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Old 01-14-10, 11:43 AM
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Joss Whedon and the Terminator franchise belong together. Precious and oh-so-important to about 0.00001% of the population, while the rest of the world couldn't give a sloppy wet assblast to either.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

How about they just give it back to the guy that made it and give him boat loads of cash and see what he could do with it? AKA James Cameron
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

I say give it back to Cameron and he just lets the series die like it should.

T3 & T4 added what exactly? Considering the franchise got to this point, those movies must not have done much.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
How about they just give it back to the guy that made it and give him boat loads of cash and see what he could do with it? AKA James Cameron
Because James Cameron told the stories he wanted to tell within that franchise. I also think it's safe to assume that after two (un)successful sequels, he doesn't want any more involvement with the franchise.

Don't blame him, especially when Avatar is making him (and Fox) millions.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
Because James Cameron told the stories he wanted to tell within that franchise. I also think it's safe to assume that after two (un)successful sequels, he doesn't want any more involvement with the franchise.

Don't blame him, especially when Avatar is making him (and Fox) millions.
The answer is obvious: Aliens vs Terminators.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
Because James Cameron told the stories he wanted to tell within that franchise. I also think it's safe to assume that after two (un)successful sequels, he doesn't want any more involvement with the franchise.

Don't blame him, especially when Avatar is making him (and Fox) millions.
My statement was a slight nod to the fact that Cameron wouldn't do shit with the Terminator franchise. I just want him to own it again.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Update on Terminator rights: Sony Pictures and Lionsgate made bids, but it was sold to Pacificor, a hedge-fund company, for somewhere around 30 million.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63133
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

^ Yep, the company that put Halcyon in the red to begin with bought the rights, essentially wiping out their debt. Now, the question is where will they set up shop to produce the next film?
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Why doesn't the Terminator franchise just buy Joss Whedon?
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
Why doesn't the Terminator franchise just buy Joss Whedon?
Because Whedon lives in the US, not the USSR.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Grubert
The answer is obvious: Aliens vs Terminators.
Make. It. Happen.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by SFranke
Because Whedon lives in the US, not the USSR.
Old 02-10-10, 08:56 AM
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Holy crap, how did I miss this thread earlier. I would totally love this! I'm definitely a Firefly devotee and anything SciFi, Whedon cannot do wrong. I just hope that somehow he can get the money to do this. I'm guessing he'd need a pretty convincing pitch to a major studio to get them to shell out the cash to pick up the Terminator name...
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Grubert
The answer is obvious: Aliens vs Terminators.
Aliens vs. Avatars
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by harrydoyle
Whedon cannot do wrong.
As much as I enjoyed it (even loved it) towards the end, did you even see the clusterfuck that was Dollhouse? Fox's typical shenanigans aside, it was a really half-baked show that needed a whole lot of work. He's not infallible.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by RocShemp
As much as I enjoyed it (even loved it) towards the end, did you even see the clusterfuck that was Dollhouse? Fox's typical shenanigans aside, it was a really half-baked show that needed a whole lot of work. He's not infallible.
I agree, but it would still at the very least be a hell of a lot more interesting than anything McG would do with another shot.

Mark my words... in the coming months there will be an announcement of a Terminator reboot.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Originally Posted by Grubert
The answer is obvious: Aliens vs Terminators.


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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

I've seen those before and wondered if they were any good.

And also wondered exactly how Terminators could exist in the same universe as the Aliens & Predators.

Or how Batman could.

Or how Robocop could blast Terminators.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

I'd like to see what J.J Abrams could do for the Terminator franchise.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

I watched about 5 minutes of this movie on Syfy, "The Terminators":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350512/

it aired after some Transmorphers prequel
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

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I've seen those before and wondered if they were any good.

And also wondered exactly how Terminators could exist in the same universe as the Aliens & Predators.

Or how Batman could.

Or how Robocop could blast Terminators.
Didn't it turn out that Robocop was a pseudo-prototype for the Terminators?
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Yeah, but it's Frank Miller (before he completely lost his shit) and Walt Simonson doing Robocop vs. Terminator. That's all you really need to know. Continuity schmontinuity.

Though I do like to consider that William Gibson's unproduced Alien III, Aliens v1, Aliens v2, and Aliens: Earth War are the real continuation of the Alien franchise, and not the Alien^3 and Alien: Resurrrection. (The latter, which was written by you-know-who.)
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

People like to bash on Mr Whedon ever so often. But lets not forget that he did have a hand in the excellent Toy Story.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Even a broken clock gives the right time twice a day.
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Re: Joss Whedon wants to 'buy' the Terminator franchise...

Fanboys like to emotionally fellate Mr. Whedon ever so often. But let's not forget that he did write the abominable "Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else!" line for the sorta average first X-Men movie.



(Yes Whedonites, I've read all about how it was presented "out of context" by Singer's direction and Berry's delivery. I've know about the original context. It still blows.)

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