Cancelled Terminator Sequels Would Have Revealed Skynet Origin

[Nevilledog]

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/terminator-genisys-skynet-details-sequels-cancelled-plot-story-revealed/

In 2015, Terminator Genisys was meant to revive interest in the franchise, but with that film being a financial and critical disappointment, its direct sequels were scrapped, with co-writer Patrick Lussier recently detailing what he had hoped to explore in its sequels, which would have included chronicling the origins of Skynet. The prominence of time travel in the franchise allows its sequels to jump forward and backward to different points in the series, with Genisys marking the first entry into the series since 2009's Terminator Salvation, allowing last year's Terminator: Dark Fate to avoid directly connecting to Genisys, though this doesn't rule out another sequel once again embracing time travel to allow these concepts to be explored.

“We wrote like two drafts of the next one, the direct sequel, and had an outline for the third one, what that would be, that answered all the questions that were presented in Genisys and brought it back around and closed it all off,” Lussier shared with The Production Meeting Podcast.

The filmmaker noted that Matt Smith's character, who was introduced in the film, would have played a larger part in the franchise's future.

"They dealt more with how the future and where Skynet comes from and what that sort of time loop is," Lussier detailed. "You know, the Matt Smith character. It became much more of a focus, so they were probably a little trippier and stood away from T2 a little more. Started having their own identity. There’s sort of an interesting escaping the fatalistic part of it, how it opened was very cool… who knows? Maybe one day they’ll release it as a comic or something.”

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[cos dem]

1. I thought it was the Brits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I thought that was already covered

in T3? It's too bad that all of the movies after T2 were pretty lackluster/forgettable

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. I kinda enjoyed Terminator Salvation

Simply due to it being set during the future war for a change.

[Amishman]

3. given all the ret-cons and reboots in major movie franchises, its hard to care

they'd probably just reboot it a few years later with a different origin.