Huge Terminator Rumor Afoot
June 6, 2008 by brian
Chud and Ain’t It Cool News are both reporting what could be a gigantic spoiler for the fourth Terminator installment. Please take this as a disclaimer to not read any further if you don’t care to have it spoiled, or if you have any love left for the franchise.
Image courtesy of Newscom.
JOHN CONNOR IS A TERMINATOR?
Or at least he will be by the end of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins according to these reports.
According to the rumor/spoiler Chud’s running with (and we have no real way to confirm this yet) the main character of the film is actually a cyborg named Marcus. He’s a criminal executed in 2003 and his body becomes the property of an organization involved with Skynet.
Marcus becomes a terminator with some human tissue including a beating heart. At some point near the end of the movie, hero John Connor (played by Christian Bale in this one) is killed fighting a T-800. The resistance figures they need an icon more than a martyr so they take John Connor’s skin and place it on Marcus’ body, making Marcus a robotic John Connor impersonator.
If any of this is true, I feel confident in saying this franchise is history. It’s so crazy though, it could very likely be one of those wild net rumors from time to time. Hollywood’s done dumber things though.
so this how cylons were first created. this just sounds so bad that this movie needs to go straight to Blockbuster. How was T3 never saw it.
T3 was OK, but not anything like T2. I bought it merely to complete my collection, otherwise it would have remained a rental. There some good action scenes & the story is solid until the last 1/4 of the film. You’ll know what I mean when they reveal what “skynet” was. The other thing that was lame was they gave Arnold/T-101 to many cheesy jokes. I gave it a “C-”.
Which is why I’m really worried & disappointed they actual got a studio & producers to back T4.
–Godspeed–
Surely not even McG would do what is being suggested here to a franchise, especially since word has leaked out. But stranger things have happened.
The script drafts I read stated Marcus is a test pilot for the time travel machine skynet developed.
He is/was a prisoner and opted for research instead of execution. He “died” because he disappeared through time.