Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in new Terminator movie
By Peter SmithApril 27th, 2011, 7:30 pmComments (11)
Unlike your grandfather, sixty-four-year-old retiring Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will soon be starring in a new film in the long-running and highly profitable Terminator franchise, assuming the backers can work out some pesky rights issues. Reasons to be concerned:
1. Arnold's presence is no guarantee of quality — Terminator 3 was pretty not-good.
2. James Cameron has nothing to do with it. Say what you will about Avatar, but the man maintains at least a certain crazed intensity. His movies are sometimes pretty dumb, but they always end up being events in a way that the average summer blockbuster never will.
3. Speaking of which, this thing would in theory be directed by Fast Five director Justin Lin. Coincidentally, it'd be the fifth Terminator film. How many times has the fifth anything been good?
4. By the way, Arnold looks like this now.
Regardless, we'll always have The Terminator, which is still a really tight and scary action movie, as well as Terminator 2, which seems pretty hilariously '90s now (Kid with rat-tail to kid with mushroom haircut: "Some cop's scopin' for you!"), but is still fun, despite or perhaps because of same. More on this as it develops, I'm afraid.
Commentarium (11 Comments)
Terminator the first is better than Terminator 2. You can take that shit to the bank.
I think it will be cool to see the Terminator roll up to the scene of the action in a 22nd century wheelchair. I bet that thing can go supersonic.
Time to give up guys
Arnold doesn't look like that most of the time. That was immediatly post-surgery.
Where's the setting of this film to be? John Connor's retirement home? Arnie has to look like the inhabitants to fit in? AI Search & Kill Robot From The Future going to be disguised as the I-wash-your-ass-after-you-shit nurse?
Goddamnit. Why do people insist on destroying everything that I love. The fourth movie was pretty okay, I guess. The TV series blows the third and fourth movies out of the water though.
Yeah. Arnold is the least important person in Terminator. Sarah Connor is what we need!
We don't need another Terminator movie. We need Kindergarten Cop 2!
I Totally agree with you Moops Sarah Connor that's what the movie need
I just hope AS will soon realize that it's time for another P.K. Dick adaptation.
Arnold is the terminator, and the best at it!!!! I think it is time to reunite the actress who played sarah connor in the first two movies to return. The third movie was okay, but remember sarah 's body was not found at the grave site!! Nice move by the writer, this way she can return. I am a fan, I hope Arnold Schwarzenegger does one more " I'll be back"
Now you say something