Will Christian Bale play John Connor in Terminator 5?
For the production of this film, Bale’s demands to alter the script to give him much more screen time could have been the downfall of the movie. He didn’t exactly sell this movie either by just looking at the numbers so far. In the movie, his character was one-dimensional and we all know about the on-set tirade. The altered script took away from what could have been an interesting plot with the Marcus Wright and Kyle Reese characters.
Hindsight is 20/20 and we don’t know definitively what the reason was for the movie’s poor performance. So, let’s look forward instead.
About a month ago, prior to the release of Terminator Salvation, Screen Rant reported on McG’s thoughts of where the sequel would likely go. This is what was said:
“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.”
So, the plan is to return to the classic Terminator go back in time plot device and bring what we saw in the future to present day. I can see why they want to do this as it worked for the first three films and it’s interesting to see what futuristic science fiction elements are like when thrown into the modern present day.
Hunter Killers will probably destroy this beautiful scene…
Well, early this morning we heard more on that front. According the Bleeding Cool, their “industry sources” have informed them that the next Terminator installment will in fact see John Connor and the resistance travel back time to London, England. This falls in line with what we heard in the past but we’ll need to wait to see if the next project is greenlit before getting deep into it.
If this happens, expect many tourist attractions to explode.
What do you think of a Terminator 5 and another time travel story?
Source: Bleeding Cool
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Chris, why do you keep posting about James Cameron? We’re just letting you know how T3 and T4 were inconsistent with the first two movies. Count the number of times we’ve mentioned Cameron and count the number of times you have.
T3 & 4 are inconsistent with the first two films. Keep defending or attacking Cameron if you want, I think the blame actually lies with Ferris and Brancato.
@ Ken
Ken if Cameron stayed true to the original alien movie, then why did he change the alien’s look on their head? find a excuse for that.
anyone else notice in t3 when hes under the bomb door at the end he develops a third arm, one arm grabs the tx, one opens his chest up, whats holding the door up??
lol i guess you could throw different ideas out there, but that door was coming down quick, maybe it broke.
woulnt the radiation get in der.. lol
Forget it mike, according to him, T3 is a perfect movie and it’s impossible that the movie makers made a mistake. John Connor wasn’t 10 like the computer monitor on T2 said he was, he’s 13 because the makers of T3 said so, and the T-800 model 101 is now a T-101 Model 101 aka T-800 or something, whatever, because T3 said so… Anyone who thinks otherwise is just “hating” on the movies for no reason at all, regardless of the reasons we state. So who cares…
@rich
Actually, that’s exactly what I thought too the first time I saw it. But apparently the camera is on him, he’s holding the door up, the camera moves away and back on him and now magically he’s on his side so his arms are free, lol. Not exactly sure how he’s able to move his arms so freely and with so much dexterity and power when his shoulders are being crushed by a huge ass blast door, but whatever, don’t want to seem like a “hater” rich…
ya i thought shoulder too, but i figured he being a machine and all and as much effort as to took him to hold up the door with his arms, dont think his chassi/ shoulder be able to support it. and i definantly dont think hed be able to move to easy.
i dont think thats hating, has nothing to do with the terminator verse. just an oversight the director must have made on purpose to better capture the drama in the scene.
like spielburg did in jurassic park.
@ ken
c,mon Ken, dont shy away from the question. why didnt Cameron stay true to Scott’s alien’s look? make up somthing. and i didnt say T3 was a perfect movie. T1 will always be my favorite outta the franchise. John’s age wasnt that big of a deal. have some high sight about corny of what a 10 yr can do that a adult can. cry me a river. made more since for john to be 13 so he can be older in the new films. Again Ken or Mike, why doesnt arnold simply emply hes a T-800 instead of a T-101 as he mentioned he was in T2 and T3. As for the T3 ending with the blast door, didnt it ever occur that maybe it jammed? Anyways, im thru with people who are in such denial of facts. Consider the conversation over with.
@ Mike, Ken , Rich
I apoligize for what i was saying, i forgot i was i said earlier about how Arnold being a T-800. It was one my friends confusing me on the subject cause of what he both heard on T2 and T3. You guys can go back to page 5 on here, and read my comment about the T-800. Date was 6-21-09
Uuhh, chris, I’m not shying away from anything, I thought you were just trying to be rhetorical. Something called technology changes, they are able to put more detail, like they do in EVERY sequel… the practical dummies looked different from T1 to T2 as well… The future war sequence also had a few differences between those two, probably also attributed to advances in technology and filming techniques…
He stayed true to Alien because they reproduced the same way, they killed in the same manner, Ripley didn’t magically change age, etc…
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