R-Rating For TERMINATOR 5 Confirmed

R-Rating For TERMINATOR 5 Confirmed R-Rating For TERMINATOR 5 Confirmed

Despite concerns over the next Terminator installment being rated PG-13 (like the previous film), Annapurna Pictures owner Megan Ellison has confirmed that the film will indeed be rated R.

By PaulRom - Jan 26, 2012 08:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Via TheTerminatorFans



It's been a while since we've heard anything official about the next Terminator film, which would have Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role as the title character. But now, Megan Ellison - owner of Annapurna Pictures, which currently own the rights for the film - has answered a question from fansite The Terminator Fans regarding the rating of the film, confirming that it'll be an R-rated film. Various concerns have been made over the idea of another Terminator film being PG-13 after Salvation (the worries especially increased after The Expendables 2 was confirmed to be PG-13), but now those worries can be laid to rest.

TheTerminatorFans.com : @meganeellison We hope you can bring this franchise back from the brink of PG-13 HELL!

Megan Ellison : @terminatorfans We can't really tell you guys anything about Terminator BUT it will be an R rated film as God and James Cameron intended.


The film currently has no director (Justin Lin backed out a couple months ago to focus on Fast & Furious 6), and the rights are said to be reverting back to James Cameron in 2018. Share your thoughts below in the usual place.








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Shaman
Shaman - 1/26/2012, 8:34 AM
All this means is that they're thinking of calling it "Terminator: Warzone". For any other franchise, i actually would've cared.
Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 1/26/2012, 8:41 AM
I don't see why there was concern. Salvation was great, with or without the R.
Minghagz
Minghagz - 1/26/2012, 9:03 AM
Maybe this will bring Arnold back to the movie biz! lol
MisterNiceGuy
MisterNiceGuy - 1/26/2012, 9:11 AM
I can not believe people are actually supporting these movies and asking for reboots of the originals. It makes me want to trash your [frick]ing lights
drewXdeficit
drewXdeficit - 1/26/2012, 9:14 AM
She says the film will be "...as God and James Cameron intended." I don't know about God, but not having James Cameron involved contradicts what she said. They should've stopped after T2. The story was over. They stopped Judgement Day from happening.

Salvation was a fresh take on the series, which was nice to see, but it was executed very poorly.
BlindLemonShemp
BlindLemonShemp - 1/26/2012, 9:14 AM
Bring Back Arnold!!!

and have one of the Terminators be Ultra Magnus!!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 1/26/2012, 9:27 AM
Leave Terminator alone!

It stoped being interesting after Judgement Day.
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 1/26/2012, 9:30 AM
Don't [frick] it up, this could be dope
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 1/26/2012, 10:04 AM
Morty: Agreed that a terminator should go back and take care of the third and fourth movies. How many Terminator stories can be done before enough paradoxes are created to damage the time/space continuum?

T2 had the perfect ending to the whole thing. Why add any more to it, unless you're filling in the time between the first two movies.
Fogs
Fogs - 1/26/2012, 10:44 AM
That actually makes this movie more interesting to me, the rating.

T3 in my opinion is the weak link. It could've started on Connor explaining a la doc brown what a time paradox was and why J-day was unavoidable. Then go from there. Unfortunately they just tried to reenact T2.

About Salvation, I loved it.

And I'll tell you why: I don't know what led me to think this but here it goes: when I was at the theater and Marcus appeared I immediatelly thought of him with arnold's face. And the movie (which is good anyway imo) gets 200% better.

Try that once and you'll see. Connor wasn't talkin to skynet when he said "you killed my father, you tried to kill my mother".

That also explains his reluctance on trusting him (specially after what arnold said in T3, the only really cool line, that he managed to kill connor because of his affection to that model).

Every scene between them gets deeper and we'd be introducer to the original arnold-faced guy, with a background to him.

I imagine if that wasn't the original plan. It would be awesome and I still think on having time to try to manipulate the movie with a arnold face model.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 1/26/2012, 10:50 AM
This was never meant to be a franchise in the first place! James Cameron ended it with Judgement Day and the studios just kept making more crap and then selling the rights on to another studio to make more crap.

The sad thing is that they know fanboys are stupid enough to part with their cash on any make-it-up-as-you-go-along flick as long as it has special effects in it!
SimyJo
SimyJo - 1/26/2012, 11:16 AM
An 18 certificate sure... but why R-rating?, its hardly going to be a Terminator porno; "Live with me if you want to cum!"
JackBauer
JackBauer - 1/26/2012, 11:45 AM
Obviously, T1 and T2 were great. I haven't seen Salvation yet but I really liked Rise of the Machines. That may have had something to do with Kristanna Loken ;)

EarOne
EarOne - 1/26/2012, 11:46 AM
The Terminator - a crazy low budget sci-fi/action masterpiece. it's got the job done. period.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - the story's not as fresh as the original, but it's got all those groundbreaking special cg visual f/x to OVERCOMPENSATE for its shortcomings.

Terminator: Rise of the Machines - after a long string of flops, Arnie needs a box office injection to his movie career. thus, the movie. a pointless sequel. that's WHY Cameron didn't even bother.

Terminator Salvation - a MAJOR LETDOWN. i mean, with Christian Bale's involvement and a star-in-the-making, Sam Worthington, in a very worthy commanding performance. he tops Bale, in this, i think. but, overall...disappointing, nonetheless. but, whatdoyouexpect from the director of both Charlie's Angels movies, McG??

The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series - anything with Lena Headey...i'm THERE, though, Headey resembles in ABSOLUTELY NO WAY the original Sarah, Linda Hamilton... but, seriously, the series was pretty underrated.
SpiderFan35
SpiderFan35 - 1/26/2012, 11:55 AM
As has been mentioned already, language and violence that requires an R rating is great, but it still won't make up for cheesy crap like they have done in the previous films. Eddie Furlong was painful throughout all of T2, and Arnie cracking corny catch phrases is only funny to fans of Jeff Dunham "comedy".

Maybe they can work these into the next movie:
'Don't go there girl.'
'Oh no you dih-int.'
'That's what she said' (ok, that one might actually be funny)
GrayFox1025
GrayFox1025 - 1/26/2012, 11:55 AM
As far as I am concerned, T2 is the end of the series

With T3 Arnold comes back and basically says "yeeeaaahh, so remember all the work we spent into trying to stop skynet and destroying me cpu, well that was just a waste of time so skynet still exist =D"

Thanks T3 for ruining The Terminator
Rubbers
Rubbers - 1/26/2012, 12:05 PM
Obviously @ monkeyballs3 you have a poor understanding of the terminator in T2. As proven by your mentioning several times (get over it!) of your dislike of "I now know why you cry..." line. In my opinion, this was the best ending the terminator could have had; it made the movie. What set this terminator apart from the first is that he was programmed to better relate to people as well as a child -- to become more human -- whereas the first terminator was all about seek and destroy. T2 was far more creative, had the best story line, & best acting. All other after the first two had there moments but overall failed to live up to the first two; Especially Salvation which sucked more than any of the terminator films. Good, but not great, special effects (only cause cgi/technology was better), weak depiction of the future, horrible character development, and twists/turns that made no sense. The film was just stupid which is why I only wtatched it once when it came out in theatre. I knew there was a lot of risk involved by trusting "McG" with this film (still can't believe he got Cameron's approval) but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I was wrong in doing do. Takes a little more than playing a soundbite of Alice In Chains 'Rooster' to get me emotionally into a characters past. Which makes me wonder: what's "Mc G" up to these days? Exactly! There's a reason why!
JackBauer
JackBauer - 1/26/2012, 12:08 PM
@Overwatch - What's perverted about a fully clothed woman?
Vital
Vital - 1/26/2012, 12:42 PM
Monkey, your opinions are terrible. Eeek.
Vital
Vital - 1/26/2012, 12:44 PM
More so on the first page.
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