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About a month ago I wrote about how the Terminator franchise rights were up for grabs now that the company who owns the rights, Halcyon Co., has filed for bankruptcy. Well, the rights to the beloved sci-fi franchise are now officially on the auction block and we already have a wild opening bid that’s making news.The man behind the bid? Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse.
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“Here’s the thing: It’s not a slam on The Terminator. I love The Terminator. That part’s totally true. I was thinking to myself, ‘Not since they auctioned off frames from The Little Mermaid have I wished I had more money this much. So you know what, never hurts to ask.’ I loved the movies, even the later movies. I loved the mythology. I loved the TV show [The Sarah Connor Chronicles]–like, really loved. Not for pretend. And not just because of [star] Summer [Glau].”The most surprising thing I read in that quote is that Joss Whedon is actually a fanboy for The Sarah Connor Chronicles – that show certainly didn’t do any favors for the first season of Whedon’s Dollhouse last year!Needless to say, I’m sure The Halcyon Co. will get a better offer than Whedon’s for the Terminator rights – but wouldn’t be cool if by some chance Joss Whedon became the master of the Terminator universe (or would that be more of a disaster)? Anyhoo, Halcyon bought the rights for $25 million and now figures their worth – after all the great, great, work they did on Terminator Salvation
– to be up around the $60 million range. Whoever nabs said rights gets to call the shots on how any other sequel films or TV spin-offs will go down (hopefully far removed from McG’s terrible plans for T5), and will inherit whatever money can still be squeezed out of Salvation when it hits DVD in December.Do you have a strategic business plan for who should hold the rights to the Terminator franchise? Should it be a studio or an independent investor who just has that much love for the series?Sources: LA Times, Entertainment Weekly
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Josh Rose says:Gotta love that Whedon sense of humour (and anyone who read his open letter with the bid knows that as much as he was being serious, his tongue was still firmly planted within cheek). I’ve seen website after website (so that’s two) say that they really wished they sold Joss the rights so that he could do all the stuff he’d promised (more porn).To be honest… yeah, it’d be sort of awesome, but this is coming from a self confessed Whedon fanboy.That said, it ain’t gonna happen for ten grand so I think it’ll be interesting to see who does buy up the rights. Likely a major studio, but there’s no denying, the properties worth a lot, even with Salvation’s losses. In the right hands, a fifth movie could make a killing at the box office.
M-Cat says:ogb says:M-Cat says:M-Cat says:hudson says:hudson says:
KantStandYa says:ogb says:chrisj says:Id say people over exaggerated how bad T4 was. It seems people overseas have more of a open mind on the film. Im sure they didnt like it Because Cameron wasnt involved. Even Linda Hamilton and Arnold were involved in some way so that counts for somthin and Arnold gave it thumbs up. I had people complain to me that Arnold should of been in the film etc. He said it himself he didnt want to cheat the fans and he’s not as young lookin like he was in the first film obviously. With film opening with the early years of the war, id say there was no need for arnold to be in the film mainly because his purpose in the franchise was a assassin or a protector sent back thru time. Im still hoping for T5 and that it continue on from T4.
Rhaemye says:Wouldn’t it be better if James Cameron just bought the rights? I’d totally understand that from his point of view. He’d have a big say in the coming movies, after other people just made a complete fool out of his franchise with T3, and a slightly smaller fool with T4.
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790 says:chrisj says:Ken J says:ogb says:Mike E. says:790 says:Out of all the studios Disney could easily afford the 60 mil its going for,,, scary…Its like the real Skynet buying the rights to Terminator.^
I’ve heard rumors that Sony is actually going to pony up the cash.
Stephie says:Mike E. says:
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M-Cat says:chrisj says:hudson says:Ken J says:790 says:Evan says:Evan says:Ken J says:790 says: I hope you get help bro,,, as in medical /psychological help,,, 790 says: Really retaRded when you think about it,,, Its going to be interesting to see how this turns out no doubt,,,
Ken J says:790 says: How you have online access in that mental ward is the real question,,,
Gigan300 says:Ken J says:
Gigan300 says:Ken J says:AJ says:I cannot imagine anything worse than Joss Whedon involved with Terminator, I thought the franchise had sunk to the depths of depravity, but wait, here is a lower place.
chrisj says:I remember reading how Cameron mentioned he told all he wanted in the first two films and that he wanted to move on to other projects instead of makin another terminator film cause there were already talks of a 3rd installment not long after T2 came out. Plus Cameron originally only planned to make one terminator film w/ half of plot of T2 connected to T1 but fell short cause at the time he wasnt able to create the T-1000 yet. So he went with the ida of a bad terminator & a human protector instead and use the T-1000 in the sequel.
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