Comments on: McG Updates ’20,000 Leagues’, Prepping Terminator 5

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:59:48 +0000

Opps, my bad. REALLY old article, sorry.

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:41:28 +0000

I thought David Fincher was doing 20K…

By: Disney Halts ‘20,000 Leagues,’ McG Off The Project - Screen Rant

Disney Halts ‘20,000 Leagues,’ McG Off The Project - Screen Rant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:42:11 +0000

[...] shooting locations including Japan, France and Canada. The Terminator Salvation director sounded pretty enthusiastic back in August when he talked about such things as how he was planning on contemporizing the story while still [...]

By: Wilbur J. Huffnagel

Wilbur J. Huffnagel — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:59:54 +0000

Here’s my 2% of $1 >
T:S was far better than the “Project Angel” script (Connor dies, and Worthington assumes his persona by putting on Connor’s skin. No joke).
Here’s my script architecture for T:S > I think the audience would have had a buy-in and a clamor for T5:
[a] opening sequence is not has hopeless as filmed and the motivation of the Resistance is to hit Skynet Central before the T800 comes online. Forget the ‘signal’ (see [b])
[b] Resistance Command builds a machine-killing virus, but needs to broadcast it to make it effective. Connor points out the weakness (tracking back to the source of the broadcast) and the Resistance Command initiates a back up that eventually saves their necks (a decoy that broadcasts).
[c] Marcus meets up w/ a medium-sized resistance cell, headed by Kyle Reese. That cell is part of the attack on Skynet Central @ the climax of the film.
[d] Connor and Reese meet at the end of the movie, and once he finds out who he is, Connor says “We gotta talk, you and I”
[e] Coda: Connor gets promoted; Marcus goes into a state of panic and disbelief (out of time; out of place; uncertain of his own nature) and Blair tries to console him; Kate goes into labor; Reese does NOT know what to make of Connor; Barnes cleans his rifle, eager for more action; Command breathes a sigh of relief; the Machines continue their work on T-800s in a different location, which is the set up for the next movie.
Oh, and one important point > T5 is more like SW:ESB in that the heroes are put in a state of crisis, leading to the end battle, where, cut off from Command, Connor takes charge, and wins the battle AGAIN. T6 has Reese and Uncle Bob going back to 20th Century.

By: Do Pending Lawsuits Mean No Terminator 5? - Screen Rant

Do Pending Lawsuits Mean No Terminator 5? - Screen Rant — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:46:26 +0000

[...] a couple weeks after we reported that McG was prepping Terminator 5, it appears that the film may be dead in the water. According to a number of sources, a proposed [...]

By: Deathstriker

Deathstriker — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:45:58 +0000

Quote:“An industry source then said that T5 would see the franchise (specifically John Connor) transported back in time to London, England. That, combined with what McG has said above, could mean that rumor could very well turn out to be true.”

I think McG should let the rumor continue to be a rumor.

Terminator Salvation started a new beginning for the franchise, and opened up a world of future war between humans and machines that hadn’t been seen much before. This is a new beginning, a new age for the Terminator Series.

However, the “out of the apocalyptic world and into the contemporary world”idea means that we will see the story take place in the past again. But we have already seen enough of the past in the Terminator Past Trilogy(T1~T3).
The idea of going back doesn’t seem reasonable nor acceptable to me.

“THE FUTURE IS NOT SET, THERE IS NO FATE BUT WHAT WE MAKE FOR OURSELVES!” This is the Terminator Spirit. For the new Terminator movies, the idea of John Connor leading the human resistance to the ultimate victory is magnificent, for we can see more glorious side of the spirit of humanity, and that is the core of the series, the soul of the franchise. The storytelling of the future war can show that better, so I hope to see the story remain happening in the future after what Terminator Salvation left off.

Besides, there is much more to explore in the future world. So why not leave the job of telling the story to the new Terminator movies？Terminator Salvation did a terrific job by giving us something we had never seen before, the unique plot, emotional characters, great visual effects, and at the same time, leading us to the deep thought of the differences between humans and machines——-THE STRENGTH OF HUMAN HEARTS.

Another reason why I would like to see T5 take place in the future is that, as a faithful audience of the franchise, I look forward to seeing more connections built between the new Terminator movies and the Terminator Past Trilogy. For example, how the Terminators got sent back, how the more advanced terminators which appeared in the Past Trilogy got created and how they would make a difference in the future, what happened to the important human characters……So you see, there is much more to explore in the stories, much more to tell to the audience, and much more for the great franchise that could be done to complete the magnificent series.

TERMINATOR, this word stands for more than just a name of a movie series, it stands for an age of inspiration.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:09:28 +0000

@Dentist

LOL, that would have been pretty funny if it was all instigated by McGriddle…

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:08:16 +0000

@critic

Not the events of T1 and T2, it wouldn’t be aware of the “original” date of Judgment Day before it was “changed” due to the events we watched in T1 and T2. Terminators don’t exist until after the whole Skynet goes crazy, causes Judgment Day blah blah blah. Remember in T1 and T2, they keep saying it’s going to happen in 1997? Well, obviously according to T3, it didn’t happen in 1997, but later, so the date was changed. But according to the Terminators and Skynet, they should only be aware of the new date, since that’s the only time it happens for them and the only time that really exists for them. Nobody should really know about how it was “supposed to happen” in 1997 but didn’t except John, Sarah, and anyone else who were told that it was supposed to be so. Even for them it was just someone’s word and even they don’t know for SURE that it was actually going to happen on that exact date…

What if you were “supposed” to have been born a day earlier, but sometime in the future, a time machine is invented and someone went back in time and delayed your mom and dad meeting by one day. Would you know that “hey, I was supposed to be born a day earlier.” Or would you only know of your current birth date? That’s the same with the Terminators, they are only aware of their current timeline, not of timelines that never happened to them.

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:26:50 +0000

Choice McG quote: “I’m reintroducing the fist-fight to movie sets. I don’t think there’s been a film I’ve made where there hasn’t been some kind of physical fight. I mean, I’ve been headbutted by an A-list star. Square in the head. An inch later and my nose would have been obliterated. I probably shouldn’t (reveal the name), but it was Bill Murray. Y’know, it’s a passionate industry.”

Which might put a slightly different perspective on the “Bale throws a wobbler” incident. I picture him now whispering to that DoP, “Shane, my friend, would you just go over there and shift that light a liiiittle bit to the left for me, please? Just a touch? Christian’ll love it…”

By: The Critic

The Critic — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:29:02 +0000

@Ken
why would a terminator, that gets updated constantly with information, not know about the events in T1 or T2 even if it was created after the fact?

By: The Critic

The Critic — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:16:37 +0000

How can John connor lead the resistance to victory in the future if Mcg sends him back in time? Has Mcg just decided to change everything?

By: 790

790 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:53:00 +0000

Yeah Rhaemye, Mcg want to use him as a resistance research scientist that’s working on a cure for childhood diabetes of something like that.
Of course Skynet captures him and turns his work into what will become the T-1000 more or less. That’s the rumor.

I think its an absolutely craptacular idea and just goes to show how completely out of touch Mcg is with the Terminator franchise.

By: Rhaemye

Rhaemye — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:43:39 +0000

On a sidenote: what about bringing Robert ‘T-1000′ Patrick back for T5? Weren’t there rumours about that?

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:13:24 +0000

Do we really

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:11:46 +0000

McG suffers from what he himself calls a “long-standing broad spectrum anxiety disorder”, and it’s almost as if he’s bringing some kind of massive self-destructive baggage to the table (which is probably why he feels he can put “a little bit more meat” on Nemo’s bones). Not exactly making things easy for himself, is he?

He’s had at least one (costly) public meltdown, refusing to board a plane to Australia to shoot the JJ Abrams Superman in 2003; he needs to be put on 24-hour watch and given a slap if he doesn’t take his medication. And once he’s back from the realms of his own super-ego, THEN he might be fit to make a movie.

I mean…London? That’s as bizarre a choice as Will Smith for Nemo. Can’t he just wear a hair shirt and leave the rest of us right out of it? Does we really want to see an endoskeleton hopping on board a double-decker bus? Or an HK being forced to pay the congestion charge?

Does anyone know why it’s London that gets singled out for the enactment of McG’s psychosis, as opposed to…oh, I don’t know…any other unlikely location on the planet?

By: The Critic

The Critic — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:56:17 +0000

If terminator 5 isn’t a movie about the future war like salvation should have been I won’t seeing it. Mcg is an idiot.

By: 790

790 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:06:10 +0000

Ken get ready to see Connor in London.
As well as HK’s and Harvesters in T5.

I have a friend that knows a guy in the UK that’s working on T5 and that’s what they’re gonna do. At least at this point. No sheet.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:02:07 +0000

Well, I don’t think anyone here thinks we should send HK’s or John Connor to London, lol. That is just a wacky idea…

By: 790

790 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:59:32 +0000

Ken J, I’m not trying to justify my point in a riddle. (Let me try and explain it this way),,,,

My view on a Terminator 3 sequel (T4), would have been a stand alone future war epic that would have wrapped up the Judgment Day timeline and covered the victory over Skynet.?. The events that we knew to take place (as T1-T2-T3 canon) would be shown as Time Travel side effects. We would see how Connor’s tech team under fire from “back up systems” of Skynet reprogrammed and sent back the 2 Terminators.
Reese wouldn’t know about them because he was sent back before they came on line. This would end everything Reese knew about the future (T1 canon) the second he left 2029.

You see how the future events can be altered to line up with T1,T2 and T3 canon… We don’t need to send HK’s back to London Mcg you moron!!!
Mcg took a dirt road on this franchise.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:33:19 +0000

Wha?? I’m talking about your explanation for the explanation given in T3, how it thought this, and they damaged this, and it was reprogrammed like that, to explain why it “thinks” it kills John, and why it says this wrong, and why it says this other thing, etc. And what do you mean “under heavy skynet resistance”? In case you missed it, they sent Kyle and the Terminator back AFTER Skynet was basically defeated and it sent the Terminators back out of desperation… So, if by “heavy resistance” you mean maybe a computer voice going “no wait, you don’t want to do that, you will be given cake if you don’t do that.” Then yes, they did it under heavy resistance… (wonder if anyone knows what I’m referring to…)