Game of Thrones Actress Will Be Sarah Connor in Terminator Reboot

[Tanis]

I'm not feeling it.

I liked the TV series enough, but I really feel like this is another not needed/wanted reboot that's gonna flop.

 

[Toadfish1]

I feel your criticism might be slightly misplaced. I mean, think back to Hamiltons perfrmance in the first one - did it have the same gravitas and compsure as her in T2?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Truthfully the big problem I had with "Terminator" was that the entire concept is supposed to pretty much be that Skynet is losing, and losing badly. We see images of a grim future with a couple of human scouts getting chased down (human scouts which I might add seem to take marksmanship lessons from Imperial Stormtroopers given their inability to hit a slow moving robo-gunship with a vehicle mounted energy cannon) but the basic premise is that the whole point of Skynet sending back a "Terminator" is that it's a desperation gambit being tried in the 11th hour. I could accept the events of the first movie perhaps having delayed the inevitable enough for a second chance, but beyond that there was a point at which you pretty much have to accept that it should be over given the premise. What's more the guys elaborating on the future setting never seemed to really grasp the concept that especially in "Sarah Conner Chronciles" humanity should be portrayed as having the situation pretty much under control, with Skynet and it's forces being the things hiding in the cracks (not humans) trying any desperate gamble to turn the war around as that was the initial premise that held the entire thing together.

Those are just my thoughts though. If I was ever going to reboot the series, not that I think it should be done, I might take some inspiration from other sources about intelligent machines and start raising some questions about whether Skynet was entirely wrong if some kind of mechanical AI genocide was being planned beforehand. Not to mention that if Skynet is putting people into camps as opposed to just killing everyone, perhaps even make the argument that where humans are trying to kill all Machines, Skynet at least plans to let humanity survive and try and re-build it into a species it can cohabitate with... once the war is over. Very old ideas (old long before Mass Effect covered the material) but still something you could do if you really HAD to try and drag this franchise out... which IMO you
really shouldn't do to begin with.

I... never thought of it that way.

DAMMIT You just ruined it for me as well. Ah, it's not like I'm gonna miss anything, if they're going for a reboot that means that they've completely scrapped any chance of continuing on the Terminator 1-4 storyline, so expect an all new timeline with new characters, storylines, plotholes and embarrassing modern references to the internet!

 

[Kittyhawk]

Don't mind a reboot, but this needs a tv series, much more than it does another movie.

Emilia's proved herself in GoT so she should easily knock this out of the park.

 

[Tiamat666]

I think its acceptable to reboot Terminator for one reason.

The first one came out 30 years ago.

I have no problem with them rebooting this franchise as I highly doubt people only a few year younger than myself (age 22) are going to fully enjoy watching the first Terminator. It's pretty dated. Terminator 2 was a technical marvel that still stands today and T3 was garbage. The show was good, but not T2 good and the idea of Terminator becoming a show didn't go too well with people and it came so soon after T3 ruined the franchise's good name.

I agree that the effects in Terminator 1 have become dated, but I don't agree with your premise that that is a good reason to reboot a movie. The movies are...
Actually...
Damn. What do I know? Maybe new Terminator movies -will- rock.

I suppose my negative disposition towards reboots comes out of the fact that way more often than not, reboots are half-arsed attempts at cashing into a franchise that suck. But this does not always have to be the case. I always hated Batman because the movies were way too funky and flashy for my taste. Then came the reboot of Batman with Christian Bale and all of a sudden Batman was awesome.
But the original Terminator movies are so good, especially Terminator 2 -which may arguably deserve the title of greatest action movie of all time- that I find it hard to see how they can improve upon that (except adding more CGI, which does not necessarily have to be an improvement). And when the bar is set so high, the most likely outcome is to trip and crash, which may cheapen the franchise as a whole.

 

[EHKOS]

Wait... they're rebooting Terminator?

Why?!

He blue screened.

OT: In the words of Family Guy:
Peter"I don't understand...
Christian Bale"What don't you get about it!"
Peter "I just...I don't get why we need another Terminator..."

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I don't know why Hollywood wants to keep rebooting Schwarzenegger's movies. They did Total Recall and it was a terrible mistake trying to replace Schwarzenegger with Colin Farrell. Why don't they try writing a completely different movie or a sequel? There are so many ways they could go with the series especially in the future where terminators are running rampant over humanity or having an alternate reality where John Connor was killed by the terminator and someone else creates 'the resistance' or... you know like a billion other things they could do other than recasting a great movie and turning it into gold-plated shit.

 

[Madman123456]

Is there still a place for me with the people who care little about who exactly will portrait this character but rather about another franchise reboot?
Hello fellas, we may have to squeeze together a bit to make more room =)

In the good old days, if you wanted to steal ideas you made up a new title and made things slightly different.
Eighties movies could be rather obnoxious with that. Here's a setup: Sportsteam consists of losers and is set to compete with well trained and well outfitted winner team which invariably has smug assholes in it.
You have seen that movie a few times i bet.
Or maybe you'd rather watch a movie where the police chief has to take a cop off the case or something.

But if you have to milk a big name, how about explaining what happened after the "end".
Would be kinda difficult with "Terminator" since the end (for me at least) was the end of movie 2 in which the story ended with "you make your own destiny and they made theirs so that the terminators never show up.".
And then the third movie came and said "psych! Destiny is coming for you no matter what! So you may as well sit back and enjoy more explosions! Look, here's another 'splosion that took us days to render!"...
Terminator's story ended with movie 2 and everything else is just window dressing. The Chronicles might be pretty window dressing but window dressing nonetheless.

Since i established how i think it'll be difficult to make follow ups to the terminator franchise since it was supposed to end with the terminators being erased from time i'm trying to think of other franchises where there a story could be told that happens after the end instead of re-telling the same story.
"Star trek" would be kinda weird since the last canonical thing that happened was "Voyager" returning home with loads of data. In the last episode alone they had weapons and armor with which they could piss away any credible threat.
They could fly back, take over borg space, fly back farther and paint all the kazon ships pink just to annoy them.
Reprogram the borg hive mind to sing christmas carols all the time on the way back home.
Borg voice: "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, jingle all the waaay..."
Fly over to the Dominion and force them to alternate the genetical make up of their Jem'hadarr soldiers to have them all have a Trollface. "For the Glory of the Founders! Trollololol!"

I dunno, resurrect "Space and beyond" or maybe even "Starship troopers". I'd take a new story about the motivation of the bugs there over a retold story of killer robots.
When you're done with the starship trooper's uniforms, why not recycle them for a "Firefly" story again.
Would be kinda difficult to get the old crew together and explain how they aged a bit all of a sudden but i wanna see how the big secret revealed in "Serenity" affected the universe.
Will there be alliance people appalled by the things their government did? Will that government be toppled?
I want to see the story of someone who tries to do his part to solve things peacefully.
An Alliance version of captain Picard who can understand the motivations of the former browncoats and despises some things the alliances did in the name of "order".
I'll take that over a retold terminator story anyday.