Confirmed: ‘Terminator 5′ In Development
Although Terminator Salvation was initially intended to be the first part of a new Terminator trilogy, its performance at the domestic US box office led many to question whether a fifth Terminator film would happen.
Then, to everyone’s surprise, the film gunned it on the international circuit, almost doubling Star Trek’s foreign take to hit a reasonable box office haul of $341M worldwide. That led to speculation that Terminator 5 might be back on the agenda – and it seems it is, with director McG now confirming Terminator 5 is being worked on as we speak.
In fact, in a recent interview with IGN, McG has not only confirmed Terminator 5 is being worked on, but so too is the third movie in the trilogy, Terminator 6.
Yeah, we’re working on it right now. We’re very far down the line with the story for that – for the next picture, and even the picture after that, and feeling good and we’ll see where that takes us. I mean, we’re making it. Warners is excited about it. Sony is excited about it. And we can’t wait to get back at it and show the world what becomes of that war and how we master time travel because we stayed away from time travel in Salvation and I missed it. We decided it was the right thing to do and we did a lot of things right in that movie and we did many things wrong in that movie. And we’ll learn from the experience and we’ll grow and I think the next movie is going to be even more exciting and a better film.
In terms of storyline McG says Terminator 5 will go back to the grass roots of time-travel and running from a new kind of Terminator:
One of the problems is that in a post-apocalyptic world, everybody’s a little bummed out because your brother melted… your friends are gone. Everything went haywire. So the idea is to play with one of the tried and true rules of the franchise – time travel – and introduce it in this picture. I don’t want to share too much, but let’s just say it’s very, very likely that John Connor is going to end up running through rooms like this where he knows something that none of us know. And I think that is a platform for great storytelling. Because I always love it when [Kyle] Reese is in our world, as you saw in the first picture, and everybody thinks he’s out of his [expletive] mind and he knows and he can’t afford to be concerned. And he’s got to convince someone he cares about to come with him! And that’s one of the engines. And we’ll have a much more clearly defined antagonist in the new picture. It will be more of a chase movie with a new Terminator that is on your ass.
And what would McG say to those who thought poorly of Terminator Salvation:
I think the film missed some of the fun that Jim [Cameron] brought to the early pictures…We’ll bring a little bit more relief in that [fun] capacity. Not to the degree that you saw in the third picture, but a little bit more than ours. We wanted to be very, very nose to the grindstone and really establish credibility and it worked in many ways and it was unsuccessful in other ways, because it wasn’t a unanimous world of “[Expletive] yeah, we love Terminator Salvation.” There were plenty of people who kicked us in the ass over it…clearly I didn’t do a good enough job on that picture and I didn’t satisfy the fanbase to the degree that I would expect to satisfy them. And I take that very seriously and I just work that much more diligently to make sure I do that in the next one…It was very difficult to follow in the footsteps of my hero, Jim Cameron. I did the best I could and I learned a great deal, and I’m certain that I’m a better storyteller now, having had that experience. And I think the next film is going to be very pleasing and very surprising to the fans. That’s the goal.
All good news for Terminator fans.
Source(s): IGN
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August 7th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I want Thomas Dekker to play John Connor. I want the Sarah Connor Chronicles back. The only reason I went to see Terminator Salvation was because I missed the TV show. It just made me miss it more. I was right, there was no Salvation without Sarah Connor!
August 8th, 2009 at 2:17 am
I also want the TSCC story in the Terminator movies. And I certainly want the TSCC cast involved too. Thomas Dekker IS John Connor while Christian Bale plays a guy who shouts a lot. Wow. And there is no longer any Terminator without the involvement of Lena Headey and DEFINITELY no credibility whatsoever without Summer Glau.
August 8th, 2009 at 3:56 am
It’s great that they’re still continuing the franchise in the films but seriously the films were only good with action (with the exception of T1 and T2) and bad with story. The Sarah Connor Chronicles was awesome in every aspect of the franchise/mythology. Even if they make hundreds of Terminator movies, there will always be a void in the franchise (and in me) that only TSCC can fill.
August 8th, 2009 at 6:06 am
As you know, FOX cancelled «Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles» after the 2nd season. This decision is made despite the ending with an extreme cliffhanger. The worldwide Fandom (Resistance) now fights for bringing it back. We’ve started several campaigns for this. One of our actions is a weekly meeting called TSCC Global Resistance Rally. We invite all people, who want our beloved show back, join this fight. To learn more, read topics here http://www.savethescc.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=37
August 10th, 2009 at 5:18 am
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just tell McG to keep it in the future!
WOOOOHOOOO t5 yeah
LOL @ you all sarah connor tv show sucks
November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 am
I’ve been a massive terminator fan for about 22 years now and don’t understand why Salvation is getting such a hard time!
No it isn’t t1, t2, t3 nor the series, but it’s good entertainment! I see it as an intro to the next two.
Roll on T5 if you ask me! And T6! I will be phoning the cinema to preorder my tickets straight away again!
Loved TSCC too! Miss that hour a week now…
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 am
I thought Salvation was alright didn’t hit as big as its predecessors but pretty good in my opinion, I think it would be good to keep it in the future, I would like to see a T 1000 become a good terminator and have it take on a new evil terminator. just my opinion.
December 15th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
What the hell!! Really everyone wants to see conner running from the terminators? Again? So if he is the “ONE” to stop the war & lead the resistance When is he gonna stop running & fight!! I guess John Conner should go back in time where he was a wimp complaing all the time threating to off himself. Cant win any war when your running from the fight. What Salvation was missing was a big epic battle Man vs Machine!! Thats what they need to give us, the first 3 movies only showed breif moments of a crazy ass war going on.. Conner ran for 3 movies I say lets fight!!!!
December 16th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
We have been fighting for a long time.
The war against the machines rages on.
It will rage on for the next two movies….
If you are reading this… You are the resistance.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
NO!! I wish somebody powerful would just ask me please “what can we do to (if we want to make another Terminator Movie) what can I as a director do? How will my story be? Listen. Enough!! We don’t need anymore surprises, because T3 already surprised us enough!! WE THE FANS KNOW WHAT THE STORY IS!! WE JUST NEED TO SEE IT VISUALLY!! To be honest I already have a plan I can make my own script, and still follow the story! What I would do is this!! (LOL my idea for the T5) The year is 2026. Skynet is developing new and special ways to destroy us. John Conner blew up the computer factory in San Fransisco after encountering the t-800 prototype. Which wasn’t at all very important considering the fact that the prototype failed. Kyle Reese has grown up, John Conner’s children had grown up. To develop into the most advance tech com unit! Now since we rushed to see the t-600’s and the unstoppable t-800, we cannot really show too much of the t-400s. But since t-800 was the prototype, SkyNet has to learn from its mistakes right? So we have learned that Marcus Wright has defeated the t-800. SkyNet needs something of more a human R&D project and to actually gives these cyborgs like a more serious control over them. Kinda like “The Terminator: Dawn of Fate game.” Now 2027 hits, we can actually see the more serious development the T-800 (we see how the skynet software for the T-800 was actually intended to travel back in time in T1. example the search and destroy tracker system when in T1 after the club shooting scene, when the Terminator was chasing Kylie and Sarah) That part I got ahead, but humans will be turned into a cyborg type thingy, and they will be simulated on the field by skynet. that when hit or killed they will just turn into liquid. (the future development of the T-1000 and TX) Lol see!! After this is all said and done, we will forget seeing T3 and just continue after T2. (because we were actually forced to continue with more Terminator Movies after the chip and the arm, and Cyberdyne and Dyson were all destroyed, but somehow things would eventually be surfaced and we will see that it relates to the first two films of the Terminator. I would def. at the end have skynet perfect cold fusion in order to have a successful time travel!! I would put Arnold in there as the finalized T-800 prototype (the same as the first Terminator in T1, actually the exact). Robert Patrick as the revived liquid simulated solders (200 cybernetic liquid simulated solders, not exactly terminators) Christian Bale as John Conner the leader of the resistance, Tech-Com, not as a solder though. Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese, being more protected so John Conner can save him to go back to 1984. (sort of like a secret weapon) I want everything to be as though as it was in the first terminator movie. Plus with Reese, in Salvation he was the prime target, so it will fall right into place, we will not alter no future!! I’am not a University of Pittsburgh student with a major in the sciences for nothing!!!
December 17th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I liked Terminator: Salvation. I liked Sarah Conner Chronicles as a series of fun variations-on-a-theme and I miss it now that it’s gone, especially having been left with the cliffhanger.
I want to see where McG was going because I thought T:S was pretty fun, with plenty of fun recalls to the originals but plenty of new and interesting ideas. I also want all of the footage restored. Looking at the film you can tell that there’s a LOT of transitional stuff missing, undoubtedly cut for time.
The machines can’t change the future and that’s their problem. One cannot change the future by travelling to the past. Once the past is changed there isn’t motivation to build a time machine and thus the past never gets changed. It’s a Mobius Strip of Catch-22. In the Terminator movies, we are only witnessing the events between the first time jump and the inevitable defeat of the machines.
I think that ignoring T3 for future installments is lazy. The movie got made and clever writers/directors should be able to just DEAL with it using (gasp) imagination. I think McG picked all the right elements to use from T3 and ignored the garbage.
I want to see more of the war with the machines and see more of Marcus Wright. Impossible? I don’t think so. If I saw it correctly, the rebuilt and awakened Marcus Wright looked down at a copy of himself wearing the clothes he had when he arrived at the Skynet facility. Maybe I saw it wrong… apologies if I did.
December 20th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Totally agree Seth Asa! I don’t know why people can’t deal with change but the story line of Salvation has hardly anything to do with the first 3 movies. This is a whole new ballgame. What’s done is done. Judgment Day happened and I wanna see the resistance kick some Terminator ass! I’m not sure what you saw in the end with Marcus Wright but I wanna see him back too and it seems to me all he needs is an energy source. Hmm, maybe something like what was used to blow up Skynet headquarters?! Oh, and I agree that Sarah Connor Chronicles rocked. Sure there were a couple of episodes that had me asking myself, what the? However, I nearly went into a depression when I found out that I would never see what happens after that awesome season finally!
December 29th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Just saw Terminator Salvation last night. To be honest, I didn’t think it was very good. First, I think most people were expecting the head-to-head epic battle between man and machine. We only got bits and pieces. The storyline was weak. It really was weak.
Now the positive. I thought they scored a home run with the “apocalyptic” future. The visuals were very well done. Also, the Marcus Wright character threw a nice twist into the plot. I agree with those people that say that time travel has been done to death so lets do something different. This director is obviously going for the easy way out. Just because your “hero” James Cameron did time travel doesn’t mean you have to do it. Just focus on the future.
December 31st, 2009 at 7:48 am
I watched Terminator 4 this morning after hearing a bunch of people hated it, and I have to say…it was good. Not great, but a step in the right direction and a heck of a lot better than T3! I really hope that McG doesn’t screw T5 up with time travel crap. The ending for Salvation leads into the next part of the war, so let’s see that! No need for time travel to come into the equation unless Kyle Reese is going back. I look at how much Heroes on NBC suffered because of too much time & space stuff, but the only saving grace for that was the fact that it airs weekly. If the next installment of the Terminator franchise screws it up royally, we may not even get to see a sixth movie…
January 11th, 2010 at 10:15 am
I thought terminator salvation was a good intro to a new “post-judgement day” trilogy. The whole franchise has pretty much been reborn because of this film in my eyes so that is saying alot for the movie in itself. I think the idea of having John Connor travel back in time to warn mankind about judgement day and help the world’s military forces defend humanity against an impending skynet attack could be very interesting. With H-Ks and T-800s traveling back in time aswell it almost paints a picture of the “Man vs. Machine” War scenes that are shown briefly in James Cameron’s T1, & T2, and even in Jonathan Mostow’s T3. McG could be gearing up to give Terminator Fans exactly what we want, but not only that it may be exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Humans would obviously only have access to modern warfare at first, but as they advance against the machines they would be able to use “Plasma-Guns” from defeated T-800s (as seen in the previous films).
One thing I would like to eventually see along with almost every other terminator fan in the world… John Connor sending Kyle Reese on a mission: to travel back in time and protect his mother from a T-800 programmed to terminate her. Then John Connor realizes history has been altered by Kyle & the T-800 travelling back in time, although the mission was a success and Sarah is alive and safe Judgment Day will now happen even sooner with the technology obtained from the Chip and Arm of the defeated T-800 remains. A scientist for Cyberdyne Systems (Miles Dyson) would base all of his research around it accelerating the creation of skynet and judgement day. In the future, skynet now has access to the T-1000 and uses this model for its most critical mission: To eradicate any chance of human victory by terminating the young John Connor who is to become the leader of the resistance. John Connor already knows a T-1000 will be sent to terminate him when he is young and vulnerable, he has vivid memories that have haunted him since he was a teenager. So he and the resistance capture a T-800 from skynet and reprogram it’s CPU. This T-800 now takes commands from John Connor, even the young John Connor when it travells back in time on a mission to protect him. The Young Connor orders the T-800 to help him save his mother, destroy Cyberdyne and the remaining chip and arm postponing the inevitable Judgement Day.
Furthermore the plot of T6 could be based around Kate Bruster Sending another T-800 reprogrammed to protect her younger self and John Connor from the TX (Jonathan Mostow’s T3) Which would be the last and most important mission of all: To ensure the survival of John Connor and Kathrine Bruster so they can start the beginning of what will become the Human Resistance and lead mankind to ultimate victory.
Thats my take on the subject
January 12th, 2010 at 10:54 am
hey people i just think is better that they know they fucked up the last film, and hope the next one is more entertaining. the tv show was good for about 60seconds then it was garbage,if they do connect the fifth film with the show i hope they don’t stay stock on just the timetravel idea. i think his father said they found the machine but didn’t know mush about where it came from or who build the thing? please just tell the person who’s filming the next one to wash terminater one,two and listeng or read the script. A big fan for years and now is like i got nothing good to say about the reason film.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I pray that the Terminator ‘movie’ franchise takes on nothing to do with the SCC’s whatsoever! I am a huge fan of Terminator and was quite exited to hear about this TV show but after viewing many of the episodes realized how appalling it actually is. The show is full of plot holes, tacky characters and story lines. Total cheese. they twisted and distorted the entire Terminator idea to make a weak one hour time slot to sell advertisements. Movies are a completely different animal to TV and to combine the two would undermine the franchise and quite simply be a p..s weak cash grab. Do any fans of the SCC’s ever wonder why the show was canceled? It didn’t make it on TV and it wont make it at the box office where people actually pay to view something. Forget that idea please, for the sake of the franchise. don’t ruin a classic.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I know the idea of John connor going back in time might work good as a plot. But I don’t think that’s what termnator fans really want. I believe they want something more authentic. Judgement day happens and there has already been 3 films about travelling back in time before judgement day happens. I think McG should keep going in the direction he started and focus on the future. Pick up where salvation left off. According to judgement day Connor sends Reese back in time 35 years from 1991 making John 45. Also it shows Kyle as a soldier in the year 2026 A.D. So he must be sent back around or after that time. Another thing is that T1 states that only living organisms can travel through the time displacement field so McG’s idea of H-Ks going back in time totally breaks one of the legendary laws of the saga. Plus the war shows humans using futeristic weapons in a land covered in human skeleton remains from the nuculear blasts, which all means the war takes place after judgement day, not to mention the date says 2026 A.D which says it all.
I think the more authentic the film is to the originals, the more the fans will like it. Every die hard fan seemed to like all the T1 / T2 references. Sarah Connor’s taped recordings, Arnold being the T-800 and not Roland Kickinger, Kyle Reese tying a shotgun to his arm using a piece of rope, the T-600s having rubber skin, the Polaroid Photograph of Sarah Connor, all these aspects were authentic to the first films and Fans Loved It!
As said before, I think the next two films should be based around the future war against the machines, and the only time travel shown should be that which happened in T1,T2, & T3.
So T5 in a nutshell should be Connor smashing skynets defense grid and sending Kyle Reese Back in Time to 1984 to protect his mother, although he already knows skynet will try to terminate him in the year 1991 aswell but he cannot send Kyle to both 1984 and 1991 at the time especially since he plans on destroying the time displacement field after sending him. So he captures a T-800 and reprograms it to protect him then sends both Kyle and the re-programmed T-800 at the same time, Kyle to 1984 and the T-800 to 1991. Just as skynet sends two terminators to kill John at the same time, one to the year 1984 to strike at Sarah, and another to 1991 to strike at John himself.
T6 in a nutshell should be Kathrin Brewster sending another captured T-800 back in time to protect both herself and John Connor so that they can start the beginning of what will become the human resistance and lead mankind to ultimate victory. And I think that T6 should actually be about that, mankind winning the war and John Connor leading the resistance to victory. Even If a T-800 ends up killing John Connor in the future it should show how he wins the war for the humans before dying and how the whole meaning of his existance and purpose of his life was to lead the humans to survival and now he has finally succeeded.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:33 am
I wish there’s gonna be a lot of robots fighting against human resistnace and John connor leads the human race to their freedom from Skynet.
February 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Man these Terminator movies are the best! The first one was awesome, the second one was completely awesome, the third one was beyond all coolness. It left me speechless and in awh! To me, I thought that the 3rd movie would end it all. It was a very good ending, and really I didn’t really want to see what would happen afterward. Til Salvation came up and man it was awesome!
All you people who hated it, just stop complaining and be glad there was another movie. Putting time travel into the picture would spice things up a bit. If they ever stop making the Terminator movies, then I want to see Kyle Reese going back through time and John blowing the time displacement machine up.
The Terminator:SCC was awesome and want there to be more. Even though if it doesn’t follow the Terminator timeline make more episodes. This show was taking the Termiator timeline to a new level.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
I love all the T movies the first one was awesome and like one of you guys said is not that bad is just like the Intro i cant wait for #5 i like the name and the movies so much that my Gamertag is TERMINATORSS im a true fun so dont listen to the dumbass haters hope it comes out soon
February 5th, 2010 at 2:09 am
I want Terminator 5 to have yes of course the cast of TSCC in it but I want Arnold Back for reals or just quit the Terminator all together I mostly like Terminator because of Arnold where is the Terminator he was in Terminator 1 & Terminator 2 I would like to see how he became the main Terminator I know they showed small bits in his cameo but was he human before or did they make him a Terminator from scratch I want to know Arnold’s Terminator origin like they showed Cameron on TSCC on season 2 episode 4. Please don’t fuck up The Terminator anymore the show was great but without Arnold in the show or the movies the Terminator is not complete Cameron is a good addition it would be cool to see her fight Arnold’s Terminator how about making Arnold a T-900 this time and Cameron a T-X Model Number 002.