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**Flashman**

Oh for God's sake

Empire wrote:Like the titular murderous cyborg, the Terminator franchise has been through the wringer but just keeps coming. And now there is a big development with the announcement that Arnold Schwarzenegger is aiming to return to the character that kicked his career into hyperdrive with a brand new outing.

According to Deadline, the only parts of the package that exist right now are a deal to develop a new film with Schwarzenegger attached to star and Jumanji/Against the Ropes producer Robert Cort shepherding the project. It’s being offered around to all the studios and given Arnie’s inclusion, it’s not hard to imagine that one of the companies could leap on this like a hungry dog.

There’s likely to be especially strong competition from Universal and Sony/Lionsgate, with the latter pair particularly interested since they were beaten to the rights at the last auction by Pacificor, a hedge fund company that won them back in 2010 with a bid of $29.5 million.

But Universal has also apparently been trying to manipulate the new movie, aiming to put Fast Five director Justin Lin in place to get the tale of man vs. machine moving again.

Agency powerhouse CAA is pimping the new deal and everyone is aware that the rights have a built-in expiry date: in 2018, all the US rights to the characters revert to James Cameron, which might explain why there’s now a renewed interest in getting movies made before the creator of the Terminator universe can shut anything down.

So while Arnie has plenty of new projects bubbling away, including his planned Governator cartoon and rumoured links to Ji-Woon Kim’s Last Stand and Antoine Fuqua’s The Tomb, it could be one of his old roles that kicks off his post-government return to acting.

But with a hefty price tag, it remains to be seen if Skynet’s story will be continued… Or even rebooted. If it goes ahead, do you think they’ll opt for Schwarzenegger as he looks now, and put out a T-800 with killer wrinkle action? Or use CG-trickery a la Terminator Salvation to age him back to his glory days? Sound off!

**Ratius**

They cannot butcher the series anymore then they already have so meh. I'll be watching it for its comedic value.

**sexiest_hero**

NOT LION"S GATE. GOD NOOOOOOOO.

**Prawnkus**

Is it that hard to come up with original ideas?

**sexiest_hero**

Yes when you need money for a movie. Nobody likes to take chances with their money.

**Cybronx**

The problem with returning franchises is that they're always held to such high expectations, and people are somehow surprised/dissapointed when they don't deliver.

**micahaphone**

As long as it's better than number four....

aka MORE EXPLOSIONS AND COOL ROBOTS, PLEASE.
We really don't care about the humans, we just want to see some terminators survive just about everything that gets thrown at them.

**KingCracker**

Oh dear god. In the 3rd one they were really stretching how believable he was/looked. Im curious how much cash they are offering ol Arny

**Grimtuff**

He'll be back!

**daedalus-templarius**

Man, screw getting old.

If Arny can't stay in shape, what hope is there for any of us?

I'll go see it, regardless of its awfulness.

**MegaDave**

I don't understand why they need him in it. All we need is the war part of the movie made to tie up the first two. Show the resistance smashing skynet's defenses, and CGI kyle reese in going through the time displacement field. Wraps up the whole continuity thing, as gives us an awesome war movie with lasers and robots.

Problems solved.

**micahaphone**

MegaDave wrote:I don't understand why they need him in it. All we need is the war part of the movie made to tie up the first two. Show the resistance smashing skynet's defenses, and CGI kyle reese in going through the time displacement field. Wraps up the whole continuity thing, as gives us an awesome war movie with lasers and robots.

Problems solved.

Yeah, but what about the annoying backstory, or the random deaf child to keep the story stagnating? We need those.

**Warlord Gazghkull Thraka**

Grimtuff wrote:He'll be back!

Nothing a little CGI can't take care of according to directors now-a-days...

**Emperors Faithful**

Wow, with this right on top of the 'Osama dead' thread I was really scared for a second.

**Slarg232**

Emperors Faithful wrote:Wow, with this right on top of the 'Osama dead' thread I was really scared for a second.

I read it like that too.

**KingCracker**

Grimtuff wrote:He'll be back!

The first failed attempt at the T1000