We’re now less than a month away from the release of Terminator Salvation, the latest installment in one of the most successful sci-fi franchises of all time. Fans are gearing themselves up for an explosive time at the theater, expecting plenty of bang for their buck, and I’m sure the final product won’t let them down.
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The finishing touches are just being put onto Terminator Salvation right about now and yet director McG is already looking ahead to the inevitable sequel. I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to say that there most likely will be a sequel – with the amount of money Salvation is sure to make (can you really see it flopping?) I can’t see there not being one. However, with a sequel in mind, what does McG see it involving? Well, he’s let his thoughts on that very subject be known.
[WARNING: the following could be considered SPOILERIFIC since it hints at how Salvation may end]:
“I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011… John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the [sic] militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be f***ing awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who famously played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.”
This comes from a conversation between McG and director of the first two Terminator flicks, James Cameron, as they met to discuss the fourth in the franchise.
Wow, what I wouldn’t have given to have gotten in on that dialogue!…
McG is a director who I think gets more of a bad rap than he deserves. Sure, he directed Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, but he’s not directed nearly enough films to label him the atrocious director that some have been so quick to call him in the past (for example, the first Charlie’s Angels was a lot of fun… c’mon, just admit it…). However, I may just be willing to lend my ear to those many avid Mcg-naysayers when he says he wants time-travel to be a plot-point of T5.
Why? Haven’t we been there and done that? All three of the first movies involved people (well… robots…) getting sent back in time to complete a mission, so I really don’t see the need for doing pretty much the same thing again. We have been teased with the idea of the actual war between man and machine for decades now, and when we finally get Salvation which (hopefully) showcases that in all it’s glory, they’re just going to revert back to more of what we’ve seen before with the fifth movie?
Seems like a poor idea to me…
When it comes down to it, I trust McG with Terminator. From all of the many, many things we’ve seen so far (such as trailers, posters, images, info and so forth) it really does look like a heck of a lot of fun at the very least, and perhaps it will even be at the same level as the first or second movie (I don’t know if it will quite make that cut, but you never know…). It looks like he’s giving us the all-out war-centric Terminator movie we’ve been yearning for, and so I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his time-traveling plans for the next movie.
I just hope he can completely eradicate that doubt when the time comes…
So what is your opinion about a Terminator movie possibly involving time-travel again? Should they do it because it’s in tune with what we’ve seen with the first three? Or should they now set it exclusively in the future?
For all of what was said by McG, including his thoughts on the franchise up until this point, you can go to FilmJournal.
Terminator Salvation is set to open on May 21st in the US, and June 3rd in the UK this year.
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WAIT YOUR SENDING ARMIES OF ROBOTS FROM THE FUTURE TO THE PAST?SO THEY ALL HAVE SKIN ON THEM..?
Daniel, maybe you can tell me what you consider an emotional science fiction film?
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When I watch Terminator or Terminator 2 I don’t find myself dwelling on time travel, (you say the films are based in).
The story is more about a family (mother & son) trying to survive and save the world from an evil computer system.
I don’t remember Sarah or John discussing how they were going to stop the time machine from being built or how cool its going to be in the future when we can time travel.
Maybe I missed those scenes…
Did you see the scenes where people traveled back from the future using a time machine ? Because I didnb’t.
It’s fairly simple an emotional scifi film is a scifi film with emotion actually in it. There was not one emotional moment in either of the original films. Everything was moving way to fast and there was far to much action for anyone to even stop and think. I have always said Terminator was a brilliant idea that I think had been poorly realized because they took a story that could be filled with bad ass action and great depth and emotion then they made a straight up action film with it. It had a good plot, but the films were all about watching the next big action scene. Not to mention Arnold is one of the worst actors I’ve ever scene. Lucky for us he only played a Robot.
Ok, I’m going to time travel out of this conversation loop you are trying to keep me in Daniel…
Happy trails,,,
While I do understand both 790’s and Daniel’s arguments, I have to disagree with Daniel that the first 2 movies were not emotional. IMO, they were very emotional. In the first, Reese is sent back to protect a woman he fell in love with just from a picture and story. I felt much emotion during the scenes when they were not fighting for their lives (which was much of the film). In the 2nd, we have a juvenile who finds out that he will become some type of savior but who also finds that his mother, whom he loves, is not some crazed freak but is a woman who is hard-nosed and determined to stop a horrible war (like there is another kind). Sarah sees this new Terminator as some type of father-figure for John but realizes, at the end, that he too must die to save John and the future. The feelings that John displays in T2 were very strong.
Yeah there is more to the Terminator movies than just action….thats why the first two were great, T3 on the other was just about action.
While I am looking forward to “Terminator Salvation” I think McG shouldn’t do this, I personally hope that Cameron will come back after “Avatar” is released.
Why cant it just be a trilogy about the future war!? Wasnt that the whole idea of this trilogy? We already have T3 and The Sarah Connor chronicles. We dont need another T2-rerun.
We want to se post apocalyptic battlefields and friggin sharks with friggin lasers on their heads!
If this is true, T5 is all in the future: http://notasoul.t35.com/shh
Sounds like a very poor fan made script to me .
I have wrote down about 26 times, and now i will write down again: A real and not just a real terminator fan, but for the simple audiences are very dissapointed about this plan of T5 idea. It is totally madness plan! Maybe for a 10-15year old kid and some fool who don’t know nothing about terminator film are like this idea, and these people only 10% or 15% but the other percent of audiences are VEEERRYYYY VERRYYY NOT INTERESTED AND REFUSE THIS TOTALLY WRONG IDEA… So the story has to rewrite…This is as serrious as the idea was in the T4: when connor has become a robot and killed: reese, his wife, and the others…so…no comment
It is time to think it over … I don’t understand, perhaps the T4 is not a J.Cameron feeling film, but it was good for a lot of people who i asked, and therefor i can’t believe what happened to McG that he write a mad plan for T5…:( It’s very serrious!!! 
Our fan member hope they recreate this idea as soon as possible 
>@DAVID GUIVANT, it was explained in(Terminator) that Skynet >couldn’t locate Sarah Connor’s exact location because the >nuclear war. (Made things a bit messy)
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>Therefore finding records of her parents wasn’t an option
Umm a Terminator just has to travel back in time to BEFORE Judgement Day and then find some way to communicate that information to the future Skynet. I think the continual sending of Terminators back in time is lame. Remember in the very first Terminator the time travel machinery was supposed to be destroyed so how did they come back in T2, T3? That was never explained in the movies
@Zach
when did they say the time travel machine was destroyed? i don’t remember that.
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