I'm not one for posting spoilers but rumored TERMINATOR IV ending makes me puke

by Matt Holmes

You should never go back. I say it time and time again. Nostalgia is one of the most damaging diseases infecting the blood stream of the movie industry and it's killing the originality of this creative art form right now. This desire to look into the past rather than ahead, to aim for the cheap buck instead of forging future franchises like true visionaries have done before us will have grave consequences ten years from now. There will be no more Terminators to remake, no more Indy Jones, no more Die Hard's. Maybe then we will see some kind of new beginning or maybe it will all go poof!

I've said it from day one. What an opportunity WB have with this new Terminator trilogy. What a chance to make something different...something fresh and exciting but no it's nostalgia raring it's ugly head once again. Has anyone at that studio actually seen what James Cameron did with the franchise in the first two movies because this just contradicts and pisses on everything the legacy stands for. Big spoilers here about a possible ending as sent to AICN from one of their spys...
"Alright so the main character is a cyborg named Marcus. For some background, Marcus was a criminal who was executed in 2003. He donated his body to Project Angel which was involved with SkyNet. They take his body and make a terminator out of him so he's a terminator skeleton but has living muscle/skin and a beating heart too. At the end of the movie John Connor is fighting a T800 model 101 and loses. He dies and the top resistance people come up with a plan to help the resistance keep fighting on. The resistance feels that it's important to keep the image or idea that John Connor is still alive so the resistance keeps going. So they rip off Marcus' skin and put John Connor's on the skeleton so now Marcus is John Connor."
And if this scoop is not true, sadly I'm pretty certain it wouldn't be as far out as the real ending as cooked up by the writers of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.