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by **Henry88** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:42 pm

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni10002465/

So let the speculation begin? Sequel? Prequel? Gritty reboot of the franchise?

by **Tom R VanSlambrouck** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:07 am

by **MouthForWar** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:47 am

Justin Lin sucks.

Anyway, I love Arnold (who doesn't?), but if it is a reboot, I kinda would like to see someone else in the role to make it new, and I'd rather he take on more new kinds of things like the movie he just signed on to do with Jee-woon Kim (director of I Saw The Devil, Tale of Two Sisters, and The Good, The Bad and the Weird)

by **king_ghidorah** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:56 am

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by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:07 pm

They're actually doing another Terminator movie? The question you have to ask is why??

Terminator 3 flopped domestically.
It grossed $150 million on a $200 million budget.

Terminator 4 flopped domestically AND Worldwide
It grossed $125 million on a $200 million budget. Worldwide it needed roughly $400 million to break even and only grossed $371 million.

Then the TV series got cancelled due to poor ratings.

So obviously people aren't all that interested in the Terminator franchise anymore, and Hollywood is making another one???

Now I know why Hollywood studios have been bleeding money the last few years.

by **jellydonut25** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:22 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:55 am

by **Gojiraknight** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:48 pm

The idea of a reboot is pretty dull to begin with and bringing Arnold back for it would make no sense.

Arnold could be carved out of solid rock and in the best shape of his life â€“ he's still north of 60. Practically, would a brilliant computer overlord send a 60-something looking cyborg to terminate an enemy? Or would it send a cyborg that looks like, well, Arnold, circa-1984?

Of course, you could argue that realistically a Terminator would be more effective if it blended in with the crowd. But then why go with a guy who (even at his age) looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger? Why not a completely innocuous looking person like, I don't know, Paul Giamatti?

A reboot with Arnold just sounds like all sorts of ridiculous.

Even if the movie didn't work, I personally liked where T4 was going with the franchise. Tell a different story with new characters in each, but set it in the post-apocalyptic future with John Connor as a background character. Hell, have Arnold in one as the human template for what eventually becomes The T-800, as was suggested in T3.

by **jellydonut25** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:14 pm

imho, Terminator Salvation failed precisely because John Connor was a nobody character...so was Kyle Reese for that matter.

Characters that have become synonymous with the series were relegated to the background while Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Worthington took center stage.

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