Terminator 4 in 2009, start of new Trilogy

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Good news for Terminator fans

The Halcyon Company has announced plans to revive the cyborg-battling movie series with at least three more films, after the production company purchased all rights to the dormant franchise for an undisclosed, though likely eight-figure, sum.

But while Halcyon founders Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson are looking to begin preproduction on Terminator 4 as soon as possible, they will do so without a leading man. Or man-machine.

Plot details for the fourth film have been kept under tight wraps, though are said to pick up with John Connor, heir to the rebellion, in his thirties, leading the remainder of the human race in its ever-worsening battle against the machines. As the film will mark the beginning of a new trilogy, rather than a continuation of the previous three installments, its unlikely that the Terminator himself,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, will even take part in the film reinvention, other than perhaps a cameo.

Of course, there are other reasons why the Ah-nuld won't be featured on the big screen. He has a bit of a schedule conflict due to matters of a more gubernatorial nature.

T4 has already been fast-tracked for production, with Halcyon looking to get the installment in theaters by summer 2009. As it is, Schwarzenegger will be leading the state of California through 2011.

While a spokeswoman for the governor asserts that "no law says he couldn't" star in the reimagined flick if he wanted to, the project was nonetheless "not even on his radar."

Still, the franchise's new minders aren't worried about extending the brand beyond Arnie.

"With T3, we included many incidental details and plot points that, along with the ain narrative, set the stage for an entirely new set of inter-related stories covering the future adventures of John Connor and the Terminators," producer Moritz Borman said. "This new Terminator trilogy will build upon the already huge worldwide Terminator fan base, which was both revitalized and expanded with the global success of T3."

In fact, T3, along with T2 and, well, plain old T, have grossed just over $1 billion worldwide since Terminator was first released in 1984.

"The Terminator franchise represents by far the most popular and successful franchise not owned by a major studio," Kubicek said. "We see this global franchise as a cornerstone of Halcyon's future business plans."


In addition to the big-screen cyborg saga, the company snapped up all future merchandising and licensing rights to the franchise, future revenue generated by T3: Rise of the Machines and a portion of the rights to an almost guaranteed TV series based on the films.
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Could be good if they do it right, however this gets me worried...

"an almost guaranteed TV series based on the films."

The fan in me wants to be optimistic, however the general theme i got from the article was 'shameless cash-in'...
 
I really don't see how this can be. T2 ended it as far as I'm concerned. It was stupid in T3 as it was basically just a case of "oh... no... SkyNet did actually survive being blown to smithereens... now back to the action!!!"

I assume T4 is just going to be a feature length "future war" like the glimpses we got in both T1, T2 and T3. So just truck loads of CGI and exoskeleton terminators.

I suppose it has potential as it's own individual movie. They will need to make bloody scary though to bring in the punters. I mean who wants to go see a post-apocolypse film with the occasional joke and cliché like in the previous Terminator movies? It would just totally ruin it. Needs to be really dark, really atmospheric and really ******* scary.
 
i really regretted watching T3.

T1&2 are immense, amazing pieces of cinema history. i bought the T2 Ultimate edition for the 15 minutes extra the other day and i think its worth it. gives the background into miles dyson which is nice.

they really just want to cash in on it now :(
 
Arnie was lowered into the moulton steel and as far as I'm concerened that was the end of the Terminator story. I love those two films and if James Cameron isn't directing then it isn't Terminator.

You just know these new films are going to be rated 12 and just rubbish.
 
I trust a press release that looks like it was written by an eight year old about as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

that said, T3 was about 18 minutes long.

I'd quite like to see the terminator universe explored more...

*n
 
T3 was really quite bad, with any luck they won't mess this one up so much... who am I kidding :(

P.S Awesome sig Penski :D
 
if this is the future war with the terminators, it will be excellent. scrap the time travelling I want to see massive war with gurrila tactics and some sort of end, however in this case I think the robots should win.
 
I'm not even going to count T3 onwards as even being truly part of the Terminator story.

I'm sure I'll end up watching them out of curiosity, but as far as the Terminator universe goes, the events from T1 and T2 are where the story ends for the viewer, the rest us undetermined.

If it was actually Cameron who was making another sequel for the right reasons, maybe then I'd be more willing to group the sequels with the original 2.
 
Sweet, I really enjoyed T3 (only the 2nd time i watched it mind!), the action is awesome and seeing a bit more about the war was pretty cool. T4 has potential to be spectacular, please make it a dark scary violence fest though! Lets have an 18 rated action film for once!
 
T1 + T2.. cant knock them, awesome films, and slightly before my time! which i guess makes it a bit more special for me!

T3 , had some fantastic effects, and i though continued the storyline verywell... however i didnt like the 'comical' side of it, if you ask me T films should be dark and scary (to an extent), like sombody said above!

they could make a T4 work quite well... but to make another trilogy of films based around 1 war could prove a little dull after a while.

and to me T without Arnie wouldnt be T at all :(

why'd he get all political :(

p.s i'm still going to goto the cinema to see it when it comes out!
 
It'll blow. Films like Star Wars were awful when they were remade not only because they weren't made very well but because they were the original backstory, something which quite frankly is better left to the imagination of the audience. This is exactly the same, the only difference being that the "backstory" is in fact in the future.

It'll have to be something really, really special to be not disappointing.
 
The Terminator (not the kiddy rubbish T2) is my all-time favourite film. I have always been fascinated by the future war part of the story. It terrifies me the same way that "Threads" does: a miserable, never-ending stream of misery.

If a new film was shot in that same gritty style as the future scenes in the original film, then I'd look forward to seeing it.
 
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