Terminator 4

According to our friends at Aint It Cool News and
IMDB, Director Jonathan Mostow has signed on to make Terminator 4 (official title pending).

Mosotow's credits include Terminator 3:Rise of the Macines and U-571. T-4 was written by John D. Brancato and Micael Ferris. Brancatos previous credits include T-3 and the abomination that was Cat Woman, although getting Halle Berry to prance around in black leather is something of an achievement. Ferris's writing credits include Catwoman and T-3 along with The Net. So these three should be quite used to eachother by now.

It's unlcear is Arnold will be returning but the location is apparently Australia.

I loved the original Terminator, it's one of the best sci-fi films ever. The second was also a great film, the third was OK. Something was missing from that one and clearly that something is James Cameron. It's dissapointing to see a number 4 announced with Cameron's name not attached to it. At this point in the franchises existence it's obvious that special effects and pure action will not be enough to maintain it--there's a story line that needs to continue evolving and the third one seemed like just a visual treatment of a story we had already heard in previous films. Something different needs to be done.

The last one ended with Armageddon beginning as an attempt to stop Skynet from taking over completely failed. So the danger is that 4 will be turned into nothing more than an effects-driven film that chronicles the war and some machine vs. human battles; that would be unfortunate since there's so much more that could be done. It would be another sort of recap of a story we've been told several times now. The Terminator mythos needs to evolve now, needs to be freshened up. I hope this movie doesn't prove to be the one-too-many that tarnishes the original.