WB Acquires TERMINATOR SALVATION
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Source: Variety
Warner Bros has acquired the North American distribution rights for the next Terminator film, newly named TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS, says Variety. The studio plans to release the first film of the new trilogy in the summer of 2009 with production set to begin very shortly from the Halcyon Company. WB had the first rights to negotiate a deal stemming from their distribution of TERMINATOR: RISE OF THE MACHINES in 2003.
Contrary to the AICN rumor of McG being the director, no director has been selected for the fourth film. T3 writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris have turned in a completed and approved script for the franchise's new direction which is said to focus on a character in the resistance against the machines. This character will fight alongside John Connor and Kate Brewster (last played by Nick Stahl and Claire Danes).
"This is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind," says Halcyon Co. CEO Derek Anderson.
Executive producer Moritz Borman says "The third film was really the conclusion of what happened in the 'now.' You will find the most-loved characters, but the intention here is to present a fresh new world and have this be the first of a trilogy."
TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS hits theaters everywhere summer 2009.
