The ‘Terminator Salvation’ Ending That Could Have Been
Back in April we learned from McG that the ending of Terminator Salvation isn’t a happy one and it will leave audiences divided.
“It’s not a happy little bow of an ending at all,” he said. “The ending is tough and requires reflection, and in some degrees it bifurcates the audience. You walk back to the car and one person thinks it means this, and the other person thinks it means that.”
Whilst we’ll have to wait until May 21 to see the ending for ourselves, we now know that whatever it is, it could have been tougher, unhappier and even more divisive. Recently McG spoke at a press roundtable where he served up insight on what the ending was going to be – before it was changed.
That was at a time when there was a very dark ending. There was a great irony in the way this film shook down. There was this leak that Connor dies and they put Connor’s face on top of the machine body of Marcus. Everybody went, “Booooooo, what’s that?” That’s half of it [the ending]. We had a jet-black ending. Connor dies, we’re in a room with all the people we care about. You take Connor’s likeness, you put it on the living machine of Marcus. He sits up, now looking like Christian Bale, takes a gun, kills Kate, kills Kyle, kills Star, kills everybody, eyes flare red, [snaps] the end.
Apparently the ending just described was actually filmed because McG is still deciding whether or not to include it on the DVD as an extra. Let’s hope he does, no matter how grim it is. It would be sad to hear about it and never get to see what could have been.
Terminator Salvation opens in theaters:
USA – May 21
Canada – May 22
UK – June 3
Australia – June 4
Source: io9
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