Cameron back to reboot franchise - Thoughts and theories
http://deadline.com/2017/01/terminator-james-cameron-deadpool-tim-miller-david-ellison-skydance-1201890848/
Super-hyped about this!
So what do you think Cameron has left to say about the franchise?
Frankly, the one worthwhile story I feel is left to tell with this franchise is what happens AFTER the war...which has never really been covered in any Terminator media, to my knowledge.
How's this for a plot - The film could start in 2029 with Skynet's defeat and Kyle being sent back (Genisys covered it already...but I'd like to see Cameron's take). Flash-forward something like 5-6 years...and we then get to see how human civilization is rebuilt in a post-apocalyptic world.
The central conflict of the film involves a decision on whether or not to restart Skynet - this time to serve humanity. There are two factions - one that believes that Skynet is simply a tool and its time it was reprogrammed and used to benefit humanity; and the other which believes that its borderline sacrilegious to bring back basically what an entire generation only knew as the Devil.
Then there's this character (I'm seeing her as a young woman who has a connection to Kyle Reese - not a former lover or anything, but more likely a sibling/cousin/friend) who uncovers some kind of controversy involving the new Skynet project and she seeks out John Connor to help her.
John is of course living in retirement, far from the world, and eager to keep his distance from everything. He's a bit shell-shocked from the war, has PTSD, and generally has trouble coming to grips with the fact that the war is finally over and the rest of his life is not pre-ordained. He's haunted frequently by nightmares of Sarah and Kyle (and through the movie, there will be flashbacks depicting events such as Sarah's death and John's first meeting with Kyle and giving him the photo of Sarah). And he wants nothing to do with this conflict. Its only when he's told that there's a possibility of Skynet coming back and the war starting anew that he's willing to enter the fray.
The movie is basically about this duo journeying through the post-apocalyptic landscape, dealing with both human and machine threats, and exploring themes of technophobia and what progress truly means. And I envision the reveal as being a human conspirator seeking to subvert the new Skynet to become a tyrant while hiding behind the machines, which leads John to perhaps wonder if humans are the real evil and if the right side won the war or not.
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