"T4" appears to be a go - Ahnold to cameo?

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Will Arnold Be Back for "T4"?
Fri Sep 24, 5:45 PM ET
By Julie Keller

He might be governor, but Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't quite ready to say hasta la vista to The Terminator.

According to Daily Variety, Terminator 4 has emerged from development and is set to rise into production in 2005--and Schwarzenegger is in talks about making an appearance in the film.

John Brancato and Michael Ferris, the writers who penned Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines have finished a script with T3 director Jonathan Mostow, who took over the franchise from James Cameron.

What is up in the air is the cast. It remains to be seen if several key players will return, including Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl and Claire Danes. No official word on whether the two younger stars have been approached, but Variety reports that neither is believed to have signed an option agreement when they took on the roles of John Connor and Kate Miller in T3.

The biggest question mark, however, remains the supermachine himself. Schwarzenegger has reportedly been approached for the project, but if he does sign on to don those famous shades and leather jacket again, it will likely only be in a limited capacity. The buzz on T4 is that the story will revolve around a brand-new, bigger, badder even more indestructible killing machine.

The lack of Schwarnegger on the marquee might not be great news for the marketing department, but it should hearten the accountants.

T3 went down as one of the most expensive movies ever made with a production budget upwards of $200 million plus another $40 million in marketing costs, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Schwarzenegger alone pocketed a $30 million paycheck.

Still, T3 grossed more than $430 million worldwide and performed strongly on home video, guaranteeing the cyborg will be back for at least one more bloodbath.
 

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Bobak said:
Schwarzenegger alone pocketed a $30 million paycheck.

Sheeza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

On topic if T4 does go down how are they going to pull off introducing his "replacement"? Not sure if it's just me but when one thinks of the Terminator movie you can't help but think Arnie.
 

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Spoilers for those who havent seen T3...


The buzz on T4 is that the story will revolve around a brand-new, bigger, badder even more indestructible killing machine.

From that line alone it gives me the feeling that it would be the same thing as 2 and 3 were. A super powerful machine who is alot stronger then Arnie, but still he comes out on top.

Now isnt the end of T3 pretty much the start machine revolt... If anything I would expect T4 to be a war movie with the small number of humans who are left fighting against a massive number of machines.
 

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Ron McRae said:
Now isnt the end of T3 pretty much the start machine revolt... If anything I would expect T4 to be a war movie with the small number of humans who are left fighting against a massive number of machines.

That's what I was thinking - but I'm thinking humans say manage to steal and reprogram an army of T101's (Arnie's machine) to fight these "new" ones during the war of the machines... or something. Maybe we will even see them be sent back threw time in this movie? who knows :cool:
 

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No! I can't believe it. Why don't they stop while they're sort of ahead? I didn't care for T3 all that much, and now they're going to make a 4 to make sure it sucks (sort of like what the Alien series did, me thinks). Please, I hope it never gets off the ground.

Besides, I think the T1000 was the badest robot they've made so far... and you know they won't bring that one back. Sigh.

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The T3 terminator, a hybrid of the T800 and T1000 seemed stronger than the T1000, but I really don't understand why she was made of ferrous materials; remember when the magnetron was attracted to her, huh huh? Skynet should have been smarter than that to make a Terminator out of iron.

I agree with Spike, the T1000 not only proved to be a very tricky and tough adversary but was proven to be killed only by a few ways; extreme temperatures. Not the most convenient way.

If the story goes more into the future, the T800 requires only a cameo. Personally I really want to see what happens during the war and its ending. T3 left alot to the imagination.
 

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I'm all for another Terminator flick, I love this stuff. I am getting a little tired of same plot though (with Arnie rescuing Connor), and would really love to see some kind of war flick involving a post-apocolyptic war scenario.

I think that the whole post-nuclear landscape would be a terrific (and entertaining) way to show off the latest technology, as well as showing fans something that they have always wanted to see - more of the lovely war scenes. :)

I was sort of hoping that we'd see something like this with the last one, since the title was "War of the Machines" - but no luck. Oh well, it was still a pretty good flick I thought.
 

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galfordo said:
I'm all for another Terminator flick, I love this stuff. I am getting a little tired of same plot though (with Arnie rescuing Connor), and would really love to see some kind of war flick involving a post-apocolyptic war scenario.

I think that the whole post-nuclear landscape would be a terrific (and entertaining) way to show off the latest technology, as well as showing fans something that they have always wanted to see - more of the lovely war scenes. :)

I was sort of hoping that we'd see something like this with the last one, since the title was "War of the Machines" - but no luck. Oh well, it was still a pretty good flick I thought.
Yep, I'd like to see another Terminator movie myself. You gotta love Arnold. :buttrock:
 

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Terminator 4: Rise From The Ashes {my title} should be just that... in the aftermath of the nuclear war we see being waged at the end of T3. Rehashing the same plot a fourth time makes no sense as John Conor's Lieutenants are now dead, and the world is fubar. If Arnie isn't in it but for a cameo, it'll suck... and not bringing back Stahl to play Conor and would suck too. To me he did a better job than Furlong. I guess we'll all have to wait and see on this one, but for once I want an entire movie in the ashes of the war, not just snippets of it. After we see what was possible with Sky Captain, there's no reason to not have the whole burnt out world filmed both on extremely detailed/destroyed sets and blue screens.

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Anybody see the T3-3D thing that Cameron directed. That was apparently oficially part of the mythos. It showed a brief bit of the future. I think Skynet was a pyramid and they had giant T1000 spider things. I know it is a new director, but I wonder if any of that will factor in.
 

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Crissaegrim said:
Anybody see the T3-3D thing that Cameron directed. That was apparently oficially part of the mythos. It showed a brief bit of the future. I think Skynet was a pyramid and they had giant T1000 spider things. I know it is a new director, but I wonder if any of that will factor in.
If you meant that T2-3D movie at Universal Studios Orlando, I did. :buttrock:
 

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This will go above and beyond all previous definitions of SUCK.

I fucking hate Hollywood.
 

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Terminator 4: Rise From The Ashes {my title} should be just that... in the aftermath of the nuclear war we see being waged at the end of T3.

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

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To me he did a better job than Furlong.

Definitely - Furlong was/is too much of a nancy boy to play the general that saves the human race. I can appreciate the whole unlikely heroes thing, but that should only be taken so far. Furlong is a pretty decent actor, but I thought he was a little out of his element in T2 - which was still a very nice movie, but could've been that much better.

Mercenary X99 said:
I guess we'll all have to wait and see on this one, but for once I want an entire movie in the ashes of the war, not just snippets of it. After we see what was possible with Sky Captain, there's no reason to not have the whole burnt out world filmed both on extremely detailed/destroyed sets and blue screens.

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That sounds good - as long as they don't let the CGI detract from the grittiness of the Terminator world. If it's not done carefully, that stuff can really backfire.
 

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Spoiler


if you play the new terminator game it has the same story as T3 but the ending is diffrent at the end of the game there a super robot with Arnold Schwarzenegger voice coming out of it i have herd that this is the way the story will continue in the next movie
 
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I didn't think T3 was that, bad still i was use to how. James Cameron did, T1&T2 if any thing if the studio does, T4 i think that's pushing there luck. On that one every body knows, how it go's serise makes money. Then HollyWood get's a bad case of the squeal syndrome.

So they feel they must make, a squeal to cash in.Or die trying even if the, moive doesn't out do the original. Realy HollyWood these, days don't have original idea's any more. :shame:
 

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Really HollyWood these, days don't have original idea's any more. :shame:

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit man, HOLLYWOOD hasn't had any original ideas since James Cagney shouted "Look ma, I'm ontop of the world!" in the movie White Heat. ---Everything now is just rehashing a rehash, with more added $BLING. *It's like how many Goddamned movies about the sport of "Football" with and underdog team {be it NFL, College or Highschool} coming back from the brink to win a game, do we have to see/hear about in our lifetime? Well T4 is sorta' like those awful football films that almost always are "Based on a True Story"... you'll find something you may like about the different film, but in the end, we've seen it before. I can count the number of action/drama films in my DVD collection of 300 + that more or less have the same plot.

...perhaps Hollywood should try hooking up a Sensorium Overmind Control System to my brain, I've got stories the world has never seen in my noggin, along with soundtracks and movie titles and everything under the sun. Too bad the technology doesn't exist cause I'd simply hit the RECORD button on the unit and think out a mind fuck of a film, while sitting back jerkin' my penis and shooting my wad all over some asshole producers representing for the Hollywood system. Fuckin pieces of shit! *But out of boredom I'll be there to see T4 and whatever else gets thrown out at us just like the next person, though I must thank the movie gods for places like Video Search of Miami, as it's one of the few places a man can see movies of all sorts and not just the $Blinged out ca ca.

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I disagree about Hollywood not ever being original.

Granted, mainstream movies are rarely all that intereting, but so long as most of America marches to the megaplex every weekend, it ain't gonna change.

The independent movie circuit is still rife with fresh stories, I could start naming them off, but anyone who's a big fan of indies knows that the movie industry is still turning out quality work.

Of course, all the indie labels are basically owned by the major studio (but the studios basically butt out).
 
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