[Unknown Target]

(Shamelessy stolen from Mektek.net)

http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20060911terminator-4-announced

MGM has announced that over the next few years, they will release half a dozen huge tentpole films in the $200 million budget range, one which will be likely be Terminator 4.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't expected to return in anything more than a cameo. The original plan was to introduce a totally new Terminator.

"We did have to think about a new franchise character. He couldn't carry the movies anymore. So that caused us to have, I think, a pretty novel approach about what the new terminator would be like, screenwriter John Brancato told Latino Review in 2004. "Again, they made me actually sign things that I would not leak. As much as I would like to brag about the script, I can't really tell you."

Rumored Terminator replacements over the last couple years have included: Ralph Moeller, The Rock and Orlando Bloom (Seriously. This must have been before Elizabethtown hit the fan).

But with Arnold's political career possibly coming close to an end, things may change. I'm sure it's very possible to rewrite Arnold back into the story.

Terminator 3 stars Claire Danes and Nick Stahl are not expected to return for the fourth film.

"None of the cast is coming back," Stahl told SciFi Wire in early 2005. "The T4 story is changing conceptually. I believe it's a jump to the future, so my character will be quite a bit older. That's all that I know. So I'm not coming back, which is a drag."

Claire Danes has said that she would be back if there were interest: "Well, I've contracted to do one again," she said in a 2002 SciFiWire interview. "If audiences would like to see more of me doing this kind of thing, I'm obliged to give it to them. But I don't know if I'm going to make it a habit to pursue every other kind of movie franchise that's out there. I really love doing as many different kinds of work as possible."

Last year it was also rumored that Equilibrium director Kurt Wimmer had signed on to helm the film. But after the critically bashed and money loss leader Ultraviolet hit screens earlier this year, plans may have changed.

Moviehole reported in late 2004, that James Cameron was interested in coming back to the series as either a writer or producer. We have seen no evidence to support this claim however.

Catwoman and Terminator 3 screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris completed a draft (or 80 page treatment depending on who you talk to) in 2004. David C. Wilson (Supernova) was brought on to do a total re-write based on their story.

[Mefustae]

On the bright side; given the quality of T3, future installments can only get better.

[Unknown Target]

I agree, T3 was great. Still, they were considering Orland Bloom for the Terminator.

Orlando Bloom.
Orlando Bloom the OMG OMG IT'S ORLANDO BLOOM girly girl fall head over heels for him Orlando Bloom.

He doesn't exactly inspire fear as a killing machine, to say the least

[Polpolion]

Spoiler:

What the Hell? I thought everyone died at the end of T3?

[Dark Hunter]

C'mon. The world doesn't have nearly enough nukes to strike every single square hundred miles of land, it's a given there'd be survivors. And

Spoiler:

(can we please permanently fix these spoiler tags?) John and Catherine were in a secret government bunker, unused for several decades. Unlikely that spot'd be a target.

[an0n]

To be fair to Bloom, you wouldn't have really expected Robert Patrick to be a decent Terminator either.

And SkyNET's probably smart enough to realise that having all Terminators look like walking steroid ads might make them somewhat conspicuous.

That being said - I'll ****ing murder anyone who even thinks about making Terminator 4, given how much they raped the whole entire ****ing premise of the first two films - namely that you couldn't change the future, despite what people from the future might tell you.

[Unknown Target]

The third one had that premise too...

[Triple Ace]

A TV series was announced as well. I read about it on IGN last week. It will center around Sarah Connor between T2 and T3.

[Mefustae]

I agree, T3 was great.

What? No! I meant that T3 was ****ing abyssmal!!

Honestly, not only did they completly destroy the premise of the first two movies as an0n pointed out, but they turned SKYNET into a ****ing joke! In T1, it was a military computer that achieved sentience saw humanity as a threat, and thus decided that for SKYNET to survive, humanity must not. T2 ellaborated on that and really gave SKYNET some actual character development, giving it a sympathetic light in that it was only trying to defend its new-found sentience when its designers tried to destroy it. And then along came T3, which made it into some supar-evil program that managed to operate and manipulate its designers even when it wasn't turned on, and then decided to effectively destroy most of itself [as it had no system-core and was entirely software, apparently] by destroying civilisation. T3 cut the balls off SKYNET with a rusty razor, and hence I loathe that ****ing movie.

Had they made it into something cool, T3 could have been awesome. Instead the writers decided to take the existing story and wipe it in their collective asses, before prettying it up with arbitrary special effects and sending it out the door to the drooling masses who wouldn't know 'quality' if it took a **** in the middle of their lounge-rooms.

[karajorma]

On the bright side; given the quality of T3, future installments can only get better.

Catwoman and Terminator 3 screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris completed a draft (or 80 page treatment depending on who you talk to) in 2004. David C. Wilson (Supernova) was brought on to do a total re-write based on their story.

You sure?

[Nuke]

its gonna suck. thats it.

[Mefustae]

On the bright side; given the quality of T3, future installments can only get better.

Catwoman and Terminator 3 screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris completed a draft (or 80 page treatment depending on who you talk to) in 2004. David C. Wilson (Supernova) was brought on to do a total re-write based on their story.

You sure?

I know! I meant that it was so terrible that it can only get better. Damn, i'm usually so apt at wording my slanted opinions...

[Colonol Dekker]

Claire Danes 


On a side note, its about tim ethey showed Tac-Coms victory in the Future war. I wanna see everything from John breaking out of the disposal plant to Skynet getting its virtual drives bum-kicked.

[karajorma]

I know! I meant that it was so terrible that it can only get better. Damn, i'm usually so apt at wording my slanted opinions...

I got the point you were making but we're talking about the people who made T3 and then went on to make Catwoman. Given the direction they are heading in their next movie will be worse than either.

[Mefustae]

I could have sworn Catwoman came out before T3...

[karajorma]

It came out a year later.

[Mefustae]

I stand corrected. Damn, T4's going to suck.

[Night Hammer]

wait wait wait, little scrawny girlish Orlando Bloom from Pirates of the Carribean as the terminator? how ****ing stupid is that?


the Rock I can kinda see though

[Windrunner]

i wanna see Rock as the terminator. he has the muscles and mean look to be one success full robot....i think

[MrBig101]

I agree, T3 was great. Still, they were considering Orland Bloom for the Terminator.

Orlando Bloom.
Orlando Bloom the OMG OMG IT'S ORLANDO BLOOM girly girl fall head over heels for him Orlando Bloom.

He doesn't exactly inspire fear as a killing machine, to say the least

Just give him a bow and arrows and call him the terminelf  .

i wanna see Rock as the terminator. he has the muscles and mean look to be one success full robot....i think

Yeah, I think The Rock  (eyebrow) could do it, and he has played the bad guy before, so I can see him laying the smackdown .