More Terminator Films On The Way For Some Reason

If there's one thing that hecklerspray loves, it's watching a musclebound pensioner pretending to be a killer robot in an ill-thought-out and unnecessary action film.

It's clear from this, then, that we believed Terminator 3 to be quite possibly the greatest film in the world - and completely disagreed with any of those 'critic' types who claimed it was shambling, pointless, badly-written and generally cack.

Those Hollywood types haven't paid attention to the drubbing the last Terminator instalment received, however. Oh, no - they've only gone and announced plans for three more of the bloody things. Unfortunately, none of these new instalments will feature creaky and increasingly hilarious Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role, which means that we point-blank won't be interested… we'll probably all be watching Pirates Of The Caribbean 13: Keira Knightley Learns To Act instead.

Apparently the rights to the cybernetic film franchise have been snapped up in a deal:

… said to be in the tens of millions of dollars. The Halcyon Co. — a privately financed firm — plans to begin immediate preproduction on "Terminator 4," with hopes that it will be ready for release in the first half of 2009. The script, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, was part of the transaction. No distributor is on board, or any talent.

Which is a polite way of saying that someone has bought a script for a lot of money, really.

Unsurprisingly, Halcyon is also considering a 'marketing and licensing push' for the studio, presumably with the intention of creating an entire range of evil robot toys. The original 1984 Terminator had no such spin-off figures, however - kids back then still maintained some level of innocence, whereas the modern-day little bastards would no doubt giggle with glee at the idea of being able to attack their sister with a red-eyed metal skeleton.

Of course, there's always the danger that - in a chilling reflection of the movie - Terminator toys could turn on their human owners and cause all sorts of havoc. Like that time hecklerspray's GI Joe collection told us to 'go and put arsenic in the school canteen custard tray.'

Those cheeky little soldiers.

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