Oct 15, 2007 - The Terminator franchise is back - just like Arnold Schwarzenegger promised - with the fourth film of the series: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The writers behind T3, John Brancato and Michael Ferris, wrote the screenplay for Terminator #4 and Warner Bros Pictures is eyeing a 2008 start date with plans to release the film in the summer of 2009.
While there's a possibility California Governor Schwarzenegger may do a cameo in the new Terminator movie, the film will definitely not center around his character. The fourth Terminator movie is expected to be the first in a series of three new adventures set in the future. In an interview with Daily Variety, Halcyon co-CEO and Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producer Derek Anderson said, "This is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind."
No director has signed on to the film yet, and there hasn't been any word on casting.
The original Terminator was released in 1984 and was budgeted at $6.5 million. Terminator 2: Judgment Day hit theaters in 1991 and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning four. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines had the biggest budget of the Terminator films (approximately $200 million) and did $44 million over the 2003 July 4th holiday weekend.
Source: Variety
