The 4th Terminator - Called Salvation to be released

[SUBMAN1]

FInially, we get a glimsp of the future after the nukes!

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Terminator Salvation is go for May 2009 release

New Mexico to host 'post-apocalyptic future'

By Lester Haines (http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2008/02/28/terminator_release_date/) → More by this author (http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Lester%20Haines)
Published Thursday 28th February 2008 09:28 GMT


The fourth Terminator movie - Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins - will hit cinemas on 22 May 2009, the makers have announced.


Shooting on the McG-helmed film, which stars Christian Bale as rebel leader John Connor, will begin in May at Albuquerque Studios in New Mexico. It's the first of a planned trilogy which promises to "reinvent the cyborg saga", as production company Halcyon put it.


Halcyon co-CEO Derek Anderson teased (http://www.subsim.com/2007/10/10/terminator_salvation/) back in October: "This is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind."


Of the location, McG said in a statement this week that New Mexico "represented an arid Western United States in a post-apocalyptic future", adding: "This is the story of a man's search for belief in himself and his fellow man. It's a long journey and the landscape plays a critical role."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/28/terminator_release_date/

[Tchocky]

Christian Bale!

One of the best actors out there is playing.....John Connor

THis could be really good..

*waits*

[Konovalov]

Christian Bale!

One of the best actors out there is playing.....John Connor

THis could be really good..

*waits*

Christian Bale. Couldn't agree more Tchock. :yep: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. :rock:

I sooo hope this film eventuates and delivers plenty of cyborg action in the future and more battle scenes. Fingies crossed. :up:

[XabbaRus]

And the best bit, Arney isn't in it.

Unless he is called the geriactrinator.

[Oberon]

Vhere iz Sarah Connor?!

[SUBMAN1]

As we wait in anticipation, worry about real robot killers intensifies!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080227/tts-technology-robots-military-c1b2fc3_1.html

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[Kapitan_Phillips]

And the best bit, Arney isn't in it.

Unless he is called the geriactrinator.


..what? Terminator is crap without Arnold. Thats like remaking Airwolf without a helicopter :shifty:

[SUBMAN1]

And the best bit, Arney isn't in it.

Unless he is called the geriactrinator.I thought he was making small appearances? Anyway, most of the machines probably won't have a living tissue over an exoskeleton core.

I like the fact that they move on with different actors and advance the story. Same old same old is just that - old. This will be new and refreshing for once.

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[Syxx_Killer]

It'll be interesting to see what the movie is like next year. Not having Arnie in it isn't that big of a deal to me. Like they said in T3 (about Connor's death), if Connor is killed in T4, I hope it is an Arnie bot that terminates him.

I have been enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles a lot. They really put a lot of thought into that series.

[SUBMAN1]

...I have been enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles a lot. They really put a lot of thought into that series.I have all of them so far - recorded them and dumped them on my media server. I have yet to watch one. SO I take it you give it a thumbs up?

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[Blacklight]

All I'm saying, is that if Fox decides to cancel "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles" after this season, I'm going to be VERY VERY ticked off. :stare:

[3Jane]

It can't be any worse than the last dire offering. As with the matrix, as with star wars, trying to recapture the formula is always risky and more often than not doesn't work. They should know when to stop.

[SUBMAN1]

Its a bit ironic that the same day this news is released, is the same day this guy releases his news:

Personally, I think he is an idiot.

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Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert


By Marlowe Hood AFP - Wednesday, February 27 06:54 amPARIS (AFP) - Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.


"They pose a threat to humanity," said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain's Royal United Services Institute.


Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world -- from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones -- can already identify and lock onto targets without human help.


There are more than 4,000 US military robots on the ground in Iraq, as well as unmanned aircraft that have clocked hundreds of thousands of flight hours.

The first three armed combat robots fitted with large-caliber machine guns deployed to Iraq last summer, manufactured by US arms maker Foster-Miller, proved so successful that 80 more are on order, said Sharkey.


But up to now, a human hand has always been required to push the button or pull the trigger.


It we are not careful, he said, that could change.


Military leaders "are quite clear that they want autonomous robots as soon as possible, because they are more cost-effective and give a risk-free war," he said.

Several countries, led by the United States, have already invested heavily in robot warriors developed for use on the battlefield.


South Korea and Israel both deploy armed robot border guards, while China, India (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/india.html), Russia (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/russia.html) and Britain have all increased the use of military robots.


Washington plans to spend four billion dollars by 2010 on unmanned technology (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/technology.html) systems, with total spending expected rise to 24 billion, according to the Department of Defense's Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2007-2032, released in December.


James Canton, an expert on technology innovation and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, predicts that deployment within a decade of detachments that will include 150 soldiers and 2,000 robots.


The use of such devices by terrorists should be a serious concern, said Sharkey.
Captured robots would not be difficult to reverse engineer, and could easily replace suicide bombers as the weapon-of-choice. "I don't know why that has not happened already," he said.


But even more worrisome, he continued, is the subtle progression from the semi-autonomous military robots deployed today to fully independent killing machines.


"I have worked in artificial intelligence for decades, and the idea of a robot making decisions about human termination terrifies me," Sharkey said.


Ronald Arkin of Georgia Institute of Technology (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/technology.html), who has worked closely with the US military on robotics, agrees that the shift towards autonomy will be gradual.


But he is not convinced that robots don't have a place on the front line.


"Robotics systems may have the potential to out-perform humans from a perspective of the laws of war and the rules of engagement," he told a conference on technology in warfare at Stanford University last month.


The sensors of intelligent machines, he argued, may ultimately be better equipped to understand an environment and to process information. "And there are no emotions that can cloud judgement, such as anger," he added.


Nor is there any inherent right to self-defence.


For now, however, there remain several barriers to the creation and deployment of Terminator-like killing machines.


Some are technical. Teaching a computer-driven machine -- even an intelligent one -- how to distinguish between civilians and combatants, or how to gauge a proportional response as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, is simply beyond the reach of artificial intelligence today.


But even if technical barriers are overcome, the prospect of armies increasingly dependent on remotely-controlled or autonomous robots raises a host of ethical issues that have barely been addressed.


Arkin points out that the US Department of Defense's 230 billion dollar Future Combat Systems programme -- the largest military contract in US history -- provides for three classes of aerial and three land-based robotics systems.


"But nowhere is there any consideration of the ethical implications of the weaponisation of these systems," he said.


For Sharkey, the best solution may be an outright ban on autonomous weapons systems. "We have to say where we want to draw the line and what we want to do -- and then get an international agreement," he said.

[Blacklight]

That sounds almost like it may be connected with that "Terminator" Alternate Reality Game that's going on now.

[darius359au]

Ive been waiting to see the war against skynet since the first movie ,hopefully this one will be as full on as the glimpses of the battle's looked like in all the movies.
The Sarah Connor Chronicle's are a pretty good filler while we wait for the movie ;):up:

[STEED]

So dose this film bring the story full circle? Dose John Connor storm Skynet and send Kyle Reese and two modified Arnie Terminators back in time?

[Syxx_Killer]

...I have been enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles a lot. They really put a lot of thought into that series.I have all of them so far - recorded them and dumped them on my media server. I have yet to watch one. SO I take it you give it a thumbs up?

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I give it two resounding thumbs up! :up::up: At first I was kind of skeptical. I was unsure what to think about the first episode, but I continued to watch week after week. The show has got a lot better and I enjoy it a lot. They kind of ignore the T3 movie (Which is ok, I didn't really like it. I think they should have let it be after T2.). The plot takes place a couple years after the events of T2. If you never saw the first two Terminator movies, a lot from the series probably won't make sense. They tie into the first two movies quite a bit. Monday is the two hour season finale. I hope they have a second season. This is probably one of my new favorite shows. :rock:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

So dose this film bring the story full circle? Dose John Connor storm Skynet and send Kyle Reese and two modified Arnie Terminators back in time?

I want the T-1000 to make a cameo :D

http://www.talkingnfl.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/t-1000.gif


He made a cameo appearance in Last Action Hero, I believe. Schwarzenegger and the kid he's supposed to be rescuing were rushing into a shopping center or some kind, and this guy ^ walked past them wearing that police outfit and looking like he did in T2. I only noticed it because Arnold played up to it and stared at him for a while like "O_O?"

<EDIT> Wiki confirmed:

Robert Patrick has cameos in several films as the T-1000 in police disguise, including Last Action Hero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero), also a Schwarzenegger film, and Wayne's World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_%28film%29), where he pulls Wayne over and asks if he has seen John Connor.