The Terminator Will Be Back, But Minus Arnold
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The popular movie franchise, Terminator, will be back for another trilogy.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a nascent film company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular movie series from producers Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna. The deal is said to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
The Halcyon Co., a privately financed firm, is planning to begin immediate preproduction on “Terminator 4,” with a target release in the first half of 2009. The script, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, was part of the transaction.
No actor is yet aboard the project. And Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appearance in the new trilogy is also bleak.
Halcyon is headed by advertising veteran Derek Anderson and “Cook-Off!” producer Victor Kubicek. The two pursued the “Terminator ” rights aggressively for several months, knowing that the series is one of the few recognizable properties out there not in the hands of a major studio. Halcyon also is concentrating on a merchandising and licensing push for the property.
The rights to “Terminator ” have changed hands several times.
Kassar acted as an executive producer for 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment day,” and he and Vajna acquired interests from Gale Anne Hurd — who produced the first one in 1984 and executive produced the second — when the duo made 2003’s “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.”
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