Terminator Fan; Bruce Stirling John Knox, AKA BSJK- like most hardcore fans (including us) didn’t enjoy the last few installments of Terminator…
“I was not pleased with the last few Terminator films,” Knox told the Herald. “But instead of complaining, I did it better.”
Knox created a pitch which he wants to be considered as a feature movie or an animated Netflix series and wants to reach out to James Cameron and current movie rights owners Skydance and Paramount. The pitch took him 18 months to complete.
The animation itself is pretty solid and is set in 2047, taking us beyond 2029 and the war fans are familiar with. The art style reminds us of the work of Terminator concept artist Victor Martinez who worked on Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys.
The project also is devoid of Mr. Schwarzenegger, which is not really an issue with us anymore after we have stated numerous times that Schwarzenegger doesn’t seem to take the role seriously anymore and is stuck in the mode of selling T-Shirts and PG-13 nonsense. We hear, on a regular basis, from fans who are tired of Arnold using the franchise as a marketing vehicle. On the other hand some Arnold fans will find the idea of Arnold not being in it the basis to tear people a new asshole. Arnold has only played ‘THE TERMINATOR’ in one movie and we are sick to the back teeth of a cringe-worthy, one-liner-spewing; good guy Terminator!
We have made it very clear what we would like the next Terminator to be and that is a present day movie (yes, another one) the main reason is to keep the budget down so we can have a theatrical movie that is Rated R (big budgets seem to necessitate PG-13 ratings from investors) starring the woman who made us believe in the Terminator story in the first place; Linda Hamilton AKA The REAL Sarah Connor and her son John Connor. Hollywood might be sexist and ageist but we are certainly not. We also feel we need to reconnect with Jim Cameron’s timeline for integrity as none of the sequels or reboots ever felt genuine to the first two Terminator movies, they are the most successful, the most beloved and are widely considered by most fans to be the only two real Terminator movies.
BSJK’s project could make an interesting R Rated animated Netflix series which we could happily support but some little details like machines eating humans do put us off slightly. It also feels like a leap too far ahead for the franchise, in which we are flitting backwards and forwards on new timelines, for this to be a full feature live-action movie and it would technically be another reboot in disguise. We fans have never had a full feature film deal with 2029 so jumping to 2047 feels like something that should come from the franchise later down the line (when the original cast are no longer acting) and especially when CGI has matured more.
There is also a good reason we have never had an animated Terminator project so far and also a reason why Terminator 3000 never got made, it is because there are legal issues preventing it from being so and Paramount and Skydance, as far as we are aware, only have the rights to make live-action movies…
Source: nzherald