Schwarzenegger has divulged information about Terminator 6 while promoting his new movie “Killing Gunther” and has revealed information about the T-800 Terminator he will play in the movie…
Schwarzenegger told Business Insider UK:
Tim [Miller] came up with a concept where they can continue on with the T-800, but make the movie a whole new movie. I think the character was stuck in the future and was more like an ordinary guy who suddenly gets activated again.
The learning computer is back again… the aging Terminator in Terminator 6,- according to Arnold, will be like an “Ordinary Guy”.
This concept does not excite us in the slightest and (to us) is totally unwanted. We and many other fans just want Arnold to go back to basics and represent the character the way he did in the first Terminator but here we go again with a new spin and a director wanting to put his own mark on things.
Unless the studios do a quick u-turn on the concept; we fear that Schwarzenegger might end up being the reason Terminator 6 could be a point of criticism by a wider audience once again. Saying he is “like an ordinary guy” is lining up a humanized T-800 AGAIN. What is Miller’s concept? The family dynamic of Grandpa (Schwarzenegger) and Grandma (Linda Hamilton)? Why has lugnuts been left to age in the future and learn from resistance fighters? A resistance fighting T-800 with a sense of humor and human behavior/traits/idiosyncrasies?
Torch passing; sounds like hero protector T-800 who acts like a human- nonsense.
The news of Terminator 6 has been good of late but there’s always some tidbits of news like this to make you feel a burgeoning sense of anxiety about the thing even entering production.
Fair enough hire the Deadpool director but if he approaches Terminator with Deadpool ethics/film-making style,- don’t expect us to welcome it. On first watching Deadpool it made all the right noises for the new wave of Rated R but on repeat watching it’s just a movie full of sex scenes that simply seem to exist in order to justify the R rating and an excess of CGI to glue it all together- experimental sex does not a relationship define and practical effects would have had more class and depth.
We hope Miller can pull his concept off and surprise us but at this point without more information this concept sounds like… a hot bag of excrement. Perhaps you might deem that a little strong but every time the fans have been promised a return to the roots, a “renaissance” if you will, it has been swiftly and succinctly followed but the sharp disappointment of another underwhelming return to the mediocrity which has sadly been the experience of the later incarnations of a once beloved franchise.
We live in hope, don’t we? That we are being heard, that our hopes and wishes have a louder voice than those of the investors and businessmen and bankers and big-wigs; the people who hold the purse strings of a franchise which once aroused the imaginations of audiences the world over and inspired future film-makers to aspire to make movies like T1 and T2. With every new false promise and empty commitment comes another fresh disappointment and quite frankly- fatigue.
Dear Mr. Miller,
This isn’t your movie. It belongs to the FANS. Please try to remember that.
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UPDATE: Business Insider UK made another post days later attributing half of the initial quote to Terminator Genisys- Read our follow up report by clicking here