ROTTEN TOMATOES: Terminator 4 Plot Details Leaked!

Terminator 4 Plot Details Leaked!

Beyond this place lie spoilers.

by Jeff Giles | December 20, 2007

After the comparatively lackluster T3: Rise of the Machines, more than a few people left the Terminator series for dead -- but as it turns out, the franchise may just be catching its second wind.

Aside from The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Fox spinoff series debuting next month, Terminator fans have a fourth film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, to look forward to -- and after months of scoffing at the very idea of another sequel, let alone one directed by McG, looking forward to it is exactly what many of those fans are doing. All it took was Christian Bale stepping in as arguably the franchise's central character, resistance fighter John Connor.

So. Now that everyone's excited about T4, and filming is only a few months away, how about we get started on some spoilers?

Yes indeedy, plot details for the latest installment are already leaking out, and CHUD's Devin Faraci's got 'em. If you want to know nothing about the new Terminator going in, avert your eyes now! Spoilers come in many forms, sometimes even as italicized fonts:

John Connor is not the main character of Terminator 4; that character is someone named Marcus. Marcus was put 'out of commission' before the nuclear holocaust on Judgment Day and he wakes up about 15 years before the future we see in the original Terminator films, which puts the movie at about 2015 or so. Marcus is a bad ass - think along the lines of Riddick - and what he finds is a blasted world filled with horror. Radiation poisoning, starvation, rampant jaywalking - all the things you expect post-apocalypse. There's also John Connor, who is trying to build a utopian society while running the human resistance.

Connor's role is apparently bigger in the second film; whoever they hire for Marcus (my understanding is that the part is not yet cast) will be around for all three films. Terminator 4 is going to be the most male-centric of all the Terminator films, but there is a butt busting female character by the name of Blair, a pilot for the human resistance.

They're going to need some buttkickers, because the scope of the action in Terminator 4 is HUGE. Lots of machine action in this film, including some battles with the T-600s. Yup, the rubber skin Terminators. And there's another familiar character that shows up - Reese shows up in a scene with John Connor. I don't know what his involvement in the next two films will be, though.

A big aspect of the story is the degrees of difference between a human and a Terminator. By which I mean cyborgs. By which I mean human brains in robot bodies.

Source: CHUD

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frogleg writes:
on Dec 20 2007 05:41 AM

Bale just punched this up several notches on a lot of people's radars, I bet.

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Novastar. writes:
on Dec 20 2007 05:43 AM

Let's hope McG can pull this off? I have my doubts,but as you said...Let's hope!

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Comment writes:
on Dec 20 2007 05:48 AM

Would not of expected Bale...this guy must be rolling in cash with all the work he is doing.

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jasperoosterveld writes:
on Dec 20 2007 05:50 AM

"Now that everyone's excited about T4"

What are you talking about? I ****ing despise this whole movie and the further destruction of the Terminator name.

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Mr. Bowler writes:
on Dec 20 2007 05:55 AM

Hope they don't try and make it just a bunch of action sequences followed by corny speeches. That's what set T2 apart from the rest of the franchise, and it would be good if they tried to pull that off again.

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Gimy writes:
on Dec 20 2007 06:12 AM

Comment...he's not a $, or fame guy...but i bet he makes a crapload from action figures, the vid games and such just from Batman alone.

i actually think this COULD be frikkin awesome. T2 sucked because it didn't have a decent screen presence(T2 had two great terminators). now there's bale, plus it should be action packed. i think this could revive the franchise better than people think. but...it has to be executed well. if its sh3t and the cgi is laughable...nobody, not even bale...could save it. i highly doubt that'll happen though

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monsterofmud writes:
on Dec 20 2007 06:34 AM

Are you kidding?! T3 was the best entry in the series, and there are a lot of fans that wholly support it.

That said, bring on the 4th!

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dahluzz writes:
on Dec 20 2007 06:49 AM

In reply to this comment (#1377660)
I will be shocked if one single person agrees with that statement today. that's just idiocy, plain and simple.

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southwick writes:
on Dec 20 2007 06:59 AM

I actually like what they did with the Terminator story in the last one.
The choice to show that the war was inevitable, and that Sarah Conner had been unable to prevent our destruction, in my opinion was a good one.

Unfortunately the movie was bad, and what could have ultimately been a great continuation of the franchise may have destroyed it.

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bamb0o-stick writes:
on Dec 20 2007 07:10 AM

The assassin/protector formula is really getting old in this movie franchise. I guess moving the story towards the Judgment Day time line might prove interesting. I definitely would have never seen Bale as the role of John Connor, still skeptical of it being good though.

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volid writes:
on Dec 20 2007 07:16 AM

Sounds lame ...

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AlbertBrodsky writes:
on Dec 20 2007 08:04 AM

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Monster, I know we all have a right to our own opinion, but yours is clearly wrong. Please don't comment about Terminator ever again.

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jasperoosterveld writes:
on Dec 20 2007 08:06 AM

"T3 was the best entry in the series"
Are you mental?

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chaddukes writes:
on Dec 20 2007 08:07 AM

would have prefered if he played the Terminator. He is a stellar villian, I hope he goes back to his roots eventually.

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blank blank writes:
on Dec 20 2007 08:21 AM

even though T2 gets all the love (deservedly so, it is an iconic movie), i really think T1 is the best. Sure, i hasnt aged as well as T2 because of its 80s cheesiness at the night club, but when ahhnold goes into the police station, and the ending... BAD ***.

T3 just didnt have that "bad ***-ness"... if i were directing this movie, i would seriously consider having as little CGI as possible. sure you need it for the big sequences, but just hire stan winston and watch him do his thing.

bale has never really been the stereotypical villain (in american psycho he kills people, but that doesnt make him a villain).... unless you count shaft. i think he is perfect for connor. after bumbling stahl and kid furlong, we need someone with michael beihn (sp?) toughness...

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stevegilpin writes:
on Dec 20 2007 08:29 AM

Anyone who thinks Terminator 3 was the best in the series is just plain wrong...I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I'm a little disappointed in Christian Bale for getting involved with this, because it probably will not be very good.
I'm a huge fan of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I think the story ends after part two.

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lonechicken writes:
on Dec 20 2007 09:00 AM

I liked T3 and thought it was good (hey, the 71% tomato rating agrees). I've always liked Jonathan Mastow, Claire Danes, and Nick Stahl who always brings his A game ever since he was a kid actor. I really liked how the bad guys won (more or less) at the end. A ballsy ending.

But, T2 was just better.

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Blade501 writes:
on Dec 20 2007 09:41 AM

The third terminator film did what it was meant to do: close a serious problem that the more iconic films presented. Representing time.

First film. Dated but classic. Time is closed loop. Inevitable end.

Second film. My personal favorite. Time, however, is now an open loop. Holy hell! We can CHANGE THE FUTURE! BLECH

Cameron, as good as he was, seriously mucked up his own mythology. The third film, inside jokes, bad acting and ridiculous sequences, brought about a necessary end to the trilogy. And for that, I believe it was underrated as a sequel installment and all you haters need to realize that even your God Cameron made a HUGE mistake with his own story.

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DON OF THE D.E.D writes:
on Dec 20 2007 10:18 AM

I saw T-3 in the theatre. What a vile p.o.s of a movie it was. This movie was not good. Where were the war scenes between the humans and machines? You could see them from a distance through the windows of the building that the characters were in. How lame!!!! Why in the world have we not seen more of this in the terminator movies. Yes there were some, but in T-3, what a joke. this movie utterly sucked. Maybe the bikini bandits should have made an appearance and used the goldenrod to restore peace between man and machine!! T-3 a good movie.... yeah, when you need a video tape to start a fire!!

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Orangecinema writes:
on Dec 20 2007 10:48 AM

mcg the fact that conner will be a secondary character the guy who wrote catwoman = a big ****ing disappointment.

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