Hey, look at that: Not an hour after I get back from an advance screening of Fast Five, the news has gotten out that Fast Five director Justin Lin’s officially on board to reboot the Terminator franchise (yes, reboot again, but I think we can all be grown ups here and, when discussing movies about killer robots, agree to pretend that Terminator Salvation never happened). This time Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attached to star, because of course. Deadline has the scoop.
Cool by me. The Terminator series was awesome for two movies, crappy for a movie, awesome again for a TV show, and then crappy again for another movie, so it’s not like this franchise is some sacred cow—James Cameron washed his hands of it long ago, and god knows they’re gonna keep going back to it until they get it right (possible!) or until people get sick of watching rampaging robots go on rampages (impossible!). Lin’s a decent action director, they’ll no doubt come up with something entertainingly ridiculous to explain why the T-800 is all old and paunchy now (“I hahve been prograhmmed vith ah new mission… to terminate Snickahs bahrs!”), and regardless of how the actual movies turn out, at least we can rest assured that delusional Salvation director McG is currently crying himself to sleep. So let’s just chalk this up as a win.
Does that mean we’re gonna see him naked again?
(That’s not glistening perspiration, it’s flop sweat!)
I feel that Rise and Salvation, mixed together, make one great movie and one horrible movie. What this series really needs to do is just dial back the scope a bit. A Terminator (both as a movie and as a killer robot) has not been scary since 1991. We need to feel like we’re being hunted again.
So that little is going to direct?
@Marq: I think both Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dark Horse’s Terminator: 2029 and Terminator: 1984 comic series did that.* Movie-wise, though, I suspect we’re stuck with un-scary, PG-13 Terminators from here on out.
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