McG Talks more Terminator Sequel Details
A few weeks ago we ran a post about McG talking about the future of the Terminator franchise and sequel to this summers yet to be released, Terminator Salvation.
At WonderCon San Francisco, McG offered some thoughts on the sequel and even touched on the involvement of Robert Patrick playing a scientist who invests research into stem cell and the idea of cellular reproduction keeping us young and how his research would lead to the machines building the T-1000 model and it being model after the young Patrick from Terminator 2.
Here is the original statement we posted a few weeks ago:
“I like the idea in a prospective next picture that you meet Robert Patrick the way he looks today, and he’s a scientist that’s working on improving cell replication so we can stay healthier and we can cure juvenile diabetes and all these things that once again sound like good ideas — and once again live as an idealized expression of ourselves. So imagine seeing a sixty-year-old Robert Patrick and knowing, ‘Holy shit! That’s gonna be the T-1000 – who comes back perfect, lean and the whole thing.”
Now McG is offering newer details about Terminator 5, Patrick’s character and time travel. He spoke to Film Journal revealing some interesting tidbits about a sequel to Terminator Salvation, including that the second film might take place before Judgment Day as well.
“I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be fucking awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who famously played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.”
I have supported McG from the get go and think he is the perfect person to continue the Terminator franchise. Salvation looks awesome and his thoughts on the sequel to this summer’s film is also something I applaud. McG has done so well to keep continuity within the franchise by bringing in the older/original actors to pass the torch but to creatively bridge the older films with the newer ones and the way the timelines work the bridging is a lot easier. McG’s attention to the old fans and keeping them in mind while making the next installments completely original in their own right.
