All that stuff about the Terminator franchises rights being auctioned off and up in the air? Don’t even worry about. Think the last one was a commercial and arguable artistic disappointment? Get the fuck out of here. McG is stone cold- bothered by nothing, and he will be making Terminator 5 dammit. And Terminator 6. And it’s going to have Sarah Conner, and T-1000s and shit too, just watch.
These reality bombs were dropped in last night’s BD-Live chat with the director for the release of Terminator: Salvation on blu-ray (feel free to grab it from CHUD, if you’re into that sort of thing). The brave Mr. Chen at Gizmodo sat through the entire chat, and since there doesn’t seem to be a transcript of McG’s word-for-word statements out there, I’ll let you in on his interpretation of events…
7:02: In answering a question about if Robert Patrick (T-1000) would be in a future movie. McG said that he might be, if there was a scientist that wanted to model a Terminator after himself. (Yes, he took that base idea from Terminator 3, in case you were wondering.)
7:13: He just announced that he’s making another Terminator movie. Seriously.
7:16: Oh and for those people who are punching themselves in the face that he’s making another one? He said he’s making one after that.
7:46: He says Sarah Connor is going to be in the next film, but he’s not sure how he’s going to pull that off.
Oh yeah, and…
7:48: McG: “I’m disappointed in myself that I couldn’t make the best movie.” Holy shit. He just said he thought he could make a better movie than #1 or #2.
With 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea thoroughly sunk, McG may very well hope to cling to the Terminator franchise at it changes hands, and roll with it at its new home. That sounds… unlikely, to spin it positively. Halcyon will be closing the auction for the Terminator rights on February 1st (according to Variety), at which point the franchise will move to a new company as Halcyon moves on with its bankruptcy process. When the rights finally land it shouldn’t be too long before we have an idea if McG has a future directing murderous cyborgs, or if this is all as semi-delusional as it sounds.
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Calling it right now: McG directs a "reboot" of the first movie. Starring Ben Affleck as Kyle Reese.
What a stupid fucking idea for the T-1000, the only thing that got people hyped for TS was the whole FUTURE WAR thing and now in T5 we're gonna go back in time to pre-judment day? 2011, no less, even though 2003 has been clearly established as the year the bombs dropped. Jesus fucking Christ McG is a moron. We need to call in someone with talent, like say, Ben Affleck.
NO, Ben Affleck IS the terminator
Curious as to where all this Affleck stuff is coming from? AICN. It's amazingly unfunny anyway.
8:12: Mid-way through answering a question about heart transplants McG is interrupted as Ben Affleck walks through the door. Affleck proceeds to kick McG's ass then finishes the commentary himself.
Anyone know if they included Moon Bloodgood's nudes scene in the R rated DVD release? Is it is great as I imagined?
Tit scene is on youtube and it is laughably bad. It was NOT cut becuase it was too gracious… it was cut becuase it was lammmeeeeee.
Her tit scene was not that bad. What were people honestly expecting? Titty fucking? No, that doesn't happen there.
Cameron should use all that money he will make on Avatar and buy the rights for Terminator.
Oh, wait…
Give it up, McG — it's just not in you.
For christ's sake, if anybody who makes a living off of Hollywood is reading this: can NOBODY out there come up with at least one new franchise? Does it have to come from formerly revered movies and literature or the mind of a guy who's already raked in a billion dollars making movies? How hard is it to come up with something original that doesn't suck? I'm calling you 'professional' 'screenwriters' out. I swear to Christ if one more movie is announced that's part of an existing franchise over 10 years old, I'll singlehandedly destroy Los Angeles.
Outwriter (or whatever the fuck), I guarantee that there are screenwriters in Hollywood right now tearing what's left of their hair out because cowardly Hollywood execs won't listen to their ideas for new franchises. Either that or they have good ideas they aren't pitching as franchises, for good or ill. So, shut the fuck up and go and write a new franchise screenplay yourself, big brain.
Right now, I say give it to McG rather than anyone else. I quite enjoyed Terminator Salvation, it had enough going for it. And we don't need some other creative team going in yet another direction with it. Let McG have his trilogy, I'm hoping we get more of what was good about Terminator Salvation and less of the not so good. (I'm not calling anything bad in that film, there was nothing 'bad' – this wasn;'t Transformers or anything.)
I know Ben Affleck would be good because Jennifer Lopez Is tweeting that she would be Sarah Connor in the reboot
AW FUCK IT. you only live once. It's not like cameron didn't piss all over the franchise with terminator 3d. I'm in. I want to see that girl terminator fighting robocop and batman on roller skates. I just don't care anymore..
I'm in too. There were things i really liked about salvation. That said i also didn't like some things. (corny ass ending) Lets give McG a shot at the trilogy.
Uh, how can moon's scene be on youtube? It very clearly shows nipples and I thought youtube didn't allow that.
In fact between the theatrical and the blu ray, the ONLY difference I noticed was that one scene. But anyway, yeah its there, and its just a side shot but its better than nothing I guess. Though the scene is totally pointless.
Moon Bloodgood needs her own franchise called, Moon Bloodgood Flies Jets, Kicks Asses, Fucks Guys, and Kills Things!
Get McG the heck off of this, he's almost singlehandeldy killed the franchise with the awful salvation, bring in someone better for the next 2 to go out on a high note!! He senses this might happen and that's why he's going ahead talking about it to try and eliminate doubt…
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