Hannover House and Red Bear to Develop "Terminator 3000"

[Srelex]

NEW YORK, NY, Aug 12, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Hannover House, the entertainment distribution division of Target Development Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: TDGI) (http://www.HannoverHouse.com), has entered into a feature film development venture with Vancouver-based Red Bear Entertainment, for "Terminator 3000," envisioned as a $70-million dollar budgeted, 3-D animated feature film based on the characters and situations introduced in the original "Terminator" feature. Hannover House C.E.O. Eric Parkinson previously served as C.E.O. of Hemdale Home Video, Inc. and Hemdale Communications, Inc., and handled the distribution of the original "Terminator" feature.

Story details for "Terminator 3000" are being kept under close wraps, but the writers and production team have a stated goal of minimizing violence in order to obtain a PG-13 level of material.

Hemdale produced and distributed director James Cameron's original "Terminator" feature, but released the sequel rights in 1990 to Carolco, which later transferred the rights to ultimately end up under the control of Halcyon Media. Santa Barbara based Pacificor, LLC prevailed in the most recent auction and transfer of rights to the franchise in January, and retains approval and licensing authority over the proposed "Terminator 3000" project.

Hannover House and Red Bear Entertainment will release details of the production timing, financing and principal production personnel later this year, in advance of a proposed January, 2011 start.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hannov ... _news_stmp

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[Anguirus]

Nothing good will come of this.

[Cykeisme]

It's obvious what convinced them that this might actually be a good idea.

Perhaps they should release a season of twenty cel animated micro-episodes first, followed by the CGI series a while later?
Maybe John Connor can have a plucky, never-mentioned-before padawan, too!


Okay, to be honest, this might actually be a good idea if James Cameron was involved, but he's not.

[The Romulan Republic]

It's obvious what convinced them that this might actually be a good idea.

Perhaps they should release a season of twenty cel animated micro-episodes first, followed by the CGI series a while later?
Maybe John Connor can have a plucky, never-mentioned-before padawan, too!


Okay, to be honest, this might actually be a good idea if James Cameron was involved, but he's not.

Speaking of Clone Wars, I fully expected that series to suck ass when it started. But you know what? I like it.

So I'll give these guys the benefit of the doubt. At least until I know more than the name of the project and that its being made.

Edit: well, there is the "minimizing violence" part. And the refusal to minimize violence is a big part of why Clone Wars is good. Then again, its all relative. If "PG 13" is what they're aiming for, that's okay.

[Drooling Iguana]

I'm taking the same stance on this as I take on all the other attempts to continue the Terminator franchise: T2 ended the series about as definitively as possible, so there's no real way for a new entry in the series to harm the original story, as that story is already finished. If it's good, then great, and if it's not then it can simply be ignored.

[Cykeisme]

To clarify, I think the Clone Wars series is decent, despite some freedoms taken with plot continuity. It's not bad at all.

My points were that the current owners of the Terminators franchi$e are just jumping on the bandwagon... that, and the fact that they have absolutely no ties to what orignally made the franchise great in the first place (or the first two installments of the franchise, anyway).

[Peptuck]

The only good Terminator entry after T2 was SCC, and that was because they were cutting as close to Cameron's original vision as possible.

This one has me a bit leery, but I'm hopefully optimistic.

[Srelex]

For those who think this sounds shitty, this may lift your spirits:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/termina ... d-feature/