In a conversation with FilmJournal, Terminator Salvation director McG has given fans their first glimpse at the intended storyline for Terminator 5.

From FilmJournal:

“I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be fucking awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who famously played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.”

We’ve known since Terminator Salvation began that it was always designed to be the first movie in a story that spans three movies.  Like any trilogy, the green-light for the second movie (Terminator 5) is highly dependent upon the success of the first (Terminator Salvation). With McG’s summary of the intended Terminator 5 story offering all kinds of awesome filmmaking possibilities, more than ever we’re hoping Terminator Salvation becomes a major success.

If you’re interested in gaining even more insight into McG’s ideas behind his production of Terminator Salvation, we highly recommend reading the article at FilmJournal.  There’s some interesting reading about McG’s first meeting with James Cameron (Terminator / Terminator 2: Judgment Day).  He also talks about why he thinks it’s fair that people were worried that he would ruin the Terminator franchise, why he specifically wanted Christian Bale for the role, and why he wanted to film with real explosions and bullets instead of CGI.  The article does a lot for raising confidence in McG as the right man for the helm to, as he says, “restore order and credibility in the house of Terminator.”

Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, McG’s real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol.

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