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"Terminator (series)" redirects here. For the television series, see Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Terminator franchise
Created byJames Cameron
Original workThe Terminator
Print publications
Novel(s)Novelizations
Infiltrator trilogy
The New John Connor Chronicles
ComicsNOW Comics
Dark Horse Comics
Malibu
Beckett
Dynamite Entertainment
Films and television
Film(s)The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Television seriesTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Games
Video game(s)Terminator video games

The Terminator series is a franchise encompassing a series of science fiction films and ancillary media concerning battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Tech-Com forces and the rest of the human race. Skynet's most well-known products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models, such as the original "Terminator" character, portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in three films.

Films

The Terminator

Main article: The Terminator

The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn. It is the first work in the Terminator franchise. In the film, machines take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificially intelligent computer Skynet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate humanity, it develops cyborg assassins called Terminators that carry the outward appearance of humans. A man named John Connor starts the Tech-Com resistance to defeat them and free humanity. With a human victory imminent, the machines' only choice is to send a terminator back in time to kill John's mother, Sarah, before he is born, preventing the resistance from ever being founded. With the fate of humanity at stake, John sends soldier Kyle Reese back to protect his mother and ensure his own existence.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Main article: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the 1991 sequel to the original Terminator film, written, directed, and produced by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Robert Patrick. After the machines failed to prevent John Connor from being born, they try again, this time attempting to kill him as a child with a more advanced terminator, the T-1000. As before, John sends back a protector for his younger self, a reprogrammed Terminator, identical to the one from the previous film. After ten years of preparing for the future war, Sarah decides to use the same tactics the machines used on her: prevent Skynet from being invented by destroying Cyberdyne Systems before they create it.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Main article: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the 2003 sequel to Terminator 2, directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. As a result of the destruction of Cyberdyne at the end of T2, the Skynet takeover has been postponed, not averted. In a last attempt to ensure a machine victory, a new terminator, the T-X, is sent back to kill as many lieutenants as possible, including John Connor and his future wife Kate. After the future Connor is terminated by an identical model to his previous protector, Kate reprograms it and sends it back to save them both from the T-X.

Terminator Salvation

Main article: Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation is the upcoming fourth installment to the Terminator film series, scheduled to be released on May 22 2009.[1] It was written by Jonathan Nolan, Anthony E. Zuiker, Shawn Ryan, and Paul Haggis, directed by McG,[2] and stars Christian Bale as John Connor.[3] After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, John struggles to become the leader, but in this future, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington, who was personally recommended by James Cameron[4]) has somehow altered it, and the T-800 (Roland Kickinger with Arnold Schwarzenegger's face rumored to be mapped onto his physique[5]) is coming online sooner than expected. The film will also center on Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin[6]) and how he became who he was in the first film.

Planned sequels

Director McG has announced that Terminator Salvation is the first of a new trilogy to revive the franchise, with both main actor Christian Bale and writer Jonathan Nolan signed up for two more films.[7] Due to generally positive reception to preview footage of the film, the Halcyon Company chose to develop a sequel in December 2008 for release in 2011. The producers mentioned the Middle East as a possible shooting location.[8]

McG said the time displacement equipment and the T-1000 will be reintroduced in the fifth film: "I like the idea and the perspective for the next picture that you meet Robert Patrick the way he looks today, and he's a scientist that's working on, you know, improving cell replication so we can stay healthier and we can cure diabetes and do all these things that sound like good ideas, and to once again live as idealized expressions as ourselves. So imagine seeing a 60-year-old Robert Patrick and knowing 'holy shit' that's going to be the T-1000..."[9][10]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Main article: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

A television series titled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles airs on the FOX network, with Lena Headey as Sarah Connor and Thomas Dekker as John Connor. The series, created by Josh Friedman, centers on Sarah and John after Terminator 2 as they try to "live under the radar" after the explosion at Cyberdyne. Summer Glau plays a female Terminator protecting the Connors. Executive producer James Middleton confirmed in Variety that the series will contain a link to Terminator 4.[11] However, McG later clarified in an interview that show creator Josh Friedman "was the first to jump on and say we can't chase their story threads."[12]

Recurring cast and characters

Character Media
The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Terminator Salvation
The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger   Roland Kickinger
Kyle Reese Michael Biehn1     Jonathan Jackson2 Anton Yelchin
Sarah Connor Linda Hamilton   Lena Headey Linda Hamilton (voice over narration)
Peter Silberman Earl Boen Bruce Davison3  
John Connor   Edward Furlong4 Nick Stahl Thomas Dekker5 Christian Bale
T-1000   Robert Patrick   Shirley Manson  
Miles Dyson   Joe Morton   Phil Morris6  
Tarissa Dyson   S. Epatha Merkerson   Charlayne Woodard  
Kate Brewster   Claire Danes   Bryce Dallas Howard
T-X   Kristanna Loken  
Cameron   Summer Glau  

Template:Fnb A vision of Reese appears only in the extended cut of T2.

Template:Fnb Skyler Gisondo portrays an eight-year-old Derek Reese and another young actor, who is uncredited, plays a four-year-old Kyle Reese on the episode "What He Beheld".

Template:Fnb He is credited as Dr. Silverman in the series but referred to as Silberman by the characters and in writing.

Template:Fnb Michael Edwards plays an older John Connor in a brief, nonspeaking role, and Linda Hamilton's real-life son plays John Connor as a child in a dream in T2.

Template:Fnb John DeVito plays a younger John Connor in a brief, nonspeaking role on the flashback scene of the episode "Queen's Gambit".

Template:Fnb Miles Dyson only appears in a photograph in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, where he is portrayed by Phil Morris

Template:Fnb Ryan Kelley plays a fifteen-year-old Derek Reese on "What He Beheld" and another young actor, who is uncredited, as an eleven year old Derek on the same episode.

Reception

Critical reaction

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic Yahoo! Movies
Overall Cream of the Crop
The Terminator 100% (34 reviews)[13] N/A (3 reviews)[14] 84% (11 reviews)[15] A- (5 reviews)[16]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 100% (34 reviews)[17] 100% (7 reviews)[18] 69% (17 reviews)[19] B+ (5 reviews)[20]
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 70% (189 reviews)[21] 58% (36 reviews)[22] 66% (41 reviews)[23] B- (15 reviews)[24]

Other media

There have been several book series and graphic novels associated with the Terminator series. The films have been novelized as well.

Books

Stirling, Blackford and Allston's individual series are of separate continuity. Tiedemann's novel follows on from Blackford's.

Comics and graphic novels

In 1988, NOW Comics published an ongoing series with John Connor as the main character in 2029, after sending Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect his mother. The seventeen issue series was followed by two limited series.[25][26][27]

Dark Horse Comics acquired the rights in 1990 and published The Terminator (titled Tempest in trade paperbacks to distinguish itself), where a group of human soldiers and four Terminators come to the present, to respectively kill or protect the developers of Skynet. One of the Terminators is Dudley, a human doctor with cybernetic implants, and he betrays his group as he feels he can make a difference in the past.[28] In the following year's sequel Secondary Objectives, the surviving Terminator leader, C890.L, is reprogrammed to destroy another Terminator sent to aid him and kill Sarah Connor.[29] In the immediate follow-up The Enemy Within, C890.L rebuilds and modifies himself to become more dangerous than ever, while a team of human assassins attempt to return to the past and kill a Skynet developer.[30] The 1992 Endgame concludes this arc, with human colonel Mary Randall, having lost Dudley and her soldiers in the final battle with C890.L, protecting Sarah Connor as she goes into labor. Sarah gives birth to a girl named Jane, whose future leadership means Skynet is quickly defeated and never develops time travel.[31]

Dark Horse published a 1992 one-shot written by James Dale Robinson and drawn by Matt Wagner. It followed a female Terminator and a resistance fighter battling for the life of another Sarah Connor: Sarah Lang, who has married artist Michael Connor and intends to kill him for his money.[32] The following year they published the limited series Hunters and Killers, set during the war, where special Terminators with ceramic skeletons and genuine organs are created to impersonate leaders in the Russian resistance.[33] Another limited series was published in 1998, focusing on the misadventures of two malfunctioning Terminators in Death Valley. They kill a man named Ken Norden, mistaking his wife Sara and son Jon for the Connors.[34] This set up the following year's comic The Dark Years, where Jon Norden fights alongside John Connor in 2030. In The Dark Years, another Terminator is sent to eliminate John and his mother in 1999.[35]

Terminators have crossed over with RoboCop, Superman and Alien vs. Predator. In the 1992 RoboCop versus The Terminator and 2000 Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future, the heroes must prevent the war ravaged future.[36][37] In 2000 Dark Horse also published Alien versus Predator versus The Terminator, where Skynet, who went dormant after Connor defeated them, have returned and are creating an Alien-Terminator hybrid. The Ellen Ripley clone (from Alien Resurrection) and the Predators join forces to stop them.[38]

Malibu Comics published twin series in 1995. One was a sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, where Sarah and John encounter two T-800s and a female T-1000. The other was a prequel exploring how Connor sent Reese and the T-800 back in time, and the creation of the T-1000 (which took its default appearance from a captive soldier). The conclusions of both series were published in one issue.[39][40]

Beckett Comics published three series to promote Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, each consisting of two issues.[41][42][43]

The 2005 Terminator 2: Infinity comic book series by Dynamite Entertainment (a sequel to Rise of the Machines) depicts Connor in July 17 2009. Kate Brewster died the year before, and he is aided by a future Terminator named Uncle Bob. They create a homing signal to bring together other human survivors, beginning the resistance. The series is also tied-in to another one of Dynamite's publications, Painkiller Jane, for two issues.[44] Dynamite are releasing a sequel Terminator: Revolution and at all the same time IDW Publishing are releasing a Salvation tie-in, possible because the former is based on the Terminator 2 license.[45]

Games

See also: List of Terminator computer and video games

The franchise has been expanded with many computer and video games and other game types, where many are concerned mainly with the future war, rather than the time travel.

Attractions

References

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  2. ^ Kit, Borys (2008-04-14). "Bale to segue from 'Dark Knight' to 'Terminator'". Reuters.
  3. ^ Serpe, Gina (2007-12-02). "Bale Goes Batty For Terminator 4". E! News. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  4. ^ Fleming, Michael (2008-02-12). "Worthington to star in 'Terminator'". Variety. Retrieved 2008-04-14. Worthington will play the role of Marcus, a central figure in a three-picture arc that begins after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity... {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Ben Forrest (2008-07-16). "'Terminator' actor visits Goderich area". Clinton News-Record. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
  6. ^ Goldstein, Gregg (2008-03-19). "Yelchin finds 'Salvation'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  7. ^ David Bentley (20 November 2008). "Terminator Salvation: Director reveals trilogy plans". Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  8. ^ Ali Jafaar (2008-12-14). "Fifth Terminator film in the works". Variety. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  9. ^ Jake Rico (2009-01-12). "Terminator Salvation - First Review". ShowBizCafe.com. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  10. ^ Randy Jennings (2009-02-28). "Wonder Con T4 Exclusive: CG Arnold Approved! McG Shares Big Exclusives with TheArnoldFans!". TheArnoldFans.com. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
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  16. ^ "The Terminator - Critics Reviews". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
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  25. ^ The Terminator, no. 1-17 (1988-1989). NOW Comics.
  26. ^ Ron Fortier (w), Alex Ross (p). Terminator: The Burning Earth, no. 1-5 (March – July 1990). NOW Comics.
  27. ^ Terminator: All My Futures Past, no. 1-2 (1990). NOW Comics.
  28. ^ John Arcudi (w), Chris Warner (p). The Terminator, no. 4 issues (August to November 1990). Dark Horse Comics.
  29. ^ James Dale Robinson (w), Paul Gulacy (p). The Terminator: Secondary Objectives, no. 4 issues (July to October 1991). Dark Horse Comics.
  30. ^ Ian Edginton (w), Vincent Giarrano (a). The Terminator: The Enemy Within, no. 4 issues (November 1991 to February 1992). Dark Horse Comics.
  31. ^ James Dale Robinson (w), Jackson Guice (p). The Terminator: Endgame, no. 3 issues (September to November 1992). Dark Horse Comics.
  32. ^ James Dale Robinson (w), Matt Wagner (a). The Terminator (July 1991). Dark Horse Comics.
  33. ^ "The Terminator: Hunters and Killers". No. 3 issues. Dark Horse Comics. March to May 1992. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |penciller= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |writer= ignored (help)
  34. ^ Alan Grant (w), [[Guy Davis (comics)|]] (a). The Terminator: Death Valley, no. 5 issues (August to December 1998). Dark Horse Comics.
  35. ^ Alan Grant (w), Mel Rubi, Trevor McCarthy (p). The Terminator: The Dark Years, no. 1-4 (September to December 1999). Dark Horse Comics.
  36. ^ Frank Miller (w), Walt Simonson (a). RoboCop versus The Terminator, no. 4 issues (May to August 1992). Dark Horse Comics.
  37. ^ Alan Grant (w), Steve Pugh (p). Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future, no. 4 issues (January to March 2000). Dark Horse Comics.
  38. ^ Mark Schultz (w), Mel Rubi (p). Alien versus Predator versus The Terminator, no. 4 issues (April to July 2000). Dark Horse Comics.
  39. ^ Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Cybernetic Dawn, no. 1-5 (November 1995 to February 1996, April 1996). Malibu Comics.
  40. ^ Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Nuclear Twilight, no. 1-5 (November 1995 to February 1996, April 1996). Malibu Comics.
  41. ^ Ivan Brandon (w), Goran Parlov (p). Terminator 3: Before the Rise, no. 2 issues (July and August 2003). Beckett Comics.
  42. ^ Miles Gunter (w), Mike Hawthone (p). Terminator 3: Eyes of the Rise, no. 2 issues (September and October 2003). Beckett Comics.
  43. ^ Miles Gunter (w), Kieron Dwyer (p). Terminator 3: Fragmented, no. 2 issues (November and December 2003). Beckett Comics.
  44. ^ Simon Furman (w). Terminator 2: Infinity, no. 1-5 (July-November 2005). Dynamite Entertainment.
  45. ^ Furman on Making Dynamite's Terminator Revolutionary, Comic Book Resources, October 20, 2008

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