Set the World on Fire… 'Terminator 4' Going PG-13
Don't even bother complaining...
If you are already planning on complaining about this I am sure Ain't It Cool News has a profanity laden thread already growing as I type. The headline is accurate in that it appears Warner Bros. is skewing away from tradition and the next installment in the Terminator franchise, currently dubbed Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will be aiming for a kid friendly PG-13 rating. Perhaps the Alien vs. Predator incident at Fox wasn't enough to prove that doesn't really work.
Production on the film began today and the producers at the Halcyon Co. say they aim to deliver a PG-13 movie to Warner Bros. for release on May 22, 2009.
I am not at all upset about this, primarily because I have never been a huge fan of the Terminator franchise. The first one didn't do much for me. I thought the second one was a bloated and overhyped mess and, if anything, the third one is the best, despite the fact that it is pretty much an awful film.
Halcyon's co-founder and co-CEO Victor Kubicek, a broker-turned-writer-producer, told Variety, "The ratings have changed… The PG-13 has increased in intensity."
Rating changes or not, the fact that the Terminator franchise is one of the highest-grossing R-rated franchises of all time, with the first three films having grossed more than $1.03 billion worldwide should be enough to secure a continuing trend. If this news tells me anything, and if I were to make a speculation about the film, I would say they don't have much confidence in the story they are telling and think they need to get as many people to see the film as possible opening weekend because it won't be a film that will gain much traction.
You could also say it is also so they could make more money on toys and Happy Meal sales, but geeks come in all ages now, just look at Sideshow Collectibles, that shit costs a ton, and I know it isn't little kids buying the majority of it.
In Terminator Salvation, an adult John Connor, played by Christian Bale, leads the war to save humanity from the killing machines. The film is set in post-apocalyptic 2029 and currently speculation is still leaning toward Josh Brolin playing the role of the lead Terminator, but that is still rumor even if Variety sees it fit to print.
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Im a huge Terminator fan, but Im not upset, certainly not surprised. Overall, the second and third Terminator movies were fairly light Rs anyway, with only a few parts that were really bloody, and T3 was filmed as PG-13, so really not a shocker. Still has what looks to be a damn fine cast, with an extremely mediocre director… guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Yeah, McG as director is quite an odd choice to say the least. If Bale weren't in this one my interest would likely be zero.
T1 and T2 were good movies no matter what anybody says. T3 was a whole different style of the terminator sequel. from what i see in the trailers for T4, i have a feeling that it will also be different then the first 2. i guess it has to be because the first 2 were classics… my opinion about the T4 rating is: considering the general plot of all the movies (people being killed, burned, stabbed, blown up, shot at, etc.), they are all pretty much designed for the adult audience, so why make a movie, like the terminator, and hold back on the violence and cool gory sences? just so they could fill a few more seats and make a few toys? i mean come on, its the terminator, there should NOT BE a pg-13 terminator.. whats next? Terminator: the musical?
something tells me this movie isnt gonna be as cool as i thought it was gonna be.