McG Offers Direction For Terminator Salvation Sequel

He'll be back!!! ; ) Cool, that sounds sweet, sounds like a great idea an the Robert Patricks a nice touch!!! Atleast this wont be a WOLVERINE lol! (Well i hope not).

Anyone ever wonder what Sky Net would do if it won & killed off Humans???

Every time a Terminator finishes it's mission it just shuts down... What would Sky Net do if it won?? Would it just shut down everything??? Would it try to improve itself? Explore space? I mean... What's it's eventual goal??? Killing Humans can't be it.. Anyone else ever wonder about that?

Again... I love the Terminator Movies & they will always be my favorites... Just wondering out loud I guess... or on keyboards.. Lol...

I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS MOVIE WILL BE REALLY COOL. WE FINALLY SEE THE FUTURE, I WOULDNT HAVE PICKED ANYONE ELSE TO PLAY JOHN CONNOR, BALE FITS IT.ALL THE VARIATIONS OF TERMINATORS, AWSOME AWSOME-CYCLE TERMINATORS, FLYING ONES, THEY EVEN HAVE BULKIER TERMINATORS, THIS MOVIE WILL BE SO COOL.

how about they do a crossover type movie! Instead of Alien Vs Predator, we have Predator Vs Terminator! Skynet just took down the last surviving human, then Predator comes to Earth to hunt its favorite prey only to find none left just these machines. These machines prove much more dangerous prey than humans. Skynet has a new goal, killing Predators. Predators have a new goal, hunting Terminators! Bam theres your movie, makes any AvP movie look like crap.

This is hxc jumping the gun lol. we haven't even seen the new one already talking sequel hah can't complain they did the same with iron man and look where we are at now so I just wanna see skin vs metal. HOLLA

Midknight that Predator vs Terminator is a good idea. I would watch that.

Terminator looks intense. It looks very promising. It's a shame they pansied out and went PG-13. I want me some blood.

Macksimus,
I'm all about "Terminator: Salvation," but I'm completely with you here-- THIS idea sounds HORRIBLE! And for the exact reason that you just said! Too much time travel F's up everything. Then you get into the issues like the fact that... I'm not going into this again. The more you travel back in time, the more you F up the present and future. NO MORE TIME TRAVEL EXCEPT FOR SENDING PEOPLE/STUFF BACK THAT WE ALREADY KNOW OF!!! They don't need to continue with that aspect of the story. PLEASE, you are so close to making this F'ing awesome, don't F it all up now.

so annoying that this film doesnt come out in the UK until June 3rd!!!

Lol. I know it's stupid, but what if they made some sort of crazy crossover movie in this reboot franchise? Like...have a Predator come into the scene. Lmao i'm just joking though. That would be freaktarded and cliche

You know, if you think about it, Christian Bale is an amazing actor. Not so much for his over-the-top acting skills. No. But that he is playing all of cinema's coolest heroes! He's John Connor, Bruce Wayne/Batman...what's next? Steve Austen, astronaut, a man barely alive...Gentlemen? We can rebuild him, we have the technology. We can make faster. Stronger...BETTER! Cue cool intro. theme.

Macksimus: You obviously haven't seen any of the previous Terminator movies, or have forgotten that time travell was the key element IN ALL OF THEM!

grif: (Read statement above)

Pumchavas28: You have interesting ideas. Keep posting them.

keven: "because that's stupid Pumchavas. haven't you learned that you can't just keep doing something stupid like that in a movie? this isn't the coyote chasing the roadrunner here."

You're trolling. Quit being a jerk. The guy had an idea, and wanted to share it. Plain and simple.


Come on guys, time travel is a plot device. It's not "played" out anymore than the concept of the "Heroes Journey" is played out. The writing and the acting are the most important aspects of any story. Make those top-notch, and you have an excellent movie!
And wouldn't it be entertaining to see how/why the T units were sent back in time for the events that took place in the previous films? I think that's a brilliant concept in and of itself, and if calculated correctly, will make one HELL of a good movie!

Here's the thing with the time travel: we all know what supposedly happened in 1984 and 1996 (and unfortunately in that God-awful 3rd film in 2003). That being said, the disaster to the Terminator timeline which "T3" created is EXACTLY why they need to STOP adding more NEW time travel storylines that involve John Connor or Kyle Reese. The more things that they do in the future involving sending things to the past, the more it F's up the timeline, which, in turn will eventually wipe out the existence of the events in the first 2 films. (Wipe out "T3" all you want, though!)

Basically, showing Kyle, 2 T-800s, and a T-1000 being sent back in time is perfectly fine because that stays true to the continuity of the first 2 films. But sending John Connor back in time and therefore keeping him from existing in this current storyline will no longer allow him to be around to send Kyle Reese back in 2029, making John's existence no longer possible. That is just one minor example of just one alternate timeline. IF they want to send back other characters then that's fine-- just as long as whatever those characters do doesn't end up altering the events to this particular timeline. For example, when Kyle was sent back he didn't alter the timeline from which he came, he helped to create it and to keep it possible. Although the events of "T2" COULD HAVE potentially stopped or postponed Judgment Day, there was nothing to suggest that to be true since IF they had been successful then right at that moment the entire timeline should have changed since John, both T-800s and the T-1000 never would have existed and therefore the events leading up to the moment after "T2" would never have had to happen. That being said, the writers of "T3" NEVER should have changed the date of Judgment Day since it was that specific event that allowed all of those individuals from the first 2 films to be in those specfic places at those specific times.

So here's why it's annoying... yes, it can be said that there are several timeline possibilities. BUT, in the first 2 films we were seeing the events of THAT SPECIFIC TIMELINE. So let's see the ENTIRE STORY of THAT TIMELINE! That's the story that we started with so let's finish it! Yes, there is another timeline where John never exists, but THAT ISN'T THE TIMELINE THAT WE ARE WATCHING! The timeline that we WERE watching (until that piece of trash "T3" ruined the whole timeline) has Kyle Reese & a T-800 being sent back to 1984, a T-800 & a T-1000 being sent back 1996, Judgment Day taking place in 1997 and the Resistance winning the war in 2029. Now what we're seeing is a few pieces to several different timelines/stories. Let's just F'ing see the rest of the story that we've BEEN WATCHING SINCE 1984!

Adamant...

Thanks...I did see all of the Terminator movies, and I do know that time travel is a key element in all of them, but that doesn't mean that time travel should be a key element in all of the new movies. Hell, even McG has said that there will not be any time travel in Salvation, and if they do have time travel in the 5th and 6th, it should only be when John sends back Kyle and the T-800 to intercept Skynet's Terminators.

All I'm saying is that McG SHOULDNT RELY ON TIME TRAVEL AS A CRUTCH...because if he wanted to, he could use time travel to explain every little plot hole that he might end up creating in these movies, and that would make the movie stupid.