the potential to produce another great movie.
 
Salvation is very, very silly. And on numerous instances. In stead of sending all of its cybernetic army to eliminate its primary target (aka John Connor) Skynet toys with him. Tossing him right and left and so on...
 
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