Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off 256
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"For sale: One slightly-used Terminator. Still works, minor attitude problems, get it cheap now!' Several sources are reporting that the Terminator franchise is set to be auctioned off just three weeks after another well known franchise, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was sold for $60 million. The present owner, Halcyon, has filed for chapter 11 after a dispute with a hedge fund that lent Halcyon the money to buy the rights to begin with. The auction will include rights to everything but the first two films.
Sarah Conner Chronicles (Score:5, Insightful)
Was about the only good thing from the Terminator Franchise int he last 10 years.....
And that is Sad....
Re:First two films excluded... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: sellaband? (Score:2, Insightful)
Great. (Score:3, Insightful)
They, um, terminated the excellent Sarah Connor Chronicles to make way for that Transforminators piece of shit. And then they showed they can't even handle that. Way to go, guys.
Re:First two films excluded... (Score:4, Insightful)
I thought the first series was great. Summer Glau was a nice bonus of course. Second series got a bit slow in the middle, but it was picking up again towards the end.
I hope whoever buys up the rights continues TTSCC..
Re:Everything but the first two films? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: sellaband? (Score:3, Insightful)
PE is trying to raise a quarter of a million dollars, which is probably a reasonable goal for a band with their name recognition, and will be enough to produce an album. Raising a thousand or ten thousand times as much, a couple hundred bucks at a time, just for the rights to make a movie or a TV show? It's a nice idea, but I don't think it's likely to happen.
And even if it did happen, what would we do with it? There'd still need to be a guiding force, someone running the project. Good luck getting all the fans who chip in to agree on that.
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reboot (Score:3, Insightful)
Always a catch (Score:3, Insightful)
The auction will include rights to everything but the first two films.
Well then it's no good.
Re:First two films excluded... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not shown at the end of the second film, but it is explained right at the start of the first film if you pay attention.
It clearly says that the final battle would be fought here...tonight.
Now, if Skynet had killed Connor retroactively, that would have been the final battle of humans, but that didn't happen, so that's not what it was talking about.
No, Skynet only sends the terminator back because it lost. Human burst in, and it fired up the experimental time machine and it sends two terminators back. One to 1984 and one to 1995. (If you think about which was sent where, and what Skynet had to have know about each time, you'll realize it makes sense. Remember the first one managed to kill two Sarah Connors.)
The humans quickly send Reese back, and then they quickly reprogram the other Arnold that's laying around and send him back too.
Perhaps this was two different battles, or two different facilities, but anyway, the point is, the time machines were, essentially, the last stand before Skynet was defeated. (Logically, you don't want to let your enemies have access to your time machines, so they'd be almost as well protected as yourself.)
I suspect that Skynet figured out altering the past was just as big a threat to it as anything else, hence the time machine being used only when it about to be defeated.
If you're wondering about T3, that actually took place in a different future, after T2 moved judgment day. (Which means that Skynet was right about time travel being a threat to it, as the Skynet from the first two movies is essentially dead, or rather never existed.)