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Saturday June 06, 2009

Terminator 5 may be set in London

The current buzz from Bleeding Cool (via /Film and Den Of Geek) is that the follow-up to Terminator Salvation will be set in London, and in the present day (presumably the present day when the movie is released in about 2011). And John Connor will still be Christian Bale.

So, time travel again? Could be. /Film reports McG's speculation: "I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a 2011. John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanise the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare."

Sounds awesome to us, but what do you think - has the Terminator franchise run its course now, or are you desperate for something original in a couple of years? Will you be excited to see metal crushing skulls on the streets of Blighty?

Posted by Dave Bradley [News] ( Saturday June 06, 2009 )

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Does the person who posted this really think that idea is awesome? You are clearly off your head if you think that.

Atleast we still have the first two films I suppose.

Posted by Son Of Solo (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 08:42 PM BST #

I wish that they'd go full on with both the time travel aspect and technology - instead of having machines build their own factories that are very convenient for human purposes, make them look like they were designed by a machine...& go all out with the trippier sides of time travel, play up the multiple timelines seeing as that's what's been introduced. Oh and bring back the ground covered in skulls and only fighting at night. Eating rats, living in disgusting conditions etc. Wow it's hard to type on a phone.

Posted by Torquil (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 08:55 PM BST
Website: http://www.octobercustompublishing.com #

I really do wish that Cameron had ignored Arnie and never made T2. The Sarah Connor Chronicals aside, the sequels have been getting worse and worse and this just sounds like it's arse gravy of the thickest, most rich and odoursome kind.

Posted by Rob t, Rip (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 09:10 PM BST #

I think it sounds great, personally. Though I haven't seen Terminator Salvation yet so I don't yet know if I like Christian Bale's Connor.

Posted by Lanta (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 09:40 PM BST #

while I think it sounds cool - wouldn't it make more sense to send their army back to the Victorian era or even the middle ages to wipe out mankind? If it is just an invasion and not an era-specific task (i.e. Prevent John Connor being born) then they would be better off going to a technologically less advanced era in human development. Just seems like this franchise has lost the plot - literally.

Posted by mjh09 (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 09:50 PM BST #

If the latest Terminator is anything to go by, who cares?

Even primeval's finale decided that time travel to unravel the course of human history would be more effective if you strike at the moment humanity was born.

How about crossovers? Termiformers, would be a fun place to start!

Posted by Carlj (127.0.0.1) on June 06, 2009 at 11:14 PM BST #

McG, stop now, please.

Posted by 127.0.0.1 on June 07, 2009 at 01:41 AM BST #

Does this not mess with the future as a result? Question to be posed. Some consistency please

Posted by maskedman (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 08:44 AM BST #

yawn ...this is BS of the highest order..McG has been going around saying this for weeks now ...he only mentions London because he's talking to British source , i'm pretty sure he's going state by state like some rock concert tour "Hello Cleveland"( Think about it why London? it makes no sense as the time machine was in Los Angeles and previous to this could only transport you in time not location), that's where Skynet was originally built...he's also been telling people that it'll be set in 2032 after Connors death....don't listen to him ...the film is a flop in the states and if there is a franchise he won't be allowed to do the next one.)

Posted by 127.0.0.1 on June 07, 2009 at 09:31 AM BST #

At last, the solution to clearing the scrum outside Oxford Circus Underground station.
No, seriously, a bad idea.

Posted by Pummeluffpapa (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 12:01 PM BST #

Bored now!!They arnt just scraping the bottom of the barrel they are going thru it!!

Posted by neil (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 12:09 PM BST #

victorian england? steampunk meets tech-noir.... cool..

and lay off Salvation, it WAS actually quite good:
Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from jay and Silent Bob Strike back? IGNORE THE INTERNET BUZZ!
And SFX's reviews! Unrepresentative Doesn't even come close.

Posted by theungratefulninja (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 12:09 PM BST #

McG is full of crap. There won't be any Terminator 5.

Salvation has been a major flop in the US. Unless it makes hundreds of millions overseas then this franchise is dead...at least until someone does a remake of the original. Yikes!

Posted by Nick (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 03:25 PM BST #

The movie has taken $125 million so far on a budget of $200 million. It'll probably just about break even when its run is completed and the DVDs are taken into account, but unless the proposed sequel has half the budget, it'll almost certainly not get made. Then they'll probably start talking about a remake of T1.

Posted by Adam Whitehead (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 04:08 PM BST
Website: http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/ #

well this wouldn't make much sense really... If the next film is the 2nd part of a trilogy then John Connor cant win the war against the machines in it. But if he is sent back in time, then he wont be in the future to end the war??? You can only go one way... or will he live through it all again?

Posted by alex morris (127.0.0.1) on June 07, 2009 at 11:40 PM BST #

Well as i loved Salvation, T5 should be just as great if not better. I'll be looking forward to it, nuff said.

Posted by LM (127.0.0.1) on June 08, 2009 at 01:29 PM BST #

Lets just hope they remember to say London, ENGLAND - just so all the American viewers know just which London the film is set in.

And I am sure that Adam Whitehead's comment above about a T1 remake is probably closer to the truth.

Posted by Werdna007 (127.0.0.1) on June 08, 2009 at 01:44 PM BST #

Actually, the early statements about the movie being a flop have been premature. A lot of foreign markets didn't start showing the movie until this week, and apparently it's now raked in $202 million. Given that the movie will stay on release for a few more weeks, it should comfortably make a reasonable, but not oustanding, profit. Whether it's enough to get people talking about a fifth movie is another matter.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/06/a-.html

Posted by Adam Whitehead (127.0.0.1) on June 08, 2009 at 03:07 PM BST
Website: http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/ #

To quote mysterious source - 'More than one naked entity'?

I've got an entirely different sort of film in my head now, especially if they do the sensible thing and get Summer Glau or Lena Headey on board.

Okay, I haven't seen Terminator 4 yet (Salvation? Salvation of what? McG's career?) but can't help but think that they surely must've broken all of time travel by now with all this to-ing and fro-ing.

Next time around, I think bringing in Aliens, Predators, Steven Seagal, all of the Transformers, Robocop, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Fantastic Four, Freddy, Jason, The Daleks, Xena, Wonder Woman and as many zombies as they could afford for one almighty and completely pointless massive punch-off would surely reinvigorate the franchise no end.

I don't think any of that could be called overkill. Except the name of the film probably wouldn't fit on most posters.

Oh, and Christian Bale could fly into an uncontrollable rage at all the noise and chaos going on all around him and threaten to have someone sacked. That would be funny.

Terminator: Agitation!

As for the London angle, this must only be allowed to happen if we get to see Terminators chucking big red buses around as well as wrecking the Gherkin (sorry, that sounds like a euphemism) and smashing various London landmarks as is de rigeur with any appearance of the United Kingdom on film in American movies.

As is flashing up ‘London, England, UK’ on screen every five minutes just in case anyone gets confused. And there must also be gentlemen in pinstripe suits with bowler hats wandering by announcing, 'I say, tally ho, my old mucker. What in crivens is all this terminating malarkey about, by jove, don’t you know?’

I’d pay at least ten pounds to see that movie. And I’m not even English!

Posted by spiderboris (127.0.0.1) on June 09, 2009 at 07:04 AM BST
Website: http://televisionoff.blogspot.com/ #

Totally abnormal idea...:( !!! Why don't they send back the terminators in the begining when ( Adam and Eve were born ) and killing them or a lot of terminators to Sarah's house and kill her and the whole city and the movie is end....:( I can't believe it where this abnormal idiotic story is came from that: J.Connor is traveling back in time, and preset day again ::::( and terminators and machines can travel too :(...Noooooooooooooo time travel.....and nooooo present days.....no travel of machines....Weee want to see the future battles with normal ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by terminatorfanfanfan (127.0.0.1) on June 25, 2009 at 11:46 AM BST #

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