Siegs' Action-Packed Treatments for Cameron/Schwarzenegger Sequels
'First Class' Joe Hasan wrote:
Hollywood action man Arnold Schwarzenegger may be set to juggle his role as California Governor with a return to the big screen - he has reportedly agreed to star in two big money sequels. The actor-turned-politician has agreed to re-team with Oscar-winning director James Cameron in a fourth Terminator installment in addition to a sequel to True Lies, according to website Moviehole.net
Though I am in favor of the mediocre taste of "T3" being washed away, do we really need a sequel to "True Lies"? The Beatles never tried to re-do or continue THEIR "White Album" and there is no urgent need for James Cameron and Arnold to do so with theirs, either.
Carlos FM replied:
It could be a bunk rumor though. Cameron said after 9/11 he'd never bother with a True Lies pic because terrorist plots just seemed tatseless. Plus he's got like 3 other movies lined up, all of them 3D Imax FX extravaganzas.
Sounds like the sort of rumor that pops up everynow and then. Then again, if it is true, Cameron's pretty crafty with sequels, as Aliens and T2 prove. He could actually add something to the films overall.
T4, I dont know nor give a fuck about. Part 2 capped that franchise off nicely.
Eric Siegs replied:
"True Lies 2" wouldn't have to be about terrorists, necessarily. Someone from the agency could go rogue, like in "Eraser" or the first season of "24" or both "Mission Impossible" movies. Charlton Heston, reprising his role as the one-eyed boss, goes evil and holds the world hostage with America's own nuclear weapons, and only the husband-wife team of Harry & Helen Tasker can stop him!! By the second act it's revealed that Heston, suffering from the late stages of Alzheimer's, is actually being controlled by someone else, a shadowy mystery evil boss. And in act 3, the Taskers find out who it is: Tom Arnold. "Why did you do it?" Harry asks. And Tom says: "Because I'm tired of sitting in the fucking van all the time." Gunfight, then Tom Arnold escapes in a Hummer while Harry has to chase him in some rinky-dink piece of crap - like a Vespa or something equally emasculating - and he gets Tom Arnold to crash the Hummer, saying some witty Ahnold one-liner that I'll think up later, and then they fight with guns again, and Tom Arnold ends up with the advantage. He's got Harry backed into a corner, when all of a sudden Jamie Lee Curtis swoops down in an Apache helicopter, explodes Tom Arnold right off the top of wherever they are (I'm thinking bridge; cliff would work okay, maybe roof of a tall parking garage, but I like bridge best),
rescues Harry and the day is saved. Well, they still have to defuse the bomb. But they'll do that in the last second. Then they get back into the helicopter and fly off to their second honeymoon.
Seriously, a movie like that, how can they not make it?
And I know what you're asking now. "Ok hotshot, great synopsis for True Lies 2, but how would Terminator 4 work?" Easy, my friends, easy.
The war between the humans and the machines has started, and the people are looking to John Connor for guidance and leadership. The only problem is, he's got no actual military experience and isn't sure what he's doing. And then - zzap crackle crackle - a visitor froom the future comes! But it's not who you expect: it's John himself, older, from the end of the
war, and now played by Viggo Mortensen because he's hot right now. Old John teaches Young John how to lead, and just in time, because Skynet has just invented the Terminators. Imagine, if you will, an entire platoon of Arnolds on the attack. Remember "The 6th Day", when there were two Arnolds talking to each other? It'd be just like that, only times ten!
Also, we want to see Arnold evil again, like in the first one. Enough of this hero-robot-"I know why you cry"-Data bullshit. No! Terminators are mean. Anyway, with the two John Connors leading them, the people are able to fight off the all-out Arnold attack. But then - zzzap crackle crackle pshaow - more time-travelers appear: a trio of T-1000 units, to lead the machines. So the people get all chopped up and blown to shit, they go into hiding, and Future John is killed. Things are looking pretty bad for the people. But then they figure out a plan to break into a Terminator factory and re-program them at the assembly-line stage, so now they've got troops of good Terminators (ok, we had to see Arnold as a good guy again eventually). And with the good Terminators, the humans once again are able to fight off Skynet's forces and the day is saved. And then at the end, they find the preliminary plans for the time-travel device, and learn that somewhere, they don't know where, Skynet is building this thing. And John's all "I know what they're trying to do - they're gonna try to kill me before I'm born." And the people are like, "Well what are we going to do?" And John's all "Lock and load" and then boom credits.
Yep. That'd be a damn fine movie. That'll make a billion dollars.
Hollywood action man Arnold Schwarzenegger may be set to juggle his role as California Governor with a return to the big screen - he has reportedly agreed to star in two big money sequels. The actor-turned-politician has agreed to re-team with Oscar-winning director James Cameron in a fourth Terminator installment in addition to a sequel to True Lies, according to website Moviehole.net
Though I am in favor of the mediocre taste of "T3" being washed away, do we really need a sequel to "True Lies"? The Beatles never tried to re-do or continue THEIR "White Album" and there is no urgent need for James Cameron and Arnold to do so with theirs, either.
Carlos FM replied:
It could be a bunk rumor though. Cameron said after 9/11 he'd never bother with a True Lies pic because terrorist plots just seemed tatseless. Plus he's got like 3 other movies lined up, all of them 3D Imax FX extravaganzas.
Sounds like the sort of rumor that pops up everynow and then. Then again, if it is true, Cameron's pretty crafty with sequels, as Aliens and T2 prove. He could actually add something to the films overall.
T4, I dont know nor give a fuck about. Part 2 capped that franchise off nicely.
Eric Siegs replied:
"True Lies 2" wouldn't have to be about terrorists, necessarily. Someone from the agency could go rogue, like in "Eraser" or the first season of "24" or both "Mission Impossible" movies. Charlton Heston, reprising his role as the one-eyed boss, goes evil and holds the world hostage with America's own nuclear weapons, and only the husband-wife team of Harry & Helen Tasker can stop him!! By the second act it's revealed that Heston, suffering from the late stages of Alzheimer's, is actually being controlled by someone else, a shadowy mystery evil boss. And in act 3, the Taskers find out who it is: Tom Arnold. "Why did you do it?" Harry asks. And Tom says: "Because I'm tired of sitting in the fucking van all the time." Gunfight, then Tom Arnold escapes in a Hummer while Harry has to chase him in some rinky-dink piece of crap - like a Vespa or something equally emasculating - and he gets Tom Arnold to crash the Hummer, saying some witty Ahnold one-liner that I'll think up later, and then they fight with guns again, and Tom Arnold ends up with the advantage. He's got Harry backed into a corner, when all of a sudden Jamie Lee Curtis swoops down in an Apache helicopter, explodes Tom Arnold right off the top of wherever they are (I'm thinking bridge; cliff would work okay, maybe roof of a tall parking garage, but I like bridge best),
rescues Harry and the day is saved. Well, they still have to defuse the bomb. But they'll do that in the last second. Then they get back into the helicopter and fly off to their second honeymoon.
Seriously, a movie like that, how can they not make it?
And I know what you're asking now. "Ok hotshot, great synopsis for True Lies 2, but how would Terminator 4 work?" Easy, my friends, easy.
The war between the humans and the machines has started, and the people are looking to John Connor for guidance and leadership. The only problem is, he's got no actual military experience and isn't sure what he's doing. And then - zzap crackle crackle - a visitor froom the future comes! But it's not who you expect: it's John himself, older, from the end of the
war, and now played by Viggo Mortensen because he's hot right now. Old John teaches Young John how to lead, and just in time, because Skynet has just invented the Terminators. Imagine, if you will, an entire platoon of Arnolds on the attack. Remember "The 6th Day", when there were two Arnolds talking to each other? It'd be just like that, only times ten!
Also, we want to see Arnold evil again, like in the first one. Enough of this hero-robot-"I know why you cry"-Data bullshit. No! Terminators are mean. Anyway, with the two John Connors leading them, the people are able to fight off the all-out Arnold attack. But then - zzzap crackle crackle pshaow - more time-travelers appear: a trio of T-1000 units, to lead the machines. So the people get all chopped up and blown to shit, they go into hiding, and Future John is killed. Things are looking pretty bad for the people. But then they figure out a plan to break into a Terminator factory and re-program them at the assembly-line stage, so now they've got troops of good Terminators (ok, we had to see Arnold as a good guy again eventually). And with the good Terminators, the humans once again are able to fight off Skynet's forces and the day is saved. And then at the end, they find the preliminary plans for the time-travel device, and learn that somewhere, they don't know where, Skynet is building this thing. And John's all "I know what they're trying to do - they're gonna try to kill me before I'm born." And the people are like, "Well what are we going to do?" And John's all "Lock and load" and then boom credits.
Yep. That'd be a damn fine movie. That'll make a billion dollars.
posted by JO'B at 14:15
1 Comments:
Why haven't these movies been made already?
Tom Arnold controlling Charleton Heston and America's nuclear stockpile? Worth ten bucks right there. Similarly, who would not be willing to pay good money to see a brigade of governors launching an assault on the entire human race?
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