Possible Terminator 5 & 6 Film Ideas

Possible Terminator 5 & 6 Film Ideas

The writer for the first two Terminator films wants back in the franchise and here are some of his ideas.

By ecksmanfan - Feb 19, 2010 12:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Terminator
Source: DeadlineHollywood.com

Recently, the web was buzzing about possible leaked storylines for the 5th and 6th Terminator films. Not sure about you guys, but I wasn't buzzing, I must have missed this memo. Deadline Hollywood talked with writer William Wisher, who wrote the first two Terminator films. He was asked to help with the script of "Terminator Salvation" but declined out of respect for James Cameron. But now, he wants back in on the franchise, my guess is because he saw how successful the film was.

Wisher has completed scripts for the next two films, but...neither of them have been picked up by anyone, mainly due to the franchise being in limbo as of late. Now that the franchise has a new owner, that may change. Now, on to his ideas.

It seems that the 5th film would reference the 3rd film, which many of us ignore, as it was not the a very good film compared to the first two. He takes things back to the roots with more time traveling and suggests that Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese spent more than just one night together.



Wisher also has plans for more terminators, including a morphing terminator that is made up of several smaller forms, a la Voltron and another larger, more dangerous terminator. One of the biggest plot details he gave was that there is a pivotal role for the Govenator that is "more shocking than him returning as a bodyguard in the second film."


Well, while "Terminator Salvation" wasn't a terrible film, it certainly could have been better. I wouldn't mind seeing more Terminator films, as long as they are done well and provide us with more entertainment. Oh, and let's not include Sam Worthington anymore.
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ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 2/19/2010, 12:34 PM
@Keven- Whoa dude...count to ten and take deeeep breaths. It will be ok. LOL. I don't think Worthington is bad, just overhyped. There are a lot better and more capable actors out there. As far as him dying, with all the time travle that occurs in the Terminator films, no one is ever dead. How many times has Arnold's character died?
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 12:38 PM
I don't understand the over hype on Worthington. No i don't "hate" him, but he really deserves no acclaims. He's nothing more than decent. But of course, that's only my opinion.
Spock
Spock - 2/19/2010, 12:41 PM
I just want to say TERMINATE THESE NUTS!!!!
ArmouredAvenger
ArmouredAvenger - 2/19/2010, 12:51 PM
This is old news. and he only outlined the scripts.
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 2/19/2010, 1:11 PM
@ecksmanfan Worthington's character was a human turned part terminator you cant create his personality on an assembly line. Arnold was straight from the factory unlike Worthington who was a person with robot parts not robot with human parts like Arnold so in short Worthington is dead and don't worry i am not mad im just stating something
ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 2/19/2010, 1:17 PM
@Bleed- Good point, I forgot that. My bad.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/19/2010, 1:36 PM
maybe this guy isn't a good guy to get, i mean the whole franchise is filled with holes...because of this guy!

the machines send a terminator back to kill sarah connor so she doesn't give birth to john. so in answer, the humans then send back kyle reese (the father of john) to kill said terminator. if the terminators didn't want john to be born, they should never have sent back a terminator to begin with. its kinda silly, actually. the machines made it possible for john to be born when they sent back the terminator. and they KNEW kyle reese was the father?? huh?? kyle reese never would have been able to knock up sarah if the machines didn't send back the terminator.
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 1:48 PM
CorndogBurglar- Well... that depends on if you believe in the eternal soul, reincarnation and the hypothesis of whether or not we choose our parents before birth. Cause if you believe that we are our own person no matter who our parents were, then who his father actually is would be irrelevant. It could be anybody and the outcome would still be... John Connor leading the resistance.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/19/2010, 1:50 PM
and then T2 came along and screwed the story even more by saying that the remains of the first terminator are what gave the humans the technology to create Skynet. well, if the humans needed the terminator remains to creat skynet, then how did Skynet exist in the future to send back that terminator???

its all a bunch of shite! these are pretty damn big plot holes to base a whole franchise on. all i'm saying, is this guy might not be a good choice to bring back, since he didn't think of these huge details while writing the original 2.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/19/2010, 1:51 PM
@ shaman

right, but if that were the case, then it wouldn't matter if the machines killed sarah. he would be born no matter what. in T1, the whole point was to stop john from being born by killing his mother.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/19/2010, 2:16 PM
Its TIME TRAVEL!

Its supposed to get screwed up!! ; D

I reckon T5 & T6 = CAMERON and keep it in the future till the last movie, that will bring it all full circle!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/19/2010, 2:18 PM
P.S. WORTHINGTON was TERMINATOR SALVATION, BALE was useless in it! : P
ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 2/19/2010, 2:35 PM
@LEEE- You were useless in it! LOL. You know, when I first saw Salvation movie, I thought it was great. But the more I see it, the more I dislike it. You start to notice things. And you are right, Bale's character didn't really do all that much. Yeah, he had his parts, but not much.
1chris2
1chris2 - 2/19/2010, 2:43 PM
i liked sam too. but anyways i would like to see the humans win the war finally,and see them create the time travel machines and start sending people and machines back,and john conner must die.but lets see the end already.
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 3:24 PM
CorndogBurglar- But the machines dont know that ;) Their effort is valid regardless of the probable outcomes. And even if they had succeeded, it would have altered the future as well as their consciousness. Making them perpetually try to accomplish the same goal but with different targets every time. So in theory, the machines' plot was better thought in T2. Because killing John Conner would have ended his life. But then, if you believe in the "collective" of the human mind, someone would have simply taken his place. In theory, John Connor wasn't "The Savior", he was humanity's elected savior. Had he not even existed since the birth of the resistence, someone would have surely led it not even aware that John Connor was meant to. Quite interesting once we think about it ;P
superdog
superdog - 2/19/2010, 4:04 PM
shaman@ your reading too much philosophy into it. its straight time travel. kyle reese explains that all the records were lost in the war and they knew nothing about john conners parents except the mothers name. sarah conner. not even a photograph, and certainly not his fathers name. so they went back to kill her so he wouldnt be born. since they didnt know reese was the father, corndogs theory is wrong about sending the terminator back. and yours is wrong about collective mind or being born no matter who they killed etc...he was john conner, the man destined to lead. if they killed sarah he wouldnt be born and they would win the war. pretty simple. all of it made sense to me, until salvation when it appears that the machines, for some stupid unexplained reason, now seem to know who kyle resse is. THAT in my opinion, is the biggest loophole in the series. they should have never hinted that they know he is the father cause that just blew everything out of the water. in the end, lee77 is actually right its time travel, its all fcked up :)
v1p3rS
v1p3rS - 2/19/2010, 4:14 PM
i liked wortington. bale was lame. he said ,,i'll be back,, but without austrian accent it's not the same
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 4:39 PM
Superdog- The thing is that, if the philosophy lends it's self to the concept, then it's a valid point of view until proven wrong. There is simply no such proof to debunk it. When you talk of John Connor, you only think of his name. If my theory is correct, the same man could have been born with the same purpose but with a different mother and name. It's alot of philosophy yes, but you can't prove it's wrong. John Connor's destiny or purpose was to lead because he was a leader in his own space & time. Had he not existed, someone would have led the same resistance in his place because there is such a thing as the human collective mind which the machines don't compute. And that collective has always felt it should never surrender. It's been so since the human being was able to "think". Or else, "war " would simply not have existed. Evil would have prevailed and slavery would still exist today. If John Connor would not have existed, there is no way in hell that humanity as a whole would let itself perish at the hands of their own abomination. "Some" humans would have surrendered, but not "humanity" entirely. That's why any resistance has limited numbers. But they're always there none the less as history has proven.

And last time i checked, there was no such thing as "straight time travel" or it's level of repercussions. At first, in the original timeline of the first film, the machines never knew that Reese was John's father cause he simply wasn't. Since time is linear in having a begining and an end, there is no possible way that Reese would have been John's father since the events of terminator 1 happened because of John's birth & existence. After John was born, THEN Reese went back in time and BECAME John's father. Or else, it would have meant that there was a loop in time with no cause for it's existence. And no matter which way you look at it, that is simply not logical. In fact, it's impossible in the sense that a loop in time would literally mean that time does not exist because it would go completely against the law of "Cause and Effect". That's why the machines knew of the existence of Reese in "Salvation" but not in Terminator 1. Sarah's word to mouth would have been enough without the need for a photograph.

Truth is, the machines would have never won. No matter how many "leaders" they would go back in time to kill, there will always be one to destroy them. But their artificial inteligence can't compute that. Connor wasn't special in the sense that there's nothing he could do that no one else could. The machines weren't smart enough to realise that. Their logic stipulates that it all comes from one source, mastermind or a "leader" if you will which is false when it comes to human beings but true when it comes to machines. Had the artificial inteligence been really smart, it wouldn't have started a war to begin with establishing all outcomes to humans never surrendering and eventually winning. Like a chess game computer. Check mate.
ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 2/19/2010, 5:13 PM
My head hurts.
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 5:16 PM
Oh come on, McCoy. You know what i'm sayin' homes LOL ;P
superdog
superdog - 2/19/2010, 5:28 PM
its one of those pre-destiny time travel things that never seem to make since. similar to lost. someone from the future goes back to the past to cause an event that leads to thier future, which should never have existed in the first place cause they havent gone back to the past yet. it doesnt seem to make since. sort of like the old anecdote, if i go back in time and kill my grandfather i wouldnt have been born. but if i am never born i wouldnt have been alive to go back in time to kill my grandfather, therefore i would have been born, but if i was born i would have gone back in time to kill my grandfather and on and on and on. its very confusing......wheres doc brown when you need him :)
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 5:31 PM
superdog- LOL yes it is confusing LOL. But i guess that is why theories exist with proof of truth or falseness. I guess you can only follow your intuition. That's what i always preach ;)

Can you believe i failed philosophy 101? When nothing can be proven wrong or right? I guess that why "biasism" exists. LOL :)
superdog
superdog - 2/19/2010, 5:41 PM
college philosophy classes are crap. they still have biases as you say. dont remember any of them talking about time travel though......might of made it more interesting.
ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 2/19/2010, 5:42 PM
@Shamen- Even the great McCoy can't keep up with or understand the logic and timetable of the Terminator Universe.
AshleyWilliams
AshleyWilliams - 2/19/2010, 5:47 PM
I liked Terminator Salvation.
Sam Worthington was Great and Christian Bale was good.
Shaman
Shaman - 2/19/2010, 5:49 PM
superdog- Too true LOL

ecksmanfan- I guess that's what makes Cameron... uh... Cameron LOL ;P
gaikinger
gaikinger - 2/19/2010, 6:16 PM
i liked the cgi arnie and i liked the giant terminator...ummm thats about it. oh i liked the helicopter scene and thats really it. kinda sucked alot. too bad. terminator one was the best, f#@k the rest.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 2/19/2010, 8:32 PM
shaman thinks shes a vulcan. that is so cute. whos my widdle vulcan wulcan...yes you are...yes you are.
soperman
soperman - 2/19/2010, 9:04 PM
i think my brain is melting are you guys trying to make me go crazy, anyway who gives a shit about the time travel thing it happened so just enjoy the rest of the movie and screw the goddamn plot, it doesent have to make sense
Shaman
Shaman - 2/20/2010, 1:20 PM
gaikinger- Stop talking to me like that!!! I'm getting an erection...
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/22/2010, 9:10 AM
@ superdog and shaman

the bottom line is, its impossible for Skynet to exist in the future to send back the terminator in T1. in T2, they explained that Cyberdyne was only able to create Skynet because they had the hand and chip left over from the original terminator. but if Cyberdyne needed those two parts to create Skynet, then how did Skynet exist in the future to send that Terminator back????
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/22/2010, 9:11 AM
@ soperman

lol, i wish i could be like you, and watch movies without thinking about the plot...
Shaman
Shaman - 2/22/2010, 1:46 PM
CorndogBurglar- Well, Cyberdyne was probably destined to exist one way or another. Sending a terminator in the first film altered the future and in doing so; the reason for Cyberdyne's creation. No one knows truly how Cyberdyne got to exist prior to Terminator 1 but it doesn't mean it's a flat out impossibility. It's the same argument with who's the true father of John Connor.
soperman
soperman - 2/23/2010, 5:44 PM
@corndogburgler its a gift
Vital
Vital - 2/26/2010, 8:31 AM
I think it's like this guys, and I'm quoting Agent Smith on this, "it's inevitable". Hell, even Arnie says that things are inevitable. Regardless of who goes where, it will still end the same because that's how it ends. They win, John dies, supposedly.
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