Amph Come with me if you want to live: The Terminator Thread

The “Terminator” franchise is coming to Netflix with a new anime series created by Japanese animation studio Production IG (“Ghost in the Shell”) and produced by Skydance.


Announced as part of their Geeked Week promotional cycle, complete with logo trailer, the show will follow brand new characters in this world.

2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines.

1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity.
She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity.

As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.

Matt Tomlin serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer. Masashi Kudo directs what marks the first animated project for the franchise.

 

Logo teasers aren't anything new. It's actually not even new for this franchise.

 

Terminator Zero animated series will debut on Netflix on August 29th (well done, Netflix!). Apparently it is about a solider sent back to Japan in 1997 to protect a scientist that is creating an AI to compete with Skynet.

Tomlin tells EW that the show treats all the past films as canon, saying: “We’re not going to pretend that the third movie didn’t happen. We’re not going to pretend that the sixth movie didn’t happen.”

He also indicates plans to move away from the “muscular sci-fi action” of the latter films and embraced the horror elements of the Cameron movies.
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Looove the look we're getting in those images.

 

Surprisingly well-done, as far as these type of things go:

 

Happy Judgment Day for those who celebrate!

 

Looks like Cameron's reboot will be going pretty far.

As a result, Cameron says he’s confident in the franchise’s future because what comes next will require a ground-up reboot. He tells Empire:

“It’s more than a plan, that’s what we’re doing. That’s all I’ll say for right now. This is the moment when you jettison everything that is specific to the last 40 years of Terminator, but you live by those principles.​

It also means moving away from the characters and lore of the prior films and going on all new tangents whilst keeping it thematically true:

You get too inside it, and then you lose a new audience because the new audience care much less about that stuff than you think they do. That’s the danger, obviously, with Avatar as well, but I think we’ve proven that we have something for new audiences.”​

So what do you keep? Only the most basic elements:

“You’ve got powerless main characters, essentially, fighting for their lives, who get no support from existing power structures, and have to circumvent them but somehow maintain a moral compass. And then you throw AI into the mix. Those principles are sound principles for storytelling today, right?

So I have no doubt that subsequent Terminator films will not only be possible, but they’ll kick ass. But this is the moment where you jettison all the specific iconography.”​

Cameron also reacted to those who cringe at the dialogue in his films saying: “I don’t cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write. You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films – then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness.”

He says looking back at “The Terminator” these days he does find parts of it “that are pretty cringeworthy” but that is over the production value, though he says: “we did pretty well for the resources we had available”.​

 

I would suspect Cameron is looking deeper than that, given that they shot some of that film guerilla. Though I'm sure the handful of FX that don't pass the test are also grouped in.

 

Who wants some T2 Contra? Hell yeah!

 

If you can't unlock the trunks as a cosmetic, what are they even doing?

 

Though game-related, I think it's worth sharing this since it's pretty sweet seeing some of these new moves given to the T-1000. And they even included the use of the third arm, which is a detail so often overlooked from the film.

(ultra-violence warning, of course)