Deadline.com reported:

"Megan Ellison has won an auction for the rights to make at least two more installments of The Terminator franchise, with Fast Five's Justin Lin attached to direct and Arnold Schwarzenegger attached to star."



She will be producing Terminator 5 and her movie company is called Annapurna Pictures.

http://www.annapurnapics.com/

Maybe the experience will be better than the gayzation thing (If we can say that, Gayzation is horrible, just horrible), what in my mind I find it stupidity, I will not pay to watch a Terminator folm without film, that's my position as a fan, and I still think in my opinium, it should be done by Jin cameron, pay the money he wants, and give to the man the rights back, give the man his money, he deserves, he is the owner, and for me this little Japa Guy will continuing fucking with all, say no for it, be reasanable, and say No to the fuckers, i don't believe on it, at all...

All we can do is hope Mr Visconti.

Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures appears to choose scripts and projects with heart; which was proven with "True Grit" (which was nominated for a fair amount of awards) starring Jeff Bridges. Justin Lin (I hate his face) works with action movies,- could the two different motivations result in a Terminator movie with both heart and mindless violence? If it had been Universal or even Sony, with the addition of Mr. Lin- I would have been adamantly against the project but... Annapurna is an indie movie company and it could give Hollywood's idea of Terminator a hefty kick up the arse with a different perspective and smaller budget. To me the budget is an issue with Terminator; ever since T3 it has been massive budgets and chubby little men with sausage fingers grubbily violating a beloved franchise with a total disregard for quality. With a smaller budget and more open-minded, hungry cast, crew and investors we could get a surprise from the little company that could

I am open to the idea of Annapurna having a shot at this! After all Sony/Warner with Halcyon/C-2 Pictures was a complete failure if we are really honest with ourselves.

They went for money and not heart. Missing the point in the frenzy of trying to cash in that if they gave fans a great product they would throw money at it forever.

Good luck Annapurna and Miss Ellison.

The latest news says that "Megan Ellison", is that her name? Well, the latest news says that she is almost pqaying any money swarzennegr wants to play his role again inthetars, the beloved T-800, well, it's the must importnat thing to the saga, it's this what we really want, I SAID NO, NO more bullshiets, Swarzzeneger is the T-800, ok, but there is so many muscle guys around the world, I'm sure Jin will find a way to substitute the guy (The special effect can be replaced), in my opinniun, James Cameron should be to consider in get the millions she is offering, she should paying to jin Cameron the amount of money he wants, and desreves to do a new film (or two) about Terminators, yes, again, i repeat, Swarzie is a special effectt, and he can be changed by a Bunch of T-800 endoskeletons, in T1 we have an entire sequence with an infiltrator unit (made by a friend of Swarzie, A Champion of bodybuilding of Arnols, and italian guy, I can't remember his name, and he was in Conam Also) heis so much shorter and smaller than Arnold, but strong in muscles either, and he had made a brilliant sequence, shooting everyone, he facejust apperas for a second, and than, BLooom, he fire at all, and we can only seen his Red glowing eyes, and what infiltrator, scared me to death, I repeat, with Jin Cameron on it, we don't need Swarzenneger (he is just a detail), So let's be smart, and ask for the return of Jin Cameron.
I think we should write for Megan Ellison and demand that she make a contract with james CAmeron, forgot Swarzie, he fucked up already, saying yes to T3, wake up guys, lets be honeste with ourselves true fans, we want Swarzenneger back or James CAmeron, let's be reasonable, let's be true with ourselves, let's ask for the retunr of Jin Camerom, Mrs. Megan Ellison, fuck the Governator, and pay the money James Cameron wants, for Christ safe.
MAke a contract with him, you will earn so much more, it's our duty as fans, let's honour the good memory we have from the original Terminator movies, see you guys, and think about we start a movemnent on the NET, Bring Back James CAmeron...

Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum.
I see you're (well...were) discussing about the new owner of the rights (Megan Ellison) and I'd like to say here what I think about, and expose you an idea I have
I'm a Terminator fan by many many years: I couldn't tell you how many times I re-watched T2, (for sure, more than 50), and I waited for the third movie for many years. Contrarily to many other people, I liked it, but for the story, especially the reading Mostow gave to the timetravel.
Although I couldn't say the same about the fourth movie (the first part is good, and I think Marcus is a very well done character, but ASA Connor appears the movie is ruined), I became an huge fan of the TV show The Sarah Connor Chronicles, that I decided to watch only less than two years ago, wrongly expecting a lo-quality "Terminator of the week" show without a plot.
Now, since I'm reading by months some news about the franchise, and since I know who bought the rights (including her good intentions and quality about her precedent works), I have a good hope in the result. But I also know that they don't have a script yet, so I had this idea (that doesn't seem to be so original)...
They could never use the show as the base for the 5th movie, since not every potential viewer (of the new movie) knows it, but they could do the contrary: T5 could be some kind of prequel to the show. (Spoilers ahead) The idea was to write a plot continuing by the end of the third movie (T4 is in T1's timeline, so it is ignored), telling us John's story (with Kate, that should then die, maybe in an accident, making John sad and lonely), the beginning of the resistance up to the jump back of Cameron, partially answering some of the (many) unanswered questions of the show and introducing its new characters. Then the movie should go on with these characters and part of the story the writers imagined for the show and never used.
Of course, this should involve Josh Friedman (and potentially all his original co-writers) to write the plot, but, being a prequel, everyone would be able to watch it (this should then bring interest in the show to many more fans).
This is the only way I could figure to merge the stories and give people like me the possibility to have more about the show. (obviously the idea is then that people should watch the show to have T6 as its continuation/closure)
This should be an advantage for many:
- would give everyone of us a good plot;
- would quickly give Megan Ellison a plot, since I figure Friedman could write it in few time, and since I know she doesn't have a plot;
- would bring more money to WB (that must be involved, since they have the rights about show's story and characters);
- would give TSCC fans (like me) more, and, much more important, more from the original writers (potentially with the original cast).
I know you could have a different view and expectancies by the movies, but when I watch a movie I more care the the plot than the action: T2 is for me a great Sci-Fi story, not an action movie (there are plenty of action movies to watch). Actually, the whole Terminator franchise is a pseudo-Sci-Fi story, since James Cameron set it to be, if not plausible, absolutely not technically impossible. I loved his interview about the write protection removal on the chip and its consequences on the evolution of the T-800 (why did they remove that scene in the original version?), and this is the kind of things I would see on T5.
I don't know if you could like my idea, I don't even know how many of you consider the show (I've been the first who didn't want to watch it for a long time)... so I don't know if I'm writing something of interesting for you, or if I'm annoying you, but I would really like to see more about the show, and I want a great T5 (I was going to write this in the TSCC section of the forum, but this one seems more coherent, since it's about T5 and its story).
I hope to have been useful.

P.S. Sorry for my bad English too.

Well, I consider the show, but I think can live without the films, think about... Sarah connor Chronicles it's another timeline, for the movie, I want jin Cameron back, with one last battle against the machine3s, the destruction of the SKYNET Pyramid, all the resistence united agaisnt the machines, The Future Jin cameron always intended to be, without Swarzie, and a lot of "Frank Columbus", the italian guy I mentioned before, there is so many bodybuilders today, inspired by swarzie, a bunch of machines... An army of Endos, that's all i WANT TO SAY...
They Fucked so much with stupid plots, so uit ends, in a final and explosive big confrontation, just like save private Ryan, with plasma laser and Hunter killers all over the place... I have one thing to say to you Magan Ellison... MAKE IT WORTH...,

P.S. About the war on future, always it made me to think about create a micro series, just like the Starship troopers 3D series, George Luccas is doing that too, in the Clone Wars, Terminator deserves this kind of respect, No more McG... No more stupidity... There is so much to tell in that wonderfull Universe created by Jin, and they insists on the ignorance... It make me really angry, Hellwood..

I know, but to have a new timeline, you need something to generate it. My idea was to continue in T3's timeline, show the origins of the resistance AND the first years of Skynet's evolution.
Then some events (full of action and special effects, but also of plot, since it's this what I care the more!) should bring up to a jump back that should generate the change and the nth timeline.
Maybe (well... for sure) it's because the show changed my view of the franchise, maybe it's because I've always been more interested in events, characters and the Sci-Fi part than to the action (that's why I consider T2 a masterwork and T1 "only" a must see), but I've thought too much about, and I figured also a way to merge all (I could write it, but it would be OT here. Open a new thread, if you want). Obviously a way that should be for everyone, since very few know the show compared to the potential viewers of the upcoming movie(s).
I do agree that the new movies should contain more action than the show, I was simply suggesting what I consider as a way to have more, and everyone could consider as a way to have a good plot.
I don't know you, but I'd have never rewatched T2 so many times if it was only action and special effects. When I firstly watched T2 it made me think too much (for months)... and for sure not about the fights.
T2 has an advantage over many other movies: it's 136' long (where the average is about 100'), and I would like the new movies to be 2.5h each, to have all the time to combine a great story to the impressive scenes everyone would see in it. The length is probably the worst problem in T3 (it's too short, and the truck scene is too long compared to the story).



I used to consider James Cameron a great director, and he made some excellent movies... but he openly said he doesn't care the Terminator franchise anymore, and, IMO, T2 is his last movie that worts to be remembered.
He made many money copying Miyazaki's style, and he likes his new career, so why should we force him to do something he doesn't want to do? He's in the position to chose what to do.


That would be the end of the franchise, don't you think?


Call me misanthropic, but "all the resistance united" is not something I could consider realistic. Not even in t4 it is united.


Of course, the movie MUST contain all of this: that's why I want it to be LONG, to have plot and action. One thing shouldn't exclude the other one!


Sorry, I'm not understanding you


I think we're in good hands.