Merrick here...


TERMINATOR SALVATION is still a few weeks away from release, but McG & minions are already mulling the TERMINATOR film that'll follow it:

McG is already looking ahead to the next chapter in what the studio hopes will be another trilogy. "I strongly suspect the next movie is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011," McG reveals. "John Connor is going to travel back in time and he's going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They've figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you're going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be fucking awesome. I also think he's going to meet a scientist that's going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who famously played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves."

..says McG in THIS INTERVIEW with Film Journal International.

I guess we're getting into alternate timelines and what not, as I sure don't recall this kind of idea being mentioned in previous TERMINATOR mythology (or did I miss something?)

Still, if approached like a GODZILLA movie...with future tech invading our time a la giant monsters...and modern tanks/jets rolling out to get crushed by it as our cities crumble? The Geek in me wouldn't mind at least a little of that...