TERMINATOR 3 is now moving faster

Harry here... Now I'm sure most of y'all have been seeing the insane gobs of money that seem to be spilling all over the place in the financing of TERMINATOR 3.

All I know is this. I like Jonathan Mostow. I dig his films and the vibe they give off. I am very much interested to see what he can do with a film of this scale. But the draft prior to his signing was about as bad as that David Hayter HULK draft. There was a loose story there that had potential, but overall it was a mess. Now on HULK we know that Ang Lee and his collaborator James Schamus have been rebuilding it fairly drastically. I've also heard the same thing about Jonathan and his team.

Now, I'm always a bit suspicious about films, that decide to right up front to scream at you their budget.... It is as if they are saying, "This is going to be greatest movie ever because we're spending this much money and no one has ever spent that much money before so it is going to be HUGER THAN ANYTHING EVER!!!!"

Now there are films... Scripts sitting around Hollywood... very few... My favorite being Michael France's original FANTASTIC FOUR draft, which call out to be financed at insane money levels. To just be able to get the words on the screen. Not to pay the producers, the gigantic 8 figure salaries of aging stars... But to build things, innovate effects, to really do what we have never seen before.

With TERMINATOR 3, the early draft simply had no reason to exist. Do we ever need to see yet another super-special robot sent back in time to protect the sanctity of John Connor? Not really... The only TERMINATOR film that I'm vaguely interested in is about the Future War. Man's rise against the Machines. How they were led from the edge of the abyss to reclaim humanity. I want to see the battlefields, the struggles, the fights, the fears as Terminators infiltrate and kill... That horrifying apocalyptic future. And how we as a civilization conquered it.

For me... That's the story. That's the film to throw $180 Million Dollars at, if ya just had to make a 3rd Terminator flick.

However, this film is moving forward. They seem to have the money, they seem to be happy with the script... and now they seem to be wanting the world to know they are up to doing it. Well, bring it on Mostow... Kick our collective asses hard!

Don't pull the punches and make our jaws drop and break against the sticky theater floor. I double dog dare ya. Hehehe...