TERMINATOR 5 to go [cue huey lewis music] Back in Time!!

[Sussudio]

We know there's going to be a "Terminator 5" (and "Terminator 6"). We know Robert Patrick may appear in it (playing the chap that created the T-1000, the character Patrick played in 1991s "Terminator 2 : Judgment Day"). And we know it'll involve killer robots (like duh!) - but McG, who'll produce and likely direct the next instalment, has been pretty tight-lipped on story details for the next (and so he should - "Terminator Salvation" isn't even out yet; no need to get ahead of ourselves, is there?). Until today.

The filmmaker tells Filmjournal that in the next film John Connor and crew discover time-travel.

"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 ****ing 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."

Source: Moviehole

What do you think about this idea for a storyline? What are some things you'd like to see in T5 if/when it comes out? There are already numerous T4 threads in existence and I'd like to be respectful of those, so please try and keep the discussion in here relating to the above article

[drichter33]

I think its shit- I wish they could keep it simple.

We finally get a movie in the future, which I thought was a 3 movies arc and a story that involved the war starting, continuing, and ending. But now he wants to jump back before the war starts, to prep armies in the past for a war in the future?

Isnt that what they have already done- gone back in time to stop the military from developing the stuff in the first place. So now, another crazy SOB is gonna go back again and try to tell them a war is coming and mobilize?

I dont like it. I just want and army of endoskeletons marching across a battlefield tearing shit up.

[xtop]

going into the past again kind of seems counterproductive to me

[Darkhawk9587]

Originally Posted by xtop

going into the past again kind of seems counterproductive to me

I agree. I thought these three movies were supposed to be the fight in the future. The only time I could see going to the past is at the end of the final one, with Arnold going to the past, thus completing the cycle. That's just me I guess.

[NARMAK]

i always love it when time travels mentioned

biggest flaw is you then have a possibility of multiple realities with only one having it's future or past changed through the interaction of time travelers but the rest going about anyhow the same way

i did geek out there didn't i but my point is as always let's wait & see what they decide for real after T4 is out & the above was humour

[OrlandoEastwood]

So I guess Marcus Wright dies then?

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

So I guess Marcus Wright dies then?

Or Connor dies and they go back in time so that marcus protects him, but marcus dies in the past, thus john is surprised to see marcus in part 4! Ah ha!

[buckshot]

if they've got time travel down will there be a movie with arnold and all the other john connor actors too? lets get everyone into one big confusing pointless film. i still hope salvation rocks. cuz if they go this route it will be the last one i see.

Originally Posted by NARMAK

i always love it when time travels mentioned

biggest flaw is you then have a possibility of multiple realities with only one having it's future or past changed through the interaction of time travelers but the rest going about anyhow the same way

i did geek out there didn't i but my point is as always let's wait & see what they decide for real after T4 is out & the above was humour

i think the tv show went over that and i geeked out too "they're finally understanding that theres repurcussions to time travel!" it was cool. different people who knew each other but from different futures. but i still think that going back would be dumb.

[BirdManJr]

SALVATION WILL ROCK!!!!

I PUT MY REPUTATION ON THE LINE HERE...MARK MY WORDS!!!
(like i have any kind of reputation here but who cares)

It cant really be worse than wolverine....can it??

[Moefiz]

Think MCG is getting ahead of him self a bit there.

T1 and 2 was excellent, T3 was ok and T4 looks good but if they were going to do a time travel story what yr was Connor return to..

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

Think MCG is getting ahead of him self a bit there.

T1 and 2 was excellent, T3 was ok and T4 looks good but if they were going to do a time travel story what yr was Connor return to..

how about the 1800s!!

[iori]

Sounds terrible.

[Aerodude73]

At first it sounded like a good idea, but as others noted above, hasn't it already been done? I mean, how many times does one movie franchise use the "time travel" thing to essentially re-do what was tried, right? Again, None of us knows if this is the Final story draft and what changes it may go thru so we "could" try to remain objective and see what happens. Hell, he might not even Direct it by then. Directors change all the time on these big-budget movies ("Superman", others), so maybe this is Idea # 1 of who knows how many ideas get tossed into the pot before T5 comes out in 3-5 years anyway.

[Ator the Invincible]

Wait. 2011 is pre-Judgment Day? That doesn't sound right. What year did Rise of the Machines take place in? They've covered the whole time travel aspect of the franchise already. I was excited to have a trilogy of films finally set in the future depicting how John Connor saves humanity. Do we really need more time travel? Come on! I mean a few scenes showing Kyle Reese and the various Arnold Terminators leaving for the past would be cool. But that's it!

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

how about the 1800s!!

but how would he get his endoskeleton up to 88mph?

[Monkey]

I hope they go back to 10,000 B.C. and have robots with lasers riding giant Mammoth's

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Monkey

I hope they go back to 10,000 B.C. and have robots with lasers riding giant Mammoth's

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Monkey

I hope they go back to 10,000 B.C. and have robots with lasers riding giant Mammoth's

That would be awesome!

Logan

[iori]

Originally Posted by Monkey

I hope they go back to 10,000 B.C. and have robots with lasers riding giant Mammoth's

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2...dersPoster.jpg

[mikejet]

I thought they established in T3 that Judgement day in inevitable and will always happen.