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Sarah Connor Back In ‘Terminator 5’?

Published

13 years ago

August 29, 2011

Since there’s not a script yet we’ll have to file this one in the ‘grain of salt’ category, but Justin Lin is talking about bringing the character of Sarah Connor back for Terminator 5.

Speaking to Moviehole, Lin dropped the following hints, “I mean, Sarah Connor is such a big part of the franchise, you know. Yeah, I mean I’ve always been surprised how in part 3 she was just like… It was like one line and she was gone… But I think the great thing about this franchise is… You can actually have different canons because you have the element of time travel. So, there’s a way of kind of respecting all the works but also able to create a new time line.”

Megan Ellison now holds the reigns to the Terminator franchise. She’s 25 years old and, in addition to having a hand in producing True Grit, is financing the next two Paul Thomas Anderson films, the next Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman collaboration, and the new Andrew Dominik movie with Brad Pitt Cogan’s Trade. In short, she’s a better brand of human. I’m not sure if the Terminator series is something she really has her heart in or if it was acquired to offset some of the potential risk of actually making good movies (not to say some of these films haven’t been great, but we’re reaching an area of diminishing returns), though I imagine she wouldn’t be one to balk at Lin’s whims.

More after the jump.

Lin directed Fast Five which, in addition to being really fun, was also hugely successful. So if anyone is going to get their way, it might as well be these two.

However, lest you get too excited, nowhere in here do they mention Linda Hamilton or even Lena Headey.

If they brought back Sarah Connor but had someone entirely new playing the role, would you still be stoked?

Movies

Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

Published

13 hours ago

April 23, 2024

John Squires

After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.