Terminator 4

I really want to see how it enRAB and after T3 and watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles I no longer believe the franchise neeRAB Arnie anymore.

They've been harping on about this kid leading the resistance and I'd like to see it and hopefully have them win the war
 
It kinda lacks the depth of the second film, though, unless they add something to it.

I'm not a fan of the first film as it is just an extended chase sequence - it's well done, but really there is not a lot to it. The second film has so much more. It's especially interesting how, in T1 Arnie starts off looking human but his machine nature becomes increasingly apparent as bits are knocked off him, and in T2 he starts off known to be a machine but gradually becomes more human - reversing the process. Meanwhile we see the impact on Sarah Connor who has become somewhat driven and machine-like herself, building up to the scene where she intenRAB to murder the scientist in cold blood.

So the question is whether we should have similar themes to explore in T4, or whether T2 was an aberration and T1 and T3 are more typical of the franchise, and we just need a lot of special effects chases.

That said, T2 was very different to T1, just as Aliens was very different to Alien. The third film in a series is often where it falters, because it is where the formula is established and T3 and A3 just deliver the same stuff warmed up a little. A T4 based around the future war would almost have to be very different to the first three films. Which could be good. Then T3 would just been seen as a linking piece.
 
This was on Moviehole.net about Terminator 4:

"The trades announced today the title for the next “Terminator” movie.

"Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins”, shooting early next year, will be the first of three new movies fixing on a new story inside the Terminator universe. In other worRAB, no Arnold, no Biehn, No Hamilton, No Danes, No Cameron, No Mostow, and No “I’ll be Back”.

The WB has snapped up the rights to the film, leaving MGM rather saddened. The studio had hoped to convince the powers-that-be to let them release the latest instalment but some recent kafuffles prevented such a deal from coming off (though Sony looks set to release the film in overseas territories, including Australia)."

"Halycon CEO Derek Anderson tells Variety that they deliberately didn’t want to include a number in the title because its an all-new story.

"This is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind," he says.

Exec Producer Moritz Borman added: "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."

Interesting to note that Borman said it’ll still feature ‘the most loved-characters’. Assuming that means John Connor will be back – but played by a new character.

And good news for AB King, Schwarzenegger “may” make a cameo. (Though it sounRAB like your typical ‘don’t burn any bridges’ response to being asked whether Arnold may make an appearance in the film)

"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."
 
It looks like Terminator 4 may have a director according to Chud:

"It's a big day for scoops from trusted and reliable sources. The latest comes from Duckie, who has been hearing buzzing about a name that is sort of attached to direct Terminator 4: McG.

This doesn't mean McG IS directing Terminator 4, but that he's in talks about it. The film is being set up as a pre-striker; the script just got turned in last week and the good people at The Halcyon Company would like to get this sucker into pre-production stat. Some talk had the movie shooting in the summer of 2008, but that's right when the strike would start, so expect this bitch to be going before the cameras in the first months of the new year.

Terminator 4 is really the movie we've been waiting for and that Terminator 3 failed to deliver: it's after the apocalypse and John Connor is organizing the surviving humans to resist Skynet's army of robots. I imagine this would be the Terminator origin story - the first time a human looking robot is used to infiltrate the ranks of people. There's something delightfully Planet of the Apes about taking the series into its own backstory like this.

Of course the question is: is McG right for the film? I don't have a huge problem with it - the guy can aim his camera and capture images; We Are Marshall showed that he doesn't have to do everything in MTV style. And frankly, Terminator 3 was such a bad case of holding pattern blues that I think this series has burned off any prestige it once had. Who expects a Terminator 4 to be a GREAT movie? I'm willing to settle for an awful lot of fun. McG can do that."
 
I'm not sure I like the idea of another Terminator film. Although the war with the machines was obviously a big part of the story, I preferred the direction that the first two films took - the battle between a single protector and a single antagonist to see who can reach the intended victim first.

I didn't like the third film much. It had some funny moments but it was lacking something. The first film was my favourite, even though the second one probably had more depth.
 
This was on Aintitcool.com about T4 casting:

"The big talk of the internet right now is a rumor over at CHUD concerning McG possibly stepping behind the camera for T4.
I'm not automatically against the idea, but I'm not too hot on it, either. I mean, I like Jonathan Mostow's films, but T3 didn't work at all for me. It's not that I hated it, but I was so indifferent to it that I almost wish I hated it because then I'd feel something one way or the other.
On top of that bit of rumor, I've also heard another juicy rumor concerning someone who could slap his living tissue over metal endo-skeleton. I'm hearing that Vin Diesel is taking meetings with the Terminator people and the assumption is it's about him being a Terminator... of course, I'd love it if they cast him as one of the resistance fighters instead, but I could see him being a good Terminator.
No matter what happens... if McG does it, if Vin Diesel joins... whatever... I hope that they go back to a kind of gritty realism that James Cameron did so well. We've always wanted to see the future war in all its glory... I know I've been dying to see it since I read the T2 novelization and got that whole extra chunk as John Conner breaks Skynet and senRAB back Kyle Reese and the re-programed T-800. But I think one of things that turned me off about T3 was just how slick it looked.
I'd love it if the future war is dire... if it matched tonally with the glimpses we saw in the first Terminator film."
 
are they really desparate for directors for this movie? is there a shortage of good action directors in Hollywood? cause i cant see any other reason why they would get the guy who is most famous for Charlies Angels and the OC to do a Terminator film.
 
I thought T3 was a lot better than it should have been.

Schwarzenneger halting a political career ( The Governator)
and being 60ish.
A new Director. No Sarah Connor.

It could have been a lot worse:D
 
I heard this rumour yesterday. Up until now, I thought Terminator 4 was going to be an abysmal disaster...but I think that Christian Bale as John Connor sounRAB very promising. Now.....please don't let the Terminator himself be played by The Rock/Vin Diesel/etc
 
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