Terminator Salvation director, McG, is still ready to unleash a true Director’s Cut for the fourth installment in the Terminator franchise, which he says is darker than the previously released versions.
While promoting his new movie The Babysitter: Killer Queen, McG told CBR that:
It’s interesting because I feel like we did so much right with Terminator but, ultimately, got just enough wrong that we got beat up a little bit by the fanbase, and it really, really broke my heart. And now, strangely, I think the film has started to age better. And there is a different cut; I have my own cut of that film and there’s people online that talk about wanting to see that cut. And that’s interesting!
McG told CBR
But I think I got a lot of things right with that. Obviously, I think [uncredited screenwriter] Jonah Nolan is a very, very serious writer and he did the best he could. And Christian [Bale] is maybe the most talented actor working today and Sam [Worthington] did a really good job also. I think I’ve got to take the punch on that one for not quite nailing the landing on the final expression of that movie, and who knows, maybe the cut that I have of that movie hidden away is the answer. It’s darker! [Laughs] I don’t know, that’s for the fans to say.
We know that Terminator Salvation had the best intentions and began life as a Rated R movie which is, funnily enough, the reverse of Terminator: Dark Fate which began life as a PG-13 movie and switched to Rated R with reshoots and CGI later down the line.
Following the release of Dark Fate there have been a number of fans expressing interest in continuing the Terminator Salvation timeline again, but as always, the fanbase is fractured and the same could be said for all the movies which failed to spawn their intended / planned sequels / trilogies (Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate).
Terminator Salvation took a number of missteps but it had potential, and has been applauded by many fans for attempting to move the franchise in a different direction.
If Warner Brothers and Sony want to team up with McG to give us a new home release – we would definitely check it out, and we hope it would elevate the movie, as we have no qualms with saying the original Director’s Cut for Terminator Salvation was extremely underwhelming, as it only added mere minutes of footage that honestly didn’t really bring anything new.
Like many fans, we have always called for Director’s Cuts to T3 and Salvation (to help heal any disappointment) but the studios were previously never interested, but now, due to the pandemic, studios are reevaluating alternate cuts as an alternative revenue stream – so maybe now is the right time for this to happen.
We doubt #ReleasetheMcGCut will reach the dizzying heights of #ReleaseTheSnyderCut but a “Project Angel” home release edition would be very welcome.
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