McG reveals ultra-bleak alternate 'Terminator: Salvation' ending
Director McG has built up a lot of goodwill with us thanks to his work on "Chuck," but his proposed ending to the upcoming time-travel actioner "Terminator: Salvation" has our hackles up.
[Spoilers coming, even if they won't make it to movie theaters.]
In an interview with io9, the director explains he wanted the movie to end with Marcus Wright, a half-human/half-machine hybrid who joins John Connor's anti-Terminator resistance movement, killing all of the main characters.
"That was at a time when there was a very dark ending," McG tells the site. "There was a great irony in the way this film shook down. There was this leak that Connor dies and they put Connor's face on top of the machine body of Marcus. Everybody went, 'Booooooo, what's that?' That's half of it [the ending]. We had a jet-black ending. Connor dies, we're in a room with all the people we care about. You take Connor's likeness, you put it on the living machine of Marcus. He sits up, now looking like Christian Bale, takes a gun, kills Kate, kills Kyle, kills Star, kills everybody, eyes flare red, [snaps] the end."
...really?
Now, we know the "Terminator" movies and television show have played fast and loose with the rules of time travel in that they say "this is inevitable" while also claiming our heroes can avert or otherwise make better the future. McG's ending, though, would with the death of John Connor actually prevent the previous movies by killing John and Kyle before the former could send the latter to the past.
Probably keeping that in mind, McG has said the jet-black ending may not even appear as a DVD extra.
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If I recall correctly, wasn't RoboCop first with the "a half-human/half-machine" hybrid? Sounds a little similar.
Christopher, I don't know that it was first, but it certainly was a couple of decades ago. I wonder how that plotline will play out soon after "Battlestar Galactica" did it so well.
Hmm. Is this McG's way of inserting his own 'giant spider'? (Ref. Kevin Smith story on Superman script)
As we all know now the giant spider that was attempted to be forced on Kevin Smith's by a 'producer' later appeared in Wil Smith's Wild, Wild West fiasco.
Why do I mention this?
IIRC McG tried his luck with the Superman movie where the script ended that Luthor was a Kryptonian.
This "John Conner was really a Terminator" spin seems rooted from that type of groan worthy spin.
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Hmm. Is this McG's way of inserting his own 'giant spider'? (Ref. Kevin Smith story on Superman script)
As we all know now the giant spider that was attempted to be forced on Kevin Smith's script by a 'producer' later appeared in Will Smith's Wild, Wild West fiasco.
Why do I mention this?
IIRC McG tried his luck with the Superman movie script where the script ended that Luthor was a Kryptonian.
This "John Conner was really a Terminator" spin seems rooted from that type of groan worthy spin.
This is nothing new - in the early 70s "The Six Million Dollar Man" was a hit TV series for most of the decade, complimented by "The Bionic Woman" - both based on the novel "Cyborg". Of course, these cyborgs were not trying to exterminate the human race.
Have any of these fuckers making these films even seen T1 and T2?