Director Justin Lin Has Talked With Arnold Schwarzenegger About Returning To The Terminator Franchise

Director Justin Lin Has Talked With Arnold Schwarzenegger About Returning To The Terminator Franchise

Justin Lin, director of the upcoming Fast Five, was recently attached to a fifth Terminator movie. Now the director revealed he has talked to star Arnold Schwarzenegger about returning...

By bleedthefreak - Apr 13, 2011 12:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Terminator
Source: OMELETE (VIA FILMONIC)



In 1984, director James Cameron struck gold with his Action packed adventure The Terminator. The film followed Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and a mysterious protector from the future Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), as they ran from the clutches of a murderous robot (Arnold Schwarzenegger) whose kind takes over the world if Ssrah Connor is killed. The killing Machine known as the Terminator is trying to kill Sarah Connor to prevent the birth of her unborn son John, who is destined to help save the world from the robotic takeover, Judgment Day.

The success of the first would lead to several sequels (the fourth of which only featured Schwarzenegger in a brief cameo), spawning a highly successful franchise, even after the director of the much more successful first two, James Cameron left.

With another new director, Justin Lin (Fast Five) set to helm a fifth movie, He revealed while speaking to OMELETE that he has asked if Arnold Schwarzenegger would be interested in returning:

"I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options. Terminator was one of my favorite films growing up. And I feel I have a take that I would love to see, and I’ve talked with Arnold and we’ve talked and we’ll see. Again, I would love to do it, but it has to be the right circumstances. It has to be the right people. And there’s other projects too. But I’m in a position now that I can choose more than I could a year ago, two years ago. So that is something that is potentially in my future, but when I get home I will sit down and look at my options and choose what I want to do."


No official word has hit as to when we can expect this fith Terminator
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bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 4/13/2011, 12:53 PM
;)
TorturedXGenius
TorturedXGenius - 4/13/2011, 1:11 PM
that TECHNICALLY wasn't Arnold himself but whatever yea it's a 'cameo' lol
alphamale80
alphamale80 - 4/13/2011, 1:24 PM
please no he is way to old to return to the terminator and besides that the last one was kinda corny they need to scratch that notion lol
Herosave
Herosave - 4/13/2011, 1:27 PM
I guess another Terminator movie could focus on the Arnold robot being sent back to the past, whether it's the model from the first movie, or even the model from the second movie.
Lert
Lert - 4/13/2011, 1:30 PM
The fourth movie had somethig for a while but fell flat.. and the 16 year old conner in the 2nd movie nearlly killed the franchise when they casted his butt!
Rustyham
Rustyham - 4/13/2011, 1:31 PM
Who would not love the next sequel to follow the ending of Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles? Shirley Manson was such a great T1000.
JosePetrelli12
JosePetrelli12 - 4/13/2011, 1:31 PM
meh...
Northstar
Northstar - 4/13/2011, 1:33 PM
Arnold in Terminator Salvation GCI Pictures, Images and Photos
imnotwearinghockeypants
imnotwearinghockeypants - 4/13/2011, 1:34 PM
The Terminator series ended with T2. Anything that came after or comes after is Hollywood humping money out of a rotting corpse.
Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 4/13/2011, 1:41 PM
Cool, I'm hoping they make another film. Salvation was great, I look forward to another film.
PapaEmeritus
PapaEmeritus - 4/13/2011, 1:48 PM
T800 for him now, only in CG way! The age come to everyone. Arnie became a molten meatloaf.
PapaEmeritus
PapaEmeritus - 4/13/2011, 1:49 PM
But I do think King Conan would be great role for him!
WellDrawn
WellDrawn - 4/13/2011, 1:53 PM
@imnotwearinghockeypants - Damn straight. The only thing Hollywood could do to get me interested again, is to bring back James Cameron to complete HIS trilogy.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 4/13/2011, 1:55 PM
I KNOW THEYRE TRYING TO MAKE CG LOOK REAL BUT IT KINDA LOOKED LIKE A XBOX CINEMATIC
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 4/13/2011, 1:58 PM
imnotwearinghockeypants@ Couldnt agree more!

Arnie forget Terminator and The Governator crap!
The Expendables 2 all the way! People wanna see you face Stallone!:)
EastcoastAvenger
EastcoastAvenger - 4/13/2011, 3:01 PM
Arnie is getting up there. However he could play the fellow skynet designed the T101 to look like.
theartofoneness
theartofoneness - 4/13/2011, 3:03 PM
i think the future of movies will have 3d actors and even 3d generated ones. i think this is only the beginning. though its been happening for some time. i can definitely see old actors that are dead coming back to life.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 4/13/2011, 3:22 PM
CGI can do anything... it ain't TERMINATOR without ARNOLD!

Hell yeah! ; )
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 4/13/2011, 3:31 PM
Justin Lin? Ewww.
Spectre94
Spectre94 - 4/13/2011, 3:32 PM
I liked Salvation and was hoping for something else along that line. Let's see wat happens
JosephKerr
JosephKerr - 4/13/2011, 3:48 PM
@EastcoastAvenger Damn it you took what I was gonna say haha. I think that would be a great idea. Not sure how he would fit into the storyline if it was a large role, but it could work as a cameo. Or maybe just a reference.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/13/2011, 4:51 PM
There isn't a Terminator Franchise, it never was a franchise, it ended at T2 and James Cameron moved on. So Hollywood needs to stop trying to make up more crap with robots in it and trying to make it legit by shoe-horning Arnie into the movie.
Vital
Vital - 4/13/2011, 5:50 PM
I'm down for whatever, as long as it follows the storyline, I could care less what actors are in it.
Optimist18
Optimist18 - 4/13/2011, 6:03 PM
Once again,

[frick] You, Ceejay.

That is all.
UncleDrew
UncleDrew - 4/13/2011, 6:15 PM
PLEASE NO MORE!!!!
dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 4/13/2011, 6:53 PM
I would rather a Terminator sequel over another BULLSHIT Expendables absolute shit! It was a movie for retards
Shunt
Shunt - 4/13/2011, 10:04 PM
yo. Arnold is the greatest action superstar of all time.. And T2 is by far the coolest action/scifi movie EVER!! nuff said..

-I say they NEED to bring back Arnold and someone who is just as important actor Michael Biehn/Kyle Reese for the fifth installment.. this way it can do some justice in trying to tie the whole series together.. Pt 4 was disappointing but they could redeem the series if they get arnold & Michael B.


-As for him being to old and out of shape, I say that is not a problem at all..

You guys saw what they did for IAN McKELLEN & PATRICK STEWART in X-Men Last Stand: when they did the flashback scene.. They made those two old ass guys look 20 years younger with that "Flesh CGI Program".. they could do the same for Arnold & Michael Biehn.. Make up & CGI fixes everything in todays day and age of technology...
Blackmatter
Blackmatter - 4/14/2011, 12:17 AM
Yeah the first 2 were the best, the 3rd was kinda shitty, the 4th was good, but yeah we need Cameron back BAD. Not sure about the Arnold coming back thing esp. as a Terminator. He is old after all but we'll see.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/14/2011, 3:16 AM
And same to you with bells on, Optimist18

This contrived franchise has been going downhill simply because it was never meant to go past T2 as a narrative. James Cameron shot an ending for T2 where Judgement day arrives and nothing happens, they won, John COnnor was a US senator and Sarah Connor was a grandmother to his children writing her diaries. That's it, the end. But the studio convinced thim to release a theatrical cut where the ending is left with that crap about the future remains unkown blah blah so they could continue making movies called "Terminator" for any idiot ready to part with his money to see what action secnes and robot designs their FX companies can come up with to showcase.

This is why only fanboys crave to see more of this shite, it ended with JC and the general Public at T2:Judgement Day and ever since then the movies have made less money at the box office and been sold on to three different studios as a bankable franchise! Narratively they suck becasue the guy who invented it blew his wad into the 2nd and final film with the ultimate Robot adversary and since then we've had regressed versions of this tech instead of more advanced versions which naturally makes no sense and only excites fanboys who want to add movies to their collection with numbers after their titles like children buying their first comics!

Well here's the numbers that count..

Terminator (Orion pictures 1984) Worldwide B.O = $78 million. Budget $6.4 Million (Profit = $71.6 million)
T2: Judgement Day (TriStar 1991) Worldwide B.O = $519 million. Budget $100 million (Profit = $419 million)

Then come the forced "franchise shite not done by the creator" to get money out of simple fanboys..

Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines (Warner Bros 2003) Worldwide B.O = $433 millon. Budget $200 million (Profit $233 million)
Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros 2009) Worldwide B.O = $371 million. Budget $200 million (Profit $171 million)

And now they want to shoe-horn an aged, fat Arnold Schwarznegger into another pointless sequel hoping there are fanboys dumb enough to think he's going to make a difference to the movie and increase those ridiculously poor profits made from those ridiculously poor franchised sequels. Without James Cameron, the real creative source behind the camera, I have only one thing to say to the fools!

..good Luck!
chochi73
chochi73 - 4/14/2011, 10:00 AM
Ok, lets bring back Arnold w/out cgi. His mission kill Sarah Connor's Grandfather who's a Made-man from Jersey in the late 70's. He'll fit right in. Just have to make that time jump reentry scene as short as possible.

Cast:
Jack Nicholson
Robert De Niro
Vincent Curatola
Joe Pesci
Frank Vincent
Paul Sorvino
Chazz Palminteri
Tony Sirico
Optimist18
Optimist18 - 4/14/2011, 5:11 PM
@Ceejay,

Thank whatever divine power there is in the universe that your opinion is not law.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, this is where the initial "[frick] You" came from: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/VoicesFromKrypton/news/?a=34745

In case the "once again" confused your ass.

Good Day.
fullmetal
fullmetal - 4/14/2011, 5:12 PM
as far a Terminator goes... i am not interested unless Cameron is directing...otherwise terminator ended with T2....
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