[MOVIE] Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins

[Emperor]

Variety reports that Warner Bros. has acquired North American distribution rights to Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, triggering an early 2008 production start for a film that seeks to reinvent the cyborg saga with a storyline to be told over a three-movie span.

 

WB plans to distribute "Terminator Salvation" in summer 2009.

 

The "Terminator" film franchise got a new lease on life in spring, when privately funded Halcyon and its co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson teamed with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines executive producer Moritz Borman to acquire film, merchandising and licensing rights from ex-Carolco partners Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar. Kubicek, Anderson and Borman are producing the new film, with Peter D. Graves as executive producer.

 

WB had first right of negotiation for domestic theatrical and TV distribution rights because the studio played the same role on 2003's Jonathan Mostow-directed "Terminator 3."

 

The producers said that the new film will carry the size and scale of "Terminator 3," and will have an event-sized budget.

 

Sony Pictures Entertainment, which distributed "Terminator 3" in most overseas territories, is expected to get first crack at a reprise. Several other territories are spoken for, including Japan, where Toho-Towa is expected to distribute once again.

 

A screenplay has been completed by "Terminator 3" writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and the financiers and studio are close to locking a director. While industry buzz has Charlie's Angels director McG as the odds-on favorite for the assignment, the producers said no final decision had yet been made.

 

"This is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind," Anderson told the trade.

 

Borman said: "The third film was really the conclusion of what happened in the 'now.' You will find the most-loved characters, but the intention here is to present a fresh new world and have this be the first of a trilogy."

 

The producers said it wasn't yet clear whether Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back for his fourth appearance in the franchise that launched his movie career. "T3" was the last film in which he starred before becoming governor of California.

 

"We've left it open for him to maybe do a cameo," Borman said. "He has an important job, as we know, and the final decision will be based on his desire and availability, along with what the director wants."

 

 

[Silver]

please just be a cameo and not a starring role...

[ironcross]

dont be back .......  please

[HighWiredSith]

The Buzz word for the last couple of years was "DARK"

"Stars wars EP III is DARK"

"Batman Begins will be DARK"

"This new show will be DARk"

 

This year, it's "REBOOT"

Star Trek - REBOOT

James Bond - REBOOT

Now Terminator???

 

Terminator III sucked horribly.  Why are they still making more?

[SinisterDeath]

"I'll be ba-"

*Boom HEAD SHOT*

[ironcross]

isent shwartsneger's term in office comming to an end soon?  i know cali only lets you be gov, like twice, so maby he will have some free time. if not they could cgi him in.  the acting couldent be any worse

[The Outsider]

isent shwartsneger's term in office comming to an end soon?  i know cali only lets you be gov, like twice, so maby he will have some free time. if not they could cgi him in.  the acting couldent be any worse

 

It would only be his first term coming to an end, I think...

[F Horn of Valere]

They could still get him in well... think cameo. Like if the very last scene you see this brand new terminator prototype they just built... kind of like darth vader in ep III

[ironcross]

im not shur if they count his first term or not cause it was "only" three years, not a full four. i mnot entierly shue of the legalities involved there. i just know the law they passed a long time ago said that no one could serve more then two terms, and he was just re-elected a cuple of years ago. 

[HighWiredSith]

Is it just me or is "THE FUTURE BEGINS" a really stupid title for pretty much anything.

 

Here is what I would like to see an any Terminator film - post nuclear war skynet thing, Reece and John Connor meet for the first time, the resistance is formed, the terminator's show up and guess what, they all don't look like Arnold which would kind of defeat the purpose of an infiltration unit. 

[Shendare]

I found the Governator's cameo in "Around the World in 80 Days" stupefyingly hilarious.

[Samuraiflip05]

Well as much as I enjoyed the "Terminator" series, it was getting a little far fetched that the T101 could continue to take down/hold up the insanely advanced models in each movie.  So I guess going into the future was the only real chance they have of progression....But a trilogy....Maybe 1 more film about the war and the formation of the resistance with the finale of the NEW T101 model.  I don't see this making it beyond that.

[Shendare]

Never underestimate the destructive power of Suits pillaging franchises for a few more bucks.

[Samuraiflip05]

So, so sadly true. :'(