Terminator back for a new trilogy

[KiwiCoromandel]

The Terminator is coming back. A nascent film company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular movie series, intending to make a new trilogy.

The deal with producers Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna is said to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

The Halcyon Co – a privately financed firm – plans to begin immediate preproduction on Terminator 4, with hopes that it will be ready for release in the first half of 2009.

The script, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, was part of the transaction. No distributor is on board, or any talent.

Halcyon – headed by advertising veteran Derek Anderson and Cook-Off! producer Victor Kubicek – pursued the Terminator rights aggressively for several months, knowing that the series is one of the few recognizable properties out there not in the hands of a major studio.

Halcyon also is concentrating on a merchandising and licensing push for the property.

The rights to Terminator have changed hands several times.

Kassar acted as an executive producer for 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment day, and he and Vajna acquired interests from Gale Anne Hurd – who produced the first one in 1984 and executive produced the second – when the duo made 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

source:Reuters

image:Reuters:I'M BACK...A second Terminator trilogy is in the works, with the first film planned for release in 2009.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

All I gotta say is that they better be good.

[DudeAsInCool]

All I gotta say is that they better be good.

The writers are decent, but how can there be a Terminator without Jim Cameron?

[method77]

New trilogy? The last one was 2 movies

[Shawn]

There were three. Or did you mean one of them was so bad you don't count it?

[Tiremonkey2000]

The fourth movie centers on John Conner after the Nukes fall.

[method77]

There were three. Or did you mean one of them was so bad you don't count it?

damn, you're right. I remembered how awful it was

[bear]

The Terminator ride at Universal was pretty cool.