This is exactly what we wanted for Terminator! The new Halloween Reboot WILL IGNORE all movies bar the first two… and have the return of the original leading lady (Jamie Lee Curtis) as Laurie Strode regardless of age. This is a true franchise reprisal/reconnect… hopefully!
Laurie Strode was actually Terminated on screen by Michael in her last outing Halloween: Resurrection… but Terminator’s Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) never died on screen and yet again we reiterate the same idea we have pushed for years that Sarah Connor faked her death (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) but if you ignore all Terminator Sequels after T2; that doesn’t even need an explanation.
The first Terminator movie was very Halloween in its execution replacing the William Shatner-mask-wearing Michael Myers with a Austrian Voiced Cybernetic Assassin… To say that James Cameron’s first proper outing as a director (ignoring Pirahna 2) wasn’t taking some form of inspiration from director John Carpenter’s Halloween would be kind of an understatement.
Women over 40 in Hollywood get the rough end of the deal but the studios are seeing sense and asking Jamie Lee Curtis to return to heal a misguided franchise… TheTerminatorFans.com have no love for Rob Zombie’s outings in the Halloween franchise… thankfully the Halloween franchise never transformed into a PG-13 tent-pole Summer Action Blockbuster format of movie… The Halloween sequels continued but they never quite had the same stature or appeal as the first two outings in the franchise,- which is exactly the same for Terminator.
It is still quite possible that Terminator 6 could continue on from James Cameron’s movies, it has not been ruled out if Linda Hamilton (The Terminator’s original scream queen) will return for what has been described as a torch passing Terminator movie but surely the majority of Halloween fans are going to be excited for this reboot or what we would call a reconnect or requel. Yes, Donald Pleasence is gone now but hopefully they can homage that character in a nice way in this new Halloween.
Sadly this could have been done a long time ago for Terminator and set a trend and started the new wave of Rated R but the franchise totally missed the boat and Genisys was stuck in the trends of yesterday- with the Marvel style Terminator Genisys Super Hero style outing.
Tim Miller screams Marvel but will he give us a Horror Masterpiece- a return to the roots of Terminator with a gritty slasher/science fiction masterpiece or a R Rated CGI comedy infused comic book movie… time will tell but we have made clear what we want to see happen and what we think will make the Terminator franchise great and viable again.
TheTerminatorFans.com have been constructively critical of the Terminator franchise, not out of being difficult for the sole purpose of being difficult but for the greater good and success of the franchise; without lying to our users or pushing propaganda for studios to alter successful outcomes for movies that the majority never wanted.
Deadpool although successful has started the wrong trend in the eyes of Hollywood and we will see many bombs as a result of copying the model of that movie ie. using comedy as a way to level out the violence. It worked for Deadpool because that was the source material but it won’t work for all movies.
Would you like the next Terminator to ignore all movies bar the first two and what tone do you want the movie to take… let us know your thoughts about the Halloween Reboot’s decisions and if you would like those decisions to transition into the Terminator Franchise too.
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I am mighty excited for the new Halloween film. Especially after how horrible those Rob Zombie movies were.
Despite how bad the other sequels were, I still enjoyed each one for what it was attempting to do.
I want to see a proper Terminator 3 made. I want to see Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn on screen again.
Yes, they are much older now but at the end of the day, I don’t think fans really care about that. I personally want to see Michael as Kyle Reese either in the apocalyptic future or present day. If the Connors stopped Judgement Day from happening or “postponed it”, you could have an alternate Kyle Reese that didn’t grow up in the ruins of nuclear disaster. You could show the 55+-year-old Kyle Reese.
It has gotten to the point where these reboots and remakes have all pretty much failed miserably. I honestly don’t care how much time has passed for the actors. I want to see those same actors back in the roles. There really isn’t any new Hollywood talent these days with the new generation. So give me the aged actors that can still bring the emotion and intensity that the fanbase cherishes so much.
Same with the Highlander franchise. It’s been almost 10 years with their reboot/remake talk and nothings happened. Bring back Christopher Lambert in the role that people still applaud him for.
Brad Dourif is still playing Chucky/Charles Lee Ray in the ongoing Child’s Play franchise. He’s much older than he was in the late 80s, yet its still effective and he still delivers the performance that people praise to this day.
Exactly we addressed this in our latest story (older Kyle Reese)
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I love “Halloween” , I watched it over and over as a child (along with “The Terminator”). They’re both for me horror masterpieces. It would be nice to see both reconnected to the original script/tone of fear and darkness. Hell yeah, bring back Jamie Lee Curtis and Linda Hamilton!