New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned

Ant writes "Dark Horizons reports after much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise/series in recent years, something surprising has happened: The Halcyon Company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular movie series and intends to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company..."

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Another dead horse to beat.

Who needs Arnold?

[morgan_greywolf]

Start with the story of John Connor and his wife, of course, set in the future.

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Premonition.

[reality-bytes]

I just had this awful premonition of a new model of Terminator...

...It can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead...

"Meesa be back!"

Worth going back in time to prevent:

[ettlz]

Terminator: The Animated Series.

To be fair

[clickclickdrone]

He did say 'I'll be back'.

OMG is the George Lucas Effect!

[Soiden]

Terminator IV: A new John Connor Terminator V: The Robots Strike Back Terminator VI: The Return of the Terminator

Re:Premonition.

[morgan_greywolf]

I know I'd go back in time prevent that movie from ever being made!

Re:Premonition.

[clickclickdrone]

"Meesa be back!"

I always thought I was too old to be spooked by such a simple thing as the written word but you sir have guaranteed I'll be having nightmares tonight. {shudder}

Will it involve Arnold?

[Rob T Firefly]

Not for nothing, but the man is nearly 60 years old. Can you really plan any more trilogies around the guy's portrayal of an immortal android who never gets old or tired at this point?

Maybe if the last installment is a crossover with Indiana Jones, where they fight over Jello in a nursing home..

Re:Worth going back in time to prevent:

[ettlz]

Oh, fuck it: Terminator: The Musical.

Plot for Terminator 4

[Anonymous Coward]

All hope for humankind is almost lost. John Connor is on the ropes, he and his band of rebels have almost been completely eliminated by the latest rev of the Terminator line, the T666. However, like a bolt from the heavens, the real saviour of the human race emerges. It is non other than Darl McBride. It turns out that SkyNet has at least 1024 instances of SCO owned IP in it's source code. Darl is able to tie SkyNet up in litigation for years, allowing Connor to regroup ....

Re:Premonition.

[operagost]

John Connor shot first!

T4

[niceone]

T4: The return of the return of the machines.
T5: The return of the return of the return of the machines.
T6: The return of the return of the return of the return of the machines.

I could work in Hollywood.

Re:Will it involve Arnold?

[clickclickdrone]

Which bit of "Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project" are you struggling with?

Re:Enough

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Enough with the trilogies already. why can't we have a single good movie and just let that be?

Why? What was wrong with Highlander II and Highlander III? Errr, OK, bad example. Matrix II and Matrix III?? Hmmm. Alien3 and Alien Resurection??? OK, I give up.

Problem

[Bob54321]

Anchors drag things down, or at least keep them where they are. I think they need a better analogy. Perhaps something to do with cars...

It must be said...

[Grashnak]

I'll be back, and back, and back.

It's a fair cop..

[Rob T Firefly]

It might be the "original," but that "or" is also deceptively complex.

Spoilers

[p4rri11iz3r]

Terminator IV: A New Hope (more of a "hacker movie" like Swordfish) As human resistance slowly fails, it falls upon hackers to discover a decription code for the robots programming which happens to be: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Rebels win the day. Terminator V: Sony sues back (a lawyer movie) The robots sue the rebels of IP infringment. A climactic point is reached when John Connor is on the stand. The defense displays pictures of various robots (1 at a time) and asks the question, "Are these the motherf*ckers?" to which John angrily screams "YES!" Terminator VI: Return of the Sequels ...

Re:Enough

[Zoxed]

> Why? What was wrong with Highlander II and Highlander III? Errr, OK, bad example. Matrix II and Matrix III?? Hmmm. Alien3 and Alien Resurection??? OK, I give up.

Well, IMHO, Star Wars IV was the best in that series :-)

Trilogies

[jacobw]

The advantage of a well-done trilogy is that the first film sets up certain expectations regarding characters and plot. The second film then plays with those expectations in a surprising and suspenseful way. And when the third film wraps everything up, you feel a satisfaction that can only come from having lived with the characters in your imagination for several years.

Trilogies II: Trilogier

[jacobw]

...or at least, that's what I used to think. Then I found out that A TRILOGY KILLED MY FATHER--and it's COMING AFTER ME NEXT!!!!!

Re:T4

[Sponge Bath]

T7: Stack overflow.

Trilogies III: Trilectric Boogoloo

[jacobw]

Well, that was close. The trilogy that killed my father almost killed me, but fortunately, I was saved by a bunch of fuzzy, cute merchandising opportunities that had absolutely nothing to do with the tone or content of my first two posts. Whew!

Suggested Titles

[Migraineman]

Okay, so we've already got -
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Followed by -
- Terminator 4: Inescapable Truth
- Terminator 5: ?????
- Terminator 6: Profit!*


* The working title for "Terminator 6: Profit!" is "Please, oh please, watch this movie." I can't wait for some asshat to start with the whole "social contract" crap and how we, the good little consumers, have an obligation to go to the theaters and finance whatever garbage they're shoveling this week. Think of the children of the executive producer!

Re:Worth going back in time to prevent:

[Anonymous Coward]

Bombs Contain Chemicals and Moving Parts has the potential to be one of the most poignant songs of our time.

"Oh if I could only/
Be a Bomb/
How happy I would be!"

Re:Will it involve Arnold?

[AdamThor]

WE WAN'T OR!

I'm struggling with your use of the apostrophe here. What does 'wa not' mean?

Re:Premonition.

[Opportunist]

If it was made in the USA, it could become president.

As long as we're making sequels

[SteveFoerster]

K-Pax II: Invasion

"More humans... please... the first one was... delicious...."

Re:I'd pay to see...

[Opportunist]

You'd pay to see a 30 seconds flick?

Then again, when I look at some porn sites...

Re:That would anchor their company...

[sootman]

And #4 will be from the team that wrote that piece of shit #3. I think I'd rather watch a shot-by-shot remake of the original from Gus Van Sant with Anne Heche as Sarah Conner, Vince Vaughn as Kyle Reese, and William H. Macy as the terminator.

Re:Great

[bitt3n]

Another dead horse to beat.

well, you think it's dead, and you pointedly turn your back on it and clasp your love interest in a long and passionate kiss that gives it just enough time to rear up on its hind legs and then start galloping toward you out of the flaming wreckage with its beady red eyes all aglow. Terminator 4: OMG PONIES

Plot for Terminator 5

[Gzip Christ]

*** SPOILER WARNING! ***

Having been granted full ownership of SkyNet by the courts, Darl McBride repurposes it to hunt down and destroy Linux users who have failed to pay their $199 licensing fee. Even though John Connor is a BSD user, he realizes that it is only a matter of time before Darl turns on his kind as well. As an act of desperation, Connor forges an alliance with the remaining T666 units, knowing that he is facing the greatest threat to humanity yet. While the T666 units stage a valiant assault against Darl, it is clear that they are no match for his ever growing power. All appears lost until it is revealed that the assault was just a diversion to allow Connor to strike at Darl's Achilles' heel by getting SCO delisted from the NASDAQ.

I can see it now

[PhysicsPhil]

We'll have the new release, then a remastered release in which the Terminator doesn't fire first.

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[apostrophesemicolon]

[Spoiler alert]
Episode 4: Total Recall
After modifying part of skynet, John Connor managed to recall all robots back to HQ where he short-circuited their Sony power unit until they swell and explode. Towards the end the program managed to install itself on a retrotype animal robot.. something called the AIBO

Episode 5: Kindergarten Cop
Turns out before the Terminator was sent back in time to help young John, the old John sent another robot called the Eraser to assist toddler John in finding little Miles Bennett Dyson. The SkynetAIBO was also sent back in time and ate all of John's erasers, including the one that smells really nice. SkynetAIBO returns home sick from eating too much erasers.

Episode 6: The Last Action Hero
The future world is now finally at peace. Robots are again used as servants and slaves without soul. John refused to lead the nation of United States and settled to govern the state of CA-90210.
One day he suffers from major headache when a hotel chain heiress Barcelona Hotlin begged him to get her off her impending imprisonment due to excessive velocity transport without authorization clearance. He agreed to pardon her in exchange with sexual favor, which the SkynetAIBO secretly taped and sold all over the Interweb. SkynetAIBO becomes rich and builds a new ROBOTIC EMPIRE. (pitch to the next series of trilogy)

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Re:Who needs Arnold?

[servognome]

I have seen the future, and it's direct to DVD

Re:Who needs Arnold?

[Seanasy]

Obviously, they'll be produced by the Republican Party. So, who will be the new Terminator? McCain? Giuliani? Huckabee? Romney? Maybe Santorum in preparation for '12 or '16?

Re:Great

[It doesn't come easy]

Yeah, glad they didn't do that to Star Trek...

Re:Great

[SeaFox]

Another dead horse to beat.

It's not dead if we go back in time. Also, I have the exact date the foal was conceived right here, I suggest we go back and beat his mother this time before he's born.