McG Plans To Bifurcate Audience With Terminator Salvation Ending

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 16, 2009

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Sounds gross doesn’t it? McG, he of the vowel-less name, spoke with MTV recently about his previously announced plans for a fifth and sixth Terminator film. It all depends on the box-office success of this summer’s Terminator Salvation of course, but if all goes well the director says he already has an idea for the story arc. And it all starts with the new film’s end…

The ending is indeed elliptical, and it challenges the audience. It’s not a happy little bow of an ending at all. 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.”

Technically speaking, all three of the previous Terminator films have been open ended to some degree but still managed to be complete films on their own. I’m curious as to what exactly can be construed as vague or obscure in a Terminator film, but my money’s on John Connor being a replicant.

Have you ever been bifurcated on by a loved one? Unpleasant isn’t it?


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  • mr.C
    why can't they just stop??? why make more??
  • Or what about Kyle Reese getting replaced by a replicant and finding a way to still send him back to the past. There's a twist for you.
  • I don't like the way this sounds, but I do want more Terminator movies. The clips for this are fucking insane-o awesome. Christian Bale is in it! It takes place in the future! As long as they don't fuck it up (like that possible ending/leak/rumor about Bale's skin being put on a robot or some shit) I'm in for the long haul.
  • "like that possible ending/leak/rumor about Bale's skin being put on a robot or some shit"

    Wait, what? How could that be? Bale is John Connor, and unless he sends the dude that will ultimately be his pops back in time in Salvation, then he can't die/become a terminator in this one or that screws up the continuity with the first film.

    Or I am missing something. Which is possible, since I didn't drink any coffee this morning on account of having run out of filters.
  • There was an early rumor that at the end John Connor was killed, so they skinned him and used his skin to cover Marcus' half-human half-cyborg body or whatever and that Marcus, posing as John Connor, went on to fulfill the destiny or whatever. McG came out and said it was fake, but the rumor was said to have come from someone who read the script. Clearly the worst idea in Sci Fi history, so hopefully that doesn't happen.
  • Wow. No kidding. Fingers crossed.
  • Chille
    While the movie looks cool, just the fact that they went from James Cameron to McG just makes me sad for the franchise.
  • Scanain
    Stick to the standards set my the first two. Gritty violent bloody films with singular focus and - lets face it - minimal chatter.

    Terminator 3 fell down because of too much angst and not enough metal cold violence.

    The Terminator is frightening because it can simply ignore conventional defences and when something attacks your very sense of security its unsettling.

    You lock your door, he can break it down
    You by a gun, he's immune to bullets
    You go to the police station, he walks in calm as day and can still get you

    It's basic conventional horror transplanted into a kick ass action film... but it *is* horror.

    It's an escape story, but your escaping from an intelligent machine that keeps coming and can calculate where you are likely to be.

    Thats just scary as hell.

    Terminator 3 was too 'cute' with a crappy script, bad direction and an enemy terminator that just didn't work for me at all. Realistically, Terminator 2 went down this road with all the thumbs up, high fives and a more friendly terminator - but then Cameron can pull that off and there were still very claustrophobic set pieces that kept the horror, dread and 'fight or flight' alive.

    The genre changes in an open war setting, but this movie should (in my view) a cross between Terminator 1 and Shindlers list. I don't see how it can be gritty and soul destroying the way it should be in a war humanity is losing at a PG13 rating, but then again - there are some pretty dark films out there that have managed.

    The only reason I want this film to be cool is because it *could* be mind blowingly awesome and if it isn't, this 'type' of film is probably not going to be made again for some time - and that would really be a shame. High budget, apocolyptic, humanity murdering Ai films are hard to come by!
  • Didrik Van Basten
    Of course MCG is open for a sequel. We knew that as the studio has already greenlit a sequel as reported by several sites already. He's the spark that will make thie project be on fire. I shook my head in disbelief when they chose him. But he's proven several times that he has great ideas and dedication to the franchise which is something that mostow lacked. MCG is actually a terminator nerd like the rest of us, so that proves he won't intenetionally fujck up the storyline.
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