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Now’s Your Chance to do Terminator Right

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 am by Jamie

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Were you bored shitless with Terminator: Salvation? Do you have an idea that would completely breath new life into the movie franchise? Do you have a shit ton of cash lying around just waiting to be spent? Then you can purchase your very own Terminator movie franchise!

Since the last film did so scary good (NOT), the film rights to Terminator are going up for auction. You won’t get access to the previous films and this doesn’t include the television rights, but should you win the bid, you get to make new movies based on the franchise and possibly unfuck what has been fucked for the past two films.

Just so you know what kind of spare cash we’re talking about, two years ago Halcyon bought the rights from producer Mario Kassar for $25 million. Recently, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film rights went for $60 million. Halcyon expects the Terminator sale to outperform the Turtles sale which means you need to bring some big fucking cash to win this auction.

For argument’s sake, let’s say you did indeed land a giant stack of unmarked cash that was enough to comfortably out bid all your competitors for the rights to Terminator. What would the next Terminator film look like if you were producing it? Which timeline would you follow? Would you hire Christian “Cranky Pant” Bale to reprise his role as John Connor? Would you straight up reboot? There’s no fate but what you make for yourself.

Source: CNBC

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8 Responses to “Now’s Your Chance to do Terminator Right”

  1. AvatarNelly
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
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    If we all pool our money together we can buy the rights and do what should have been done in the first place - burry the rights and let the original movies shine and let them hold their place in history on their own.

    I’m not saying they were the best movies of all time, nor am I saying they were crap… but the more movies they make the crappier the franchise becomes.

  2. AvatarMcClaud
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
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    I’m also of the mind that we don’t make another Terminator movie for like 10 years or so. Just let it sit for a long, long time.

    And maybe when we have actual good directors and a decent direction in the special effects/CGI area, we can make a good Terminator movie.

  3. Avatarelucidarian
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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    What I really want is a rational time travel story. I want the adult resistance leader John Connor to be fully aware that he can do nothing to prevent the war that ravaged his world.
    The logic of time travel determined with the first movie hinges on the fact that Connor was able to send Kyle Reese back in time. That fact informs the manner in which temporal intervention affects reality in the Terminator universe. Travelling to the past creates a tangential reality in which neither Terminator or Reese can have any effect on the world they left, instead creating a parallel universe which might be better or worse than the one they knew, depending on whose point of view you’re looking at. That makes the most sense, otherwise the instant someone goes back in time, they have the opportunity to alter the future before anyone in that future can even think of sending someone back to stop them. For Connor to have responded, his timeline would have to be unalterable.

    So, that’s one basis, the existence of parallel universes, that will blanket my opinion of any subsequent Terminator movies.

  4. AvatarIan
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
    4

    Joss Whedon’s open letter to buy Terminator franchise.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/03/joss-whedon-on-offering-10k-for-the-
    terminator-rights-mostly-its-just-me-being-a-dumba/

  5. AvatarKilmor
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
    5

    Anything to show some kind of non-US-west-coast-centric terminator happenings.
    No fucking john conner at all.
    Like a huge fight going on for the uranium mines of Australia or something.
    Or the russians are tearing skynet a new asshole and skynet is trying to get a foothold in there.
    Maybe someone is trying to find some old stolen nukes in china to use to take out skynet.
    Fuck. John. Connor. He’s been played by 4 different actors now, give it a rest.

  6. AvatarGoMad
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
    6

    +1 for fighting in Aussie uranium mines.

    My 2cents? Steampunk Terminator.

  7. AvatarKevin
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
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    You do know nukes only last for about fifteen years right? Any older than that and they aren’t likely to go off due to degradation of the uranium/plutonium. I could definitely go for some huge ass future battle. The guy who directed Salvation didn’t do bad on the action scenes, so if we got him, said “no John Connor, no love story, just fight scenes and plot” we’d probably pull a pretty cool movie out of it. Although I have no doubt that Joss Whedon could do some fun stuff if he gave it enough attention.

  8. Avatarjoyvision
    Posted: Nov 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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    @ Nelly. Agreed. Bury the franchise. Pretend the last two films didn’t exist. Live life.

    Hollywood really needs to stop re-hashing “stopped in their prime” films. I can honestly see the day when they decide that a godfather remake is a good idea. Then they remake citizen kane, and maltese falcon.

    At that point movies will no longer be profitable, because small independant studios rise up and make original films that outsell their big budget, low brains counterparts.

    Ah i can live and dream.

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