McG Wants To Make Terminator 5 & 6

McG Determined to Further Ruin Everything You've Ever Loved

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God, rot in hell, McG.

After directing the middling Terminator: Salvation, a pretty film to look at with some impressive action scenes and zero emotional resonance (not to mention one of the all-time stupidest endings), I would have hoped that McG was persona non grata in the Terminator camp. And with the rights to the film up in the air at the moment — Halcyon is bleeding cash and needs to sell the franchise to stay alive — the future of future Terminator flicks is murky at best. For the love of God, can we stop giving the franchise to half-assed directors with no idea how to revive the franchise?

Anyway, according to Slashfilm (via Gizmodo), McG talked on the Salvation Blu-Ray Live commentary on Saturday night about his desire to keep going (while also apparently comparing himself to Hitchcock - douchebag). Apparently, his vision was for Salvation to be the first entry of a trilogy of Terminator films. Yes, he wants to make a fifth and sixth one, and at some point even wants to revive Sarah Connor. The man behind Charlie’s Angels wants to do his very best to drive the franchise deep into the ground, and then piss in the hole. That’s just outstanding. Hey, let’s give him Superman next. I mean, that hasn’t been totally ruined yet. Or better yet, Batman! Yeah, screw Christopher Nolan and his gorgeous rendering of Gotham. Let’s give all of our favorites to McG. And then Hollywood will simply drown in our bile.

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Listen, and understand. That McG is out there. He can't be bargained with. He can't be reasoned with. He doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead (from apathy).

Posted by: branded at December 7, 2009 10:01 AM

Maybe we can convince McG and Uwe Bole there's a conference for the best directors of all time (zomgz) and then just fire bomb the building, dump a couple of tons of lead on it, and til the soil with salt so nothing can ever grow again.

Posted by: Reina at December 7, 2009 10:13 AM

That movie was such a fucking waste. I so wanted to love it but it was exactly like you said, very pretty to look at, some amazing action scenes, but the acting was meh and the ending was beyond retarded. I did like the actor playing the new terminator though I have to say he was the best part of the movie and normally I want to have Christian Bale's baby but in this movie he was upstaged.

Posted by: LittleDeadGirl at December 7, 2009 10:25 AM

If a series is miserably rebooted and nobody cares, was it ever really rebooted?

Let's just ignore the whole thing and put out vibes to Hollywood for say...David Lynch's Terminator.

Posted by: Cindy at December 7, 2009 10:35 AM

Let's give McG the reigns on the Twilight series.

That way, it too can do shit box office and kill off a franchise.

Please?

Posted by: Robert at December 7, 2009 10:37 AM

All the commenters here have exactly the correct attitude toward this news.

Posted by: , at December 7, 2009 10:39 AM

Each time a movie is made the director should be required to sit down with a five year old child and answer every single question the child asks. If that child is able to ask a question about the plot that the director is incapable of answering, the film should be destroyed and the director killed.

Child: "Why don't the Termnitater machines kill Mr. Kyle Reece?"
McG: "Why would they do that, son?"
Child: "Well, he's Batman's daddy right?"
McG: "He is."
Child: "And the mean robots know that, right?"
McG: "They do."
Child: "And they know that he's gonna go back to the future to make a baby with Batmans' mommy, right?"
McG: "Something like that."
Child: "So if they just kill him now, they'll stop all of that and Batman will never be born, right?"
McG: "Ummm..."
Child: "So how come they don't just kill him?"
McG: "..."
Studio Thug: "Mr. G, I'm afraid you're going to have to come with us, sir."
McG: "No, I can fix it in the editing process. It's not finished yet."
Studio Thug: "I'm afriad it's too late sir. Don't make this harder than it is."
McG: "No! Noooo!" *tries to run*

Gunshot ring out, followed by the pleasant laughter of an innocent child.

The End.

If only.

Posted by: superasente at December 7, 2009 10:57 AM

Colostomy Bag: Shit Just Got REAL written, directed, and starring McG.

In a world...made entirely out of human waste...one man reeks the most. Starring the sensational movie-talent McG as the smelly dwarf Colostomy Baggins, in an autobiographical rendition of his freakish life.

"Yeah, that's my real name. Why the hell do you think I call myself McG? Being a douchebag is better than sounding like I crawled up out of a toilet...which I did." -- McG (C. Baggins)

Coming to a theater in your nightmares.

Posted by: Moon Buggy at December 7, 2009 11:36 AM

Part of the problem is that several critics saw fit to actually give Salvation some measure of positive reinforcement. Many claimed it was an improvement over the third installment. It didn't deserve that measure of praise. At all.

I said it before, and I'll say it again. I like my Terminator films to include some actual...gee, I dunno...terminating? Apparently PG-13 only allows robots to toss people around in the room and throw them in prisons. What a load of dung.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 7, 2009 11:51 AM

You know what makes me really angry about this news? The fact that if it has Terminator in the title, I'll watch it. I can't help myself. I'm a sucker.

Posted by: stardust at December 7, 2009 11:57 AM

Unless people tell me the new Batman movie is good, I won't watch it.

I am a big fan and I have seen the last 2 movies without needing to hear anyone's opinion. But I am not blindly devoted anymore.

To the studios: If you do not make a decent movie, if you give it to someone like McG, I will not see this movie in the theater. Maybe I will see it for 2$ in the cheap theater.

Posted by: kerokan at December 7, 2009 12:09 PM

Fuck that. I enjoyed Terminator Salvation. Quite a lot actually (I didn't have the baggage of having ever watched properly the other Terminators, except some parts when they were shown on TV) As a stand alone movie I think it's good.

He was an ass though for comparing himself to Hitchcock. Blasphemy! Should be hanged just for that.

Posted by: barf at December 7, 2009 2:20 PM

barf, I will agree with you on one thing: as a stand-alone movie, it was highly watchable. I enjoyed the bleakness and the action that came along with it.

However, I could not understand why the hell John Connor was so important. He seemed like such a major douchebag to me. The question I had going in was "Why is John Connor so pivotal to the survival of humanity?" and I kept wondering that when the film was over. Especially when the supposed "terminator" was a much more interesting and complex character than John Connor. Really, it's a lot of wasted potential. That's what makes me so angry.

Posted by: bonnie at December 7, 2009 2:46 PM

However, I could not understand why the hell John Connor was so important. He seemed like such a major douchebag to me.

Posted by: bonnie at December 7, 2009 2:46 PM

Blame the lighting guy

Posted by: Squirrelgripper at December 7, 2009 3:39 PM

Baggage? If you're going to continue a series with established characters, mythos, and canon, then referring to what came before as "baggage" is hardly applicable. Do yourself a favor and properly watch from start to finish the original Terminator and Terminator 2. Then tell me Salvation has any reasonable place in the story.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 7, 2009 4:04 PM

For god's sake Halcyon, just take Joss Whedon up on his offer!

Posted by: Daniel Hall at December 7, 2009 7:02 PM

Now that Cameron's done with Chinese Democracy: THe Movie, maybe he'll come back to the franchise. If only.

Posted by: stryker1121 at December 7, 2009 8:15 PM

I have an idea who should be terminated in the next installment.

Posted by: , at December 7, 2009 8:33 PM

superasente - pure gold, mate, pure gold!!!!

Posted by: Peter G at December 8, 2009 12:18 AM

I thought it was announced before Salvation was even made that McG had a trilogy in mind.

Posted by: ed newman at December 8, 2009 7:24 AM

hey littledeadgirl....
the last time I checked the word retarded didn't mean stupid. it's offensive to people with special needs. isn't that enough to make you stop using it?

Posted by: mike at December 8, 2009 10:56 AM

NO!! I wish somebody powerful would just ask me please "what can we do to (if we want to make another Terminator Movie) what can I as a director do? How will my story be? Listen. Enough!! We don't need anymore surprises, because T3 already surprised us enough!! WE THE FANS KNOW WHAT THE STORY IS!! WE JUST NEED TO SEE IT VISUALLY!! To be honest I already have a plan I can make my own script, and still follow the story! What I would do is this!! (LOL my idea for the T5) The year is 2026. Skynet is developing new and special ways to destroy us. John Conner blew up the computer factory in San Fransisco after encountering the t-800 prototype. Which wasn't at all very important considering the fact that the prototype failed. Kyle Reese has grown up, John Conner's children had grown up. To develop into the most advance tech com unit! Now since we rushed to see the t-600's and the unstoppable t-800, we cannot really show too much of the t-400s. But since t-800 was the prototype, SkyNet has to learn from its mistakes right? So we have learned that Marcus Wright has defeated the t-800. SkyNet needs something of more a human R&D project and to actually gives these cyborgs like a more serious control over them. Kinda like "The Terminator: Dawn of Fate game." Now 2027 hits, we can actually see the more serious development the T-800 (we see how the skynet software for the T-800 was actually intended to travel back in time in T1. example the search and destroy tracker system when in T1 after the club shooting scene, when the Terminator was chasing Kylie and Sarah) That part I got ahead, but humans will be turned into a cyborg type thingy, and they will be simulated on the field by skynet. that when hit or killed they will just turn into liquid. (the future development of the T-1000 and TX) Lol see!! After this is all said and done, we will forget seeing T3 and just continue after T2. (because we were actually forced to continue with more Terminator Movies after the chip and the arm, and Cyberdyne and Dyson were all destoryed, but somehow things would eventually be surfaced and we will see that it relates to the first two films of the Terminator. I would def. at the end have skynet perfect cold fusion in order to have a successful time travel!! I would put Arnold in there as the finalized T-800 prototype (the same as the first Terminator in T1, actually the exact). Robert Patrick as the revived liquid simulated solders (200 cybernetic liquid simulated solders, not exactly terminators) Christian Bale as John Conner the leader of the resistance, Tech-Com, not as a solder though. Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese, being more protected so John Conner can save him to go back to 1984. (sort of like a secret weapon) I want everything to be as though as it was in the first terminator movie. Plus with Reese, in Salvation he was the prime target, so it will fall right into place, we will not alter no future!! I'am not a University of Pittsburgh student with a major in the sciences for nothing!!!

Posted by: Josh at December 16, 2009 8:24 PM

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