You have to hand it to Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800. He promised he'd be back, and it seems the fleshy heroes and robotic villains of the Terminator franchise will never stay down for good. There's finally some real progress on Terminator 5, which could begin filming early next ear and see Schwarzenegger reprise his iconic role.
But if you're hoping for a direct follow-up to the fourth movie, Terminator Salvation, there's still hope. One of the bigger announcements to come from SDCC today was the news that Dark Horse are moving forward with their latest Terminator project. Titled Terminator: The Final Battle, this 12-issue maxi-series picks up where Salvation left off and explores the continued evolution of Skynet and its Terminators as the war with John Connor's Resistance escalates.
Dark Horse's previous batch of Terminator mini-series, The Terminator: 2029 and The Terminator: 1984, were very well received, thanks in large part to the talented creative team. Luckily, the publisher has nabbed an impressive team for The Final Battle as well. The series will be penned by J. Michael Straczynski (who was also announced as the writer of Dynamite's Twilight Zone series today) and drawn by Pete Woods (recently of DC's Legion of Super-Heroes and Justice League of America's Vibe comics).
CBR interviewed Straczynski about the project, where he noted his desire specifically to explore the wartorn future of the Terminator universe. "The story that I've always wanted to see visualized, and that I think other fans of the movies have eagerly anticipated, is the battle that set all of the movies into motion: the assault on Skynet, the Terminators going through and what happens afterward on both sides of the timeline. So the events weave in and out of the tapestry of the Terminator, showing what we know or what we think we know, then turning the camera around to show us that what we thought we knew may not be exactly what happens. The only timeline in which you could set that story would be after Salvation."
Straczynski also talked at length about his portrayal of Skynet and the dichotomy between man and machine in the series. "If you're Skynet, and you know that you are on the cusp of being defeated by humans, because despite your all your technology and your science and your brains humans are simply better at killing than you are -- maybe you look to recruit another mind into the equation. Maybe you look into history a bit and you find one of the most ruthless serial killers of the 20th century, a human who hunts humans...and integrate that mind, that person, into the architecture you've created. In that way, the story becomes about Skynet, but also about who and what we are as a species. Which is what always set this series of movies apart from the imitators: it's not just about machines, it's about what those machines have to say about us."
Dark Horse hasn't given a specific release date for the series yet. Straczynski said he wants to complete as much of the project as possible before soliciting the first issue. But with Woods wrapping up work on the first issue, hopefully it won't be too long until The Final Battle kicks off.
Head over to CBR for more of Straczynski's take on a post-Salvation Terminator and a look at Wood's interior art for issue #1.
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