8 points

Destroy it and his legacy?

Why?

Because its the industry standard. Don’t question it.

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A video game. Terminator crossed with Helldivers, set on a big open battlefield in the future.

The resistance is controlled by the players, AI controls the machines. Players can conquer time machines to go back in time. There they clear small side missions to change the battlefield in the future.

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Okay wait a second this is pretty huge.

Take your idea, incorporate a StarCraft element in terms of enemy numbers. Succeeding in a back in time event wipes put a portion of current time enemies, but failing on adds more of them or wipes out part of your team (maybe the members from back in time don’t come back for the rest of the round)

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Yea. that is pretty much what I had in mind. A huge persistent battlefield with an ever changing frontline. Players who fail the time travel missions lose their character, but succeeding sents equipment or units to the future or hinders Skynet in some way.

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2 points

Really neat idea. Would be cool to see it implemented

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This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while.

Terminator 2. First movie plays out exactly the same. Second one starts at night. We see Arnie S. walking through a devastated urban landscape. He pauses outside a particularly shabby looking hovel, then bursts in and machine guns everyone inside. In the background we see a TV set. It’s giving a foreign language news report of the massacre at a Los Angeles police station. The sketch of the suspect is [naturally] Arnie.

The Arnie we see is a CIA black ops assassin known as ‘The Terminator.’ When his handlers pick him up they drug him and put him on a plane to LA. We find out that the upper levels have decided that they need to throw him under the bus rather than risk having the press and Congress find out that they’ve been using him for years. They know he couldn’t have been the one who killed all the cops, but they can’t risk someone who knows him identifying him.

Meanwhile, the cyborg hand has crawled away from the scene. It has most the information of the main computer and can take over almost any advanced machine. It can’t, for example, take over a 1950’s car with no onboard computer, but a modern Tesla would be completely taken over.

We also have the daughter of the Paul Winfeild character. She’s a police detective in her own right, and is investigating what happened to her father. She knows that Sarah Connor is somehow involved. Call her “Pam” because if they’d made the movie in the 1980’s Pam Grier would have been perfect.

So, you’ve got Pam chasing Sarah and Arnie [who escapes as soon as his plane lands in LA] while the hand is hidden in a computer server farm. The hand is monitoring the internet and radio, and can control things like helicopters.

Details to follow…

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9 points

I let the guys from red letter media write the script and then let Eli Roth direct it.

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So your plan is to kill the franchise so hard that nobody will ever want to touch it again? I like it.

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Rich Evans gets to play a guy in the beginning of the movie who gets killed by a Terminator: “Oh my gODDDddd.” Then the Terminator impersonates him while going on a killing spree.

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All of the modern films keep bringing the Terminator forward in time, which often ends up being lame. I think we strip away most of the future nonsense. Skynet has decided the Connors bloodline in 1984 is too powerful, so they send a Terminator back to 1884 to try and cut it off at an earlier date. The Terminator has to fight cowboys in the American West.

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Predator (Prey) did something similar and it was fucking awesome

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That’s basically what was in my mind. I think doing a sci-fi action movie set in the past is criminally underdone.

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But due to the Butterfly Effect, going back in time that far might prevent Skynet from happening as well.

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I think one of the themes of modern Terminator films is that Skynet is kinda inevitable, so in typical Hollywood fashion we just won’t care about it.

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4 points

Cowboys and AI-liens

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