McG Talks "Terminator 5"

McG Talks "Terminator 5"

McG is already working on the sequel to "Terminator Salvation". He dropped some hints to IESB about the possible plot details, and even name dropped Michael Bay! Great start!

By MarkCassidy - Aug 09, 2009 12:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Terminator
Source: iesb.net

Talking to IESB, the director said,

" Obviously, Michael Bay had tremendous success following Transformers, in a very short window. Sometimes people like to take time off, but I'm excited about the next installation of the story in the Terminator idea. So, for me, it's terribly exciting to get back out there and show a different face of that idea, and perhaps get out of the apocalyptic world and into a contemporary world. I think the audience is going to be very excited about our way in."

That sounds like the next movie will abandon the constant post apocalyptic setting of Salvation and perhaps move into the more familiar time travel territory of the first two movies.

Meanwhile, McG's also busily listening to critics of the last movie and still blaming some of the backlash on his name!

"I listen to everything. It's interesting because a lot of people don't like me, but a lot of people just don't like my name. I can't take that too seriously because that's been my name my whole life. It's not something that I prescribed myself. You take your lumps, if they don't like it, and you enjoy it a lot more when they do. We've all been on every side of that, and what can you do, but figure out what you did right and what you did wrong, look at it a little more closely, study the people that you look up to, and continue to evolve as a storyteller."

"Terminator Salvation" was pretty good I thought. Could have been better but hopefully that's where McG is heading with the next one. Just as long as we don't have any Terminators humping anything we should be fine!

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/9/2009, 12:39 PM
Hell yeah, im in main!

Damn im always under you aint i ROR lol! ; D

Sweet T5 would be killer with McG!!!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/9/2009, 12:55 PM
OZY HUSH lol! Heh heh, come on dude be a JOE! ; )

Yeah i loved TERMINATOR SALVATION, oh an a certain WORTHINGTON was in it!

I still want, like many a ROBOCOP VS TERMINATOR!!!

Now that would be the Ultimate, but since HOLLYWOOD gone back to BS reeboot/remake stage we'll never see them now!

Also wanted friggin' FREDDY VS JASON 2 coff coff with coff ASH! ; )

Still prob will never happen now because ppl are supporting these remakes!
SdProphet
SdProphet - 8/9/2009, 1:23 PM
@chucksome they had to be covert op and stealthy because if they ripple the future they might disrupt something like skynet never being followed through... Hahahah



Super dweeby moment right there hey ror I love the whole terminator series it's legit
Hanzogamer
Hanzogamer - 8/9/2009, 2:02 PM
The reason the T-1000's did nothing for Skynet in the war is because right when Skynet started making them, The Humans won the war.

Skynet sending just the 1 T-1000 back in time was their last hope. It failed, ultimately leading to humanity's victory.

Kind of like how Skynet was just starting the T-800's in T4. They had a factory, but John only faught one, because the others were still being built.
SoulAllFlush
SoulAllFlush - 8/9/2009, 2:04 PM
seriously though, what sort of goddamn douchebag calls themself McG

He is a rubbish director and the Terminator Franchise deserves better.
peterparker420
peterparker420 - 8/9/2009, 2:10 PM
G.I JOE was great
TERMINATER SAL. was great
and this article is great..greatness all around
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/9/2009, 2:18 PM
I GREATLY concur!!! ; )
felix
felix - 8/9/2009, 2:33 PM
Mc G is a talentless director who should not be allowed to make films...terminator salvation was mediocre at best...if your over the age of 16 and like this film, consider yourself to be mediocre aswell.
superdog
superdog - 8/9/2009, 3:39 PM
If they do another time travel story I'm out. Why can't they just stay in The future and finish the war. Why do they need to go back. It's stupid. Like gijoe.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/9/2009, 3:45 PM
Superdog @ What do you think of the movie with ERIC BANA, Time Travelers wife???? ; D

Seriously though, id prefer a bigger and more EPIC machines vs humans, with a Epic battle in the future, an not bother with Time Travel till T6 or something!
spideysweb
spideysweb - 8/9/2009, 4:28 PM
I didn't like Salvation all that much. I thought Bale sucked as JC. Best part of that movie was Worthington. I do hope this franchise does not get ruined as 1 and 2 are by far the best in the franchise so far.
superdog
superdog - 8/9/2009, 4:38 PM
Lee77@ that movie looks interesting. Maybe too Luvy duvy though. But I'm with U 100% on terminator. Just have the future war. Quite screwing around with time travel.
Phoenix9109
Phoenix9109 - 8/9/2009, 4:43 PM
I loved T4, it was possibly tied with T2 for my favorite in the franchise. But, as it's been said before, Worthington was the best part of that movie, and they killed off his character, so...I can't see too much I have to look forward to in the fifth one. I did love McG as director though, so I'll be glad if he comes back to do the 5th installment.
I think Bale did pretty ok with Connor. He could've done better, but it was fine the way it was.
But once again, too much romance in my action movie. Blech. (and if this is coming from a girl you know it's true. ^_^)
YaBoyRD
YaBoyRD - 8/9/2009, 4:44 PM
I liked Terminator Salvation. I had a lot of fun watching that movie. But I tend to dig post-apocalyptic wastelands and robots and weird time travel scenarios.

The ending was a little weak. They could have left out the John Connor voiceover... the Marcus Wright voiceover was enough. Still, I'm looking forward to more McG-directed Terminator movies. I thought the feel was just right.

I could be wrong but I think the 'Arnold' Terminator in T:2 said that the T-1000 was a prototype model.

I'm not sure Marcus Wright is dead. The one at the end was a replacement model... toward the end, after Marcus woke in the Skynet facility (completely 'healed' and wearing scrubs), there was a shot of him looking at his original body on a table, with the body still wearing his clothes. So there might be another Marcus Wright out there.
Phoenix9109
Phoenix9109 - 8/9/2009, 4:51 PM
Hmmm, I don't remember the multiple Marcus part, but it's been awhile since I saw it.
superdog
superdog - 8/9/2009, 4:52 PM
True. But i think they'll abondon that story line. It sounds likenthierndoing time travel again which will suck
YaBoyRD
YaBoyRD - 8/9/2009, 4:58 PM
A time travel story will only work if helps facilitate the original set of cicumstances from the first movie.

I'm hoping to see more Reese. Based on the pregnant Kate, I figure there's a fatherhood sub-angle somewhere around the corner. I'm also hoping McG explains how the T-1000 or T-X made it through the time field without being encased in organic material... both models only mimic the outer appearance of skin. I don't buy that something inherently metal can be 'organic' even if it is programmable liquid.
KEROSENE
KEROSENE - 8/9/2009, 5:20 PM
i'd think that another time travel movie could work. let's see it from the terminators perspective instead. that could kick ass. i think it would make an interesting "episode" to this epic story.
superdog
superdog - 8/9/2009, 5:52 PM
Time travel will suck. It's too confusing already and if you add another layer it wil just be too much.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 8/9/2009, 6:19 PM
In fairness, time travel was the back bone of the original(and best) movie and its sequel. I don't want to see constant back and forth so its confusing, but someone should travel at some stage, be it back or forward. Anyway, we pretty much know already that Connor will be heading back. Salvation was good but without some time travel in the next movie its just going to be more of the same. Apocalyptic explosions/man vs machines. Its been done. Next one needs a fresh idea..or at least a rehash of the classic ones!
MetalHead
MetalHead - 8/9/2009, 7:10 PM
chuchsome,
The T-1000 was "an ADVANCED PROTOTYPE." There were not any others produced yet at that point, although some comic book storylines suggest that there was one other. (See the scene in T2 where Arnold & Eddie Furlong were on the Harley and T-800 is explaining what the T-1000 is to John.)

And Ror, you gotta be careful what you wish for in saying that the "next one needs a fresh idea." You should hear some of the HORRIBLE ideas that McG has had thus far. For starters, he wants to have Skynet send HKs-- machines that are NOT covered in living tissue and therefore wouldn't be able to travel back in time according to the theory in the series-- back to a "pre-Judgment Day 2010"-- that's right-- "PRE-Judgment Day," even though Judgment Day has already happened in BOTH timelines by then (original timeline: August 29th, 1997, secondary timeline: 2004). So basically he is F***ing up the ENTIRE set of truths that we knew from the first two movies. And those are only 2 examples of many.

No joke here-- I should be hired to sit with him and point out his flaws in his ideas as he comes up with them.
MetalHead
MetalHead - 8/9/2009, 7:15 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot one of the most important HORRIBLE ideas of McG's-- he wants to also send John Connor back to 2010 to attempt tp "galvanize the world's armies" to prepare for war against Skynet. Uh... NEWS FLASH: Judgment Day had already come and gone by 2010!!! Why wouldn't McG AT LEAST plan to send John to 1996 or 2003?!? I don't even think McG has seen the first 2 movies.
superdog
superdog - 8/9/2009, 7:44 PM
I don't think he's seen anything other than his crack pipe in years
Phoenix9109
Phoenix9109 - 8/9/2009, 8:18 PM
I definitely hope to see more of Kyle Reese, and I do hope they stay IN the "apocolyptic world" and OUT of the "contemporary world".
The first two were good and I definitely liked them, but they weren't anything I'd "fanboy" over. The third one was less than mediocre. So, to be honest, I won't be too upset if they do "[frick] up the entire set of truths" form the first movies.
It's a time-travel genre movie series. Time-travel tends to change the past, as well as the future, so why does this past have to stay the same?
MetalHead
MetalHead - 8/9/2009, 8:26 PM
Phoenix,
I'm not even getting into this with you cause clearly you know very little about the series.
dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 8/9/2009, 8:40 PM
I really liked Terminator Salvation, it wasnt a patch on the original two movies but it was a million times better and more serious than T3 which I bascally treated like a comedy and I was satisfied with the movie as a comedy but not as a serious movie. But the cast were very good especially Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin and in between all his grumbling, Christian Bale was great as John Connor (again better than Nick "Im so emo, I dont wanna be the future leader of mankind, bla bla" Stahl). And Moon Bloodgood, mmmmmm lol

But I enjoyed that movie and I see that as the end of the Terminator franchise because all future sequels are going to suck because they WONT BE SET IN THE FUTURE! Im [frick]ing sick of all this time travel crap! The Terminator timeline is already messed up as it is. Dont be sending back more bloody Terminators to pre-Judgement Day. That is what the brilliant original trilogy was for! Well if idiot McG does not change his mind and set the movie completely in the future, I will not be going to see it!

My idea is (now I know it isnt the best) that in between TS (2018) and T5 (maybe 2028), the resistance all over the world have been tracking down T-800 factories and stopping production of the T-800s. Skynet have been fighting back as much as it can but they are failing to stop the resistance from destroying their ultimate weapons. The movie begins with the Resistance destroying the last t-800 factory that they know off. But, however, Skynet has learnt how to evade humanity and has built a group of t-800s in secret and they start infiltrating different camps belonging to humanity. When the resistance learn of the t-800's activation, they strive to find a way to reprogram the t-800s to obey them, meaning humanity will be safe from them and they can use the t-800s to fight back against Skynet. They go into battle against the t-800s and attempt to capture one so they can learn how to reprogram it. To make a long story short, they succeed and destroy the secret t-800 factory meaning they only have to fight the remaining t-800s.

T6 (set in 2029) should actually start off with the final battle that was described in T1. After his camp got attacked by a Terminator (as seen in T1), Kyle Resse hooks up with John's main group of soldiers after his commanding officer, Perry (mentioned in T1) was killed. John knows its time to send Kyle back to 1984 and the re-programmed Arnie to 1995 after John and the rest of the resistance have finally defeated Skynet's control over the world. They attack the defence grid with re-programmed t-800's help and defeat Skynet. Cue emotional goodbye between John and Kyle and along with the re-programmed Arnie, they jump back to 1984 and 1995. However the movie is not over, part of Skynet survives, jumps to a different location and begins to put its emergency plan into action of sending a small group of t-1000s or t-x's ((developed from the prototype Robert Patrick sent to 1995 and they were originally designed to fight re-programmed t-800s as Arnie said in T3 but of course it was too late as Skynet was defeated)) back to the day after Judgement Day so humanity will not be ready to fight such advanced machines meaning Skynet will win in 2004 and not accidently avert its own creation by going back any earlier. John and his most trusted soldiers finally destroy the central AI of Skynet. However, John and his team have to jump to 2004, chasing the t-1000s that already went through. Cue the very final battle, the T-1000s are defeated and John Connor dies. One soldier survives from John Connor's team and goes into hiding straightaway to prevent altering the future and in 2029, he comes to Kate Connor and tells her their mission in 2004 was a success and John died bravely fighting the machines. Kate and John's kids go on to lead humanity into a new better future where there will never be another Terminator movie made ever again!
bobofet
bobofet - 8/9/2009, 9:31 PM
i loved T4!! not alot of people like it tho...F*CK them!
TheMyth
TheMyth - 8/9/2009, 9:51 PM
T4 was the shit movie of the summer. I have been holding that in til I saw GI Joe, now that I have, Terminator was by far the worst movie of the summer. People complain about some physics issues like sinking ice in GI Joe, Wolverine deflecting optic blasts, and other flaws of the summer movies, but Terminator Salvation was just one long chain of unreasonable acts after another.It was one of those movies I spent half of it rolling my eyes and burrying my head in my hands at the awkward nature of its many [frick]ups. I seriously hope this franchise is left alone forever, or until James Cameron wants to return to it.

And for the record, Sam Worthington was forgettable at best in this movie and the man-crush some people on this site demonstrate for him is disturbing.
Scorpioxfactor
Scorpioxfactor - 8/10/2009, 3:06 AM
@ HANZO..where did you get all this information from?
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/10/2009, 6:23 AM
T4 WAS AWESOME!!!!

DRAGONBALLS was the sh!tty movie of the SUMMER!
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/10/2009, 6:40 AM
no more time travel. thats all they did in the first 3...time travel. they should make it an epic war story type movie. the time traveling is what made the terminator movies ridiculous, even since the original. machines send terminator back in time to kill saraha connor, so she doesn't give birth to john. humans send reese back to kill said terminator. while back in time, reese sleeps with sarah, gets her preggers, therefore bringing john into the world. so basically, if the machines REALLY didn't want john to be born, they should have just never sent back a terminator to begin with. the machines caused him to be born in the first place, AND THEY KNEW REESE WAS HIS FATHER!!! this whole franchise has been silly since the beginning...and people complain about plot holes, lol, this entire series was based on one giant plot hole, lol.
vonstallin
vonstallin - 8/10/2009, 6:43 AM
I see I cant read this sight with the spoilers spread in titles that have nothing to do with it.

T4 was good, I do think his name messed up more than the movie itself.

Its times like these when I hate the internet BBS boards. I remember back in the days when all you could do is read about movies coming out and not bash the hell out of them b4 you even see a trailer.

ok im steping off my soap box now.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 8/10/2009, 7:54 AM
Sorry TheMyth, T4 may have had glaring plot holes and a few dodgy script patches but i wouldn't even put it in the same dungeon as GI Joke! McG at least attempted to make a solid action movie and dragged decent to good to great(Anton Yelchin) performances from his cast. The special effects were absolutely top notch and the action scenes were exiting and well choreographed. Joe was the complete opposite of everything i just said.
superdog
superdog - 8/10/2009, 8:29 AM
corndog@ right on man.

ror@ right on man. it may have had some plots holes but it made up for it with the rest of the stuff you mention. gijoe was lacking in every department
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/10/2009, 8:51 AM
@ ror

i gotta agree, i actually liked T4... but the special effects blew Joe away, hell, everything in T4 blew Joe away. Gi Joe really should have been on the syfy channel
superdog
superdog - 8/10/2009, 9:04 AM
that would be giving it too much credit. it was even worse than ice spiders. a syfy classic
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/10/2009, 10:25 AM
@ superdog

LOL!! i don't know man, its hard to beat Mansquito!!!
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