Why can't they stop when they make a good film (Terminator 2) they always have to go too far.

And where is the bloody Paris Hilton angle? :)

This is going to be so terrible. The second in the trilogy will go straight to DVD and the third might end up as an unsuccessful television pilot. It'll be sold as an edgy reinvention of the Terminator franchise, as if the original was not edgy enough.

"Charlie's Angels director McG is hotly tipped to take the helm."

I can picture the opening credits in my head. The music will pound and roar, the title will mesh together with a big clanking noise, the director credit will come up, and the audience will burst into laughter.

He should appear as a guy caught by skynet and cloned for the first generation of terminators.

Rocky: The fight for Depends, or...

Terminator: The battle for WD-40?

What's next of washed up sequels?

Predator: Golf tournament...

The Paris Hilton angle is she will be the Sarah Conner type character, with Tinkerbelle as the killbot sniffing dog.

"He should appear as a guy caught by skynet and cloned for the first generation of terminators."

well, let's face it; he's far too fucked to actually play a Terminator anymore. it was questionable in the second one, laughable in the third.

The return of the sons of the Magnificent Seven ride again, The Sequel, meets Old Mother Riley, ll.

If they wanted to do a[nother] post-apocalyptic, man vs machines movie, why bother with the Terminator franchise? If they'd come up with some generic rip-off storyline, at least I wouldn't feel like my childhood dreams are being horrifically raped. The camp Arnie in T3 was bad enough, I shudder to think what outrages are still to come.

Who thinks that a telling of the part of the Terminator story that happens in the future is a good idea....?

Terminator 4-6 will almost ineveitably turn into Star Wars 1-3. They should leave well alone.

I imagine it'll be a load of old toss, and I agree with Ashley Pomeroy above and the likely to be very accurate title sequence.

Surely it's obvious? She will play the saviour of the human race after Skynet nearly wipes the humans out with a 10,000 strong platoon of PDA wielding SlingBots©, capable of throwing the latest in personal communications technology devices a distance of 17cB (or in prefered Vulture Central Standards, 3,927lg).

Paris Hilton will be the Jar-Jar Binks equivalent.

Will the US military have successfully made skynet before the movie comes out, because if they do we won't be subjected to the torture of watching it this time, hurray!

No Martin, telling the future part of the Terminator saga is a wonderful idea. It's just that with the same writers as T3, its garaunteed to be f*cked into a cocked hat.

Actually - as someone who has (legally) watched the pilot of Sarah Conner Chronicles, I think it could work.

It's pretty grim (including the bit that's now infamously been dropped from the pilot when the substitute teacher in school turns out to be a terminator) and gritty. Some tongue in cheek too though (thank the gods). Very cool time travel stuff from both sides - anyone can be prepared if they send agents back in time with enough years to build more time machines and resources.

Apparently they spent about $8m on the pilot - only a small jump more to having a film especially with the pace the pilot sets.

However the one sticking point is if they can keep up the plot quality. This could be the problem with the films too of course.

>smacks himself on the forehead<

Didn't think of that Brent...

It would redeem it's self slightly, if The Paris angle was her being the first human ripped to shreds in the opening scene? Or if Arnie was to cameo as the human template for the Terminator and be a wimpy, blubbery, geek of a politician....

Nah.. getting to much into this now....

Where's my coat?

Well be lucky if the US armed forces has found there arse with two hands a map and a GPS by then. Skynet is far to sain for there R&D.

It seems the only time they come up with anything half good is when a crazy plan accualy works (Like the Blackbird, or the Stealth Bomber)

Terminator 4-6 vs Star Wars 1-3

By Yousef SyedPosted Wednesday 10th October 2007 14:26 GMT Paris

Hilton will be the Jar-Jar Binks equivalent.

Sorry Yousef people were asking what she would do in the movie.

As someone who got the comics 15 years ago, Terminator v Robocop was a plotline that interested me... but so did Aliens v Predator, and we know how that turned out :(

Oh and Arnie can't be cloned as a Terminator, because in the first movie Reese told Conner that the first series of Terminators had rubber skin and were easily spotted...

Oh God, I'll get my coat.

Hollywood does it again. And shoots itself in the foot by allowing the director of T3, the abomination, to direct the next 3.

Summer 2009. I can hardly wait.

I think this has some promise, as long as the godawful McG isn't directing. The ending of T3 was the best part of the movie, the future war sequences have always been interesting so it'll be nice to see movies based on those. Arnie cameoing means they're not going to try putting him centre stage as a terminatior - I agree the best thing to get him there would be as a template for that model of terminator.

Of course, they could mess it up, big time. But, compared to the crop of big Hollywood fare recently, the concept alone is better than some entire movies.

@ Misha:

now you also know how us Battlestar Galactica fans feel, about the new monkeypoo flingfest that the SciFi channed has grunted out.

"Skynet is far to sain for there R&D." argh, my eyes are bleeding... Skynet is far too sane for their R&D!

Tis a fair comment - but given the US history of shooting their own troops, why does it come as a surprise that an automated system for shooting their own troops might be in development?

" [ ... ] why bother with the Terminator franchise? If they'd come up with some generic rip-off storyline, at least I wouldn't feel like my childhood dreams are being horrifically raped. [ ... ] "

Waittaminnit! Most people's childhood dreams are of being an astronaut, popstar or footballer when they grow up, or of falling in love and getting married, or changing the world for the better. Your childhood dream was to hope that the entire human race would be slaughtered by artificially intelligent killing machines who travel back in time? You're weird!

But on the other hand, if you ever wrote it down, you've probably got a good copyright claim for back-royalties on the entire series. Hang on, maybe you aren't quite so crazy after all....!

Battlestar Galactica - watched the pilot. 'Nuff said

Charlies Angels - rolls eyes

The Brady Bunch - refused to see

The Bionic Woman...without Steve Austin, the $6M Man? Are you kidding?

Predator went two movies too long (should have ended with the first)

Aliens should have stopped with the second

Terminator should have stopped with the second

Star Wars.... not going there.

Superman should have ended at #2

Batman should have ended at #3 (okay, I do like Robin, but...until Christian Bale...should not have been touched)

Where are the original ideas in Hollywood? Can we do nothing but retreads?

"Oh and Arnie can't be cloned as a Terminator, because in the first movie Reese told Conner that the first series of Terminators had rubber skin and were easily spotted..."

Must have super human intelligence in the future, personally when I see a 6 foot tall rubber trojan with a plasma rifle it its hands I invite him in for tea.

Predator: Golf tournament...

Didn't EA Games do that one a while back? One of there better ones for EA.

Cynar

Surely the PHA is that she becomes the saviour of the human race by bravely giving her body up as a sperm bank to preserve a wide variety of human DNA ?

</hat-coat-exit>

A clone of a clone of a clone , how truly unoriginal can you get ?

Wow these Hollywood writers are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel for this insipid stupidity so I guess the combined IQ of these wankers would not even reach two digits!

> Why can't they stop when they make a good film (Terminator 2) they always

> have to go too far.

Because the test screeners hated the good ending (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2#Versions_of_the_film, I recall hearing on a TV show that the good ending was ditched because of poor response from the test screeners).

Yes, It's Virginia's fault. Had they been happy with the good ending, there won't be any more Terminator movies after T2.

That'd be too edgy for EA - they only do franchises now. It'd have to be Predator: Golf tournament 4 before they'll even look at it.