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McG on Terminator Salvation Sequel

  • 08-05-2009 4:00am
    #1
    PullMyFinger!
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    Terminator Salvation isn't even out yet, but according to an interview with Film Journal International, McG is already discussing the next Terminator film, in what sounds like plans for a trilogy. Here is what he had to say…
    "I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011. 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."

    He also added…

    "The Terminators of the future have 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 f*@king awesome."

    McG also mentioned plans for Robert Patrick
    of T2 fame, where a present day Patrick is, "talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves."



    McG + a Billion dollar franchise = Fail.


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  • #2
    BlitzKrieg
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    oh sweet jesus that sounds f*cking awful.

    but so does salvation so no surprise there.

    I knew there had been plans for a trilogy for a while, between the ending rumours and the general murmer of this film being a sort of premise reboot.

    But I was under the impression that the trilogy was going to be a future trilogy where it was all set post judgement day and was essentially a post apocalyptic lord of the rings.

    But he has f*cking lost the plot with his future invasion idea.

    The premise of the terminator films was that it was a game of cat and mouse with near indestructable machines but modern setting and modern weapons.

    Cross that basic premise and the film goes to crap.

    case in point terminator 3.

    the sarah connor chronicles has been holding on because it keeps skirting around this notion most of the time landing on the right side (temporal time shifts and cold war, sleeper agents, cromartie and john henry) and sometimes landing on the very wrong side (too many terminators/people from the future, future weapons showing up in preasent.)



    But MCG comes across as some sore looser who wanted to do transformers but Bay beat him to it so he is just trying to recreate it with the terminator franchise.


  • #3
    Richard Dower
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    The guy really is a total muppet, if only James Cameron was involved.


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
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    BlitzKrieg wrote: »
    But MCG comes across as some sore looser who wanted to do transformers but Bay beat him to it so he is just trying to recreate it with the terminator franchise.

    I really wasn't quite sure what to say but that one sentence sums up both his vision for the new franchise as well as the trailer for Salvation. Words can't describe the frustration I feel at the part in the trailer when that giant Transformers-esque thing flies up on screen. It even looks the same as the part on the highway in the TF2 trailer.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
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    Plus the fact that McG has trouble with even the most basic elements of directing. Has anyone actually watched the Charlie's Angels films? Muddled, confused directing which leaves the audience wondering not only what the hell is going on but also where the hell the characters are in relation to each other at times.

    The man's a hack.


  • #6
    Sleazus
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    I don't know. the moment I really worried about the move (and yes - Christian Bale's involvement and Jonathan Nolan's did assuage me a bit) was the moment during Bale's rant when he called the director "McG". Seriously, the guy doesn't just have a god-awful nom de plume, but people actually address him as that?


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  • #7
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    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    McG + a Billion dollar franchise = Fail.

    McG: :mad: Am I going to walk around and rip your
    post down, in the middle of a
    thread? Then why the ---- are you trashing my
    film? Ah-da-da-dah, like this in the background. What the ---- is it with you?

    What don't you
    understand? Give me a
    answer!!! What don't you get about it? Do you want me to
    go trash your post? Do you want me to
    trash 'em? Then why are you trashing my film?

    You do it one more
    time and I ain't walking on that set if you're still complaining. I'm
    serious. You're a nice guy. You're a nice guy, but that don't
    cut it when you're
    around like this on boards.ie

    :D


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