I have just read the news that Warner Bros now have the rights to the Terminator series. They are planning not only a third sequel, but also Terminator 5 and 6 as well!!! Slightly more worrying is the idea that Vin Diesel will be cast in the lead role (as the Terminator?) I know that Arnie is getting a little old and is busy sorting out Dubya nowadays, but I’m not sure Vin Diesel is the guy for the job.

Another thing that is slightly confusing - these new films are to be a “re-invention” of the franchise. As Empire points out “James Cameron’s films were incredible and, aside from a couple of dated effects shots, look just as good today.” Maybe the re-invention will come from allowing more humanoid robots, as the shots of the robo-human war from the original Terminator films showed most of the ‘bots looking like metal skeletons rather than the Muscles from Brussels. More humans means more actors, which means (possibly) more names and more bums on seats. Cynical? Maybe, but I thought this series was finished already. I think the hunger for robots after Transformers is there, and certainly CGI is more than capable, so a fully metallic army would be much more impressive.

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