Terminator 4! - Page 5

Cali Korleone · 07-29-2008, 04:43 PM

Possible spoiler.

There is a character named Serena in T4. She is played by that chick in Fight Club. In some of the Terminator novels the character named Serena is a human terminator. She is a human, cloned by Skynet, and programmed/brainwashed to follow it's orders. Her model is I-950. She is was the next step in infiltration models. Because she is human, she can go undetected by scanners and dogs.

**DuckyBubbles05** · 07-29-2008, 04:45 PM

Saw a preview during the Dark Knight.... looks ok

Stinky · 08-05-2008, 12:26 PM

Con footage revealed, sort of - The Terminator Files

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And if that wasn't enough to win over this toughest of crowds, he then went on to reveal an extended three minute trailer, which set fans screaming till Empire feared the hall would collapse. There was no CG as the film is only halfway through filming but what we saw as nothing short of jaw-dropping. McTerminator detractors may need to find a new whipping boy because, if what we saw is anything to go by, McG might have knocked this one out of the park.

Teaser spoiler below...

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The future. A barren wasteland with the smoking wreckage of a helicopter.
Radio: "Bravo 10, Bravo 10, is anyone there? Answer please. Come in. Anyone there? How many survivors are there?"
A survivor moves, it's Christian Bale as John Connor.
Connor: "One."
Radio: "Repeat."
Connor: "...ONE!"
Cut to: Bale stepping over the corpse of a terminator.
Cut to: Bale face to face with Sam Worthington's Marcus Wright.
Connor: "If I let you down, you'll kill everyone in this room."
Wright: "Not everyone, just you Connor. Because I don't give a shit about you. I didn't even know your name until two days ago."
Connor: (whispered) "Kill me? We've been at war since before either of us even existed."
Cut to: Marcus Wright standing in a wreckage strewn courtyard.
Wright: "Hey!"
Suddenly weapon fire shatters the silence and bullets begin chewing up the ground around him. Just as it seems he's done for a figure dives out from out of shot and knocks him out of the line of fire. He looks up and it's Antol Yelchin's Kyle Reese.
Reese: "Come with me if you want to live."
We see the barrel of a minigun blazing and a Terminator's feet as it walks towards them, crushing a human skull beneath its weight.
Wright: (echoing Michael Biehn's lines form the first film while talking to Reese) "What day is it? What year?"
Reese: "2018."
Wright: "What happened here?"
Reese: "Judgement day happened."
Cut to: a truck with a snow plough welded to the front crashing through obstacles on a road, a jeep driving through the desert, resistance fighters running across a train track and three humans jumping over a precipice with abseiling ropes attached to them.
Voice: "Go! Go! Go!"
Cut to: the burned face of a T-600, its metal skull showing through the ruin of its flesh.
Cut to: the silhouette of a terminator endoskeleton holding a gun, it's eyes glow red against the darkness.
Cut to: A night shot of Moon Bloodgood's Blair Williams standing outside with her back to us, topless. She turns around, her hands covering her modesty.
Cut to: figures running amidst explosions and gunfire, a figure on a motorbike flying through the air.
Cut to: John Connor and his men inside a bunker. There is a huge cybernetic arm tied to a table – it's about seven feet long and topped with a claw. Connor crouches nest to the claw to study it and the claw comes to life, snapping at the air.
Cut to: A huge metal machine rearing into shot with red eyes and an enormous metal carapace. An inhuman howl fills the air.
Connor: "This is not the future that my mother told me about. Something has changed."
The familiar Terminator beat hammers out.
Kate Connor: "If you saved us once in another future, you can save us in this one."
Cut to: Reese turning to Connor.
Reese: "Who are you?"
Connor: "John Connor!"
Cut to: Bryce Dallas Howard's Kate Connor running toward s the camera and screaming "John!"
Cut to: Connor face to face with Wright again.
Connor: "You tried killing my mother. You killed my father. You will not kill me."
Cut to: A figure covered head to toe in mud and screaming into the night (could be Worthington or Bale – hard to tell).
Cut to: a terminator trapped under the landing strut of a helicopter. A gun barrel lowers to its skull and puts it out of its misery. The camera pans up to reveal John Connor looking decidedly mean.
Cut to: the inside of a building. A huge cybernetic arm crashes through the ceiling and grabs someone, pulling him through the hole in the roof. It's the arm of a harvester, one of the machine's huge man hunters.
Cut to: A terminator being crushed by a falling car.
End title comes up word by word: The. End. Begins.
Cut to: Bale lying prone, clearly in pain with a terminator's hand descending towards his face.
Connor: "You son of a bitch!"
It claws furrows down the front of his face. He screams.

Stinky · 08-05-2008, 12:26 PM

DP

B00STED4V · 08-05-2008, 12:30 PM

Cali Korleone · 08-05-2008, 02:44 PM

Cut to: John Connor and his men inside a bunker. There is a huge cybernetic arm tied to a table – it's about seven feet long and topped with a claw. Connor crouches nest to the claw to study it and the claw comes to life, snapping at the air.
Cut to: A huge metal machine rearing into shot with red eyes and an enormous metal carapace. An inhuman howl fills the air.

T-600R's. I remember those in the comics.

B00STED4V · 08-05-2008, 02:49 PM

Cali Korleone · 08-05-2008, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by OxMox

From what I remember, picture a gorilla looking terminator with no head, eyes in its chest, and claws for hands.

B00STED4V · 08-05-2008, 02:58 PM

oh hell yeah, i remember those!

B00STED4V · 08-05-2008, 03:07 PM

i cant find any pics of them

Cali Korleone · 08-05-2008, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OxMox

i cant find any pics of them

Me either.

Stinky · 08-05-2008, 03:16 PM

Comic-Con: Terminator Salvation (July 27th 2008)

Fuckin ayyyyy!!

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It's also confirmed that the film comes to rest on a cliffhanger, and that "The Dark Knight" co-writer Jonah Nolan has come onboard and done some major rewrites on the script, so much so that he may get sole WGA credit at the end. McG closed the panel with news that the next trailer will be attached to the new James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" on November 7th.

B00STED4V · 08-05-2008, 03:18 PM

that terminator looks like one form the terminator ride at universal. Jonah Nolan has been onboard as a writer since this film was announced...

Cali Korleone · 11-15-2008, 03:56 PM

This should be the ending to the movie.

The original T2 introduction.

EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

Downtown L.A. Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME
LONG LENS the lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of
humanity. In SLOW MOTION they move in herds among the
glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper. Heat
ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is
surreal dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly
to...

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. CITY RUINS - DAY

Same spot as the last shot, but now it is a frozen
landscape in Hell. The cars are stopped in rusted rows,
still bumper to bumper. The skyline of buildings beyond
has been shattered by some unimaginable force like a row
of kicked-down sandcastles. The sky glows, dark as iron.

A freezing wind blows through the desolation, keening with
the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the snow
into drifts, stark white against the charred rubble. Fire
and ice. The image is without color... lifeless as the
moon. A TITLE CARD FADES IN:

LOS ANGELES, AUGUST 11, 2029

ANGLE ON a heap of fire-blackened bones. Skulls identify
them as human. WE BEGIN TO TRACK, revealing beyond the
mound a vast tundra of bones and shattered concrete.
Skulls like eyeless sentinels. The rush hour crowds
burned down in their tracks.
We hear a MAN"S VOICE, gentle, though rich in authority,
and tempered by the pain of watching a world die.

MAN (V.O.)
It all came down on a Tuesday in
September of '99. Pretty normal
day, except for the end of the world
part. Somehow, I don't remember
how, we started calling it Judgment
Day. I was in Argentina that
particular Tuesday. A good place to
be, considering everything alive
north of the equator stopped being
alive...

WE DISSOLVE TO a playground... where intense heat has
half-melted the jungle gym, the blast has warped the swing
set, the merry-go-round has sagged in the firestorm.
Small skulls look accusingly from the snow-drifts. WE
HEAR the distant echo of children's voices... playing and
laughing in the sun. A silly, sing-songy rhyme as WE
TRACK SLOWLY over seared asphalt where the faint
hieroglyphs of hopscotch lines are still visible.

MAN (V.O.)
Afterward it got cold. Real cold.
Nuclear winter they called it. The
few that survived, starved...

CAMERA comes to a rest on a burnt and rusted tricycle...
next to the tiny skull of its owner. A metal foot crushes
the skull like china.

MAN (V.O.)
The few that survived that saw the
Machines rise up... machines of many
types but with one purpose... to
hunt us down and kill us all like a
bunch of cockroaches...

TILT UP, revealing a humanoid machine holding a massive
battle rifle. It looks like a hydraulically-actuated
CHROME SKELETON. A high-tech death figure. It is a
combat chassis, the underlying component, or endoskeleton,
of a Series 800 Terminator. An antipersonnel weapon
controlled by Skynet, a computer which is threatening the
human survivors of the war with final extinction.

The endoskeleton's glowing red eyes compassionlessly sweep
the dead terrain, hunting. Then suddenly snap toward
CAMERA.

ENDOSKELETON POV (DIGITIZED) as it racks a RUNNING FIGURE
across the desolate landscape. Through these eyes we see
the world as a computer-generated image. Symbols and
graphics rapidly appear on the center display as the
machine acquires its target.

THE FIGURE, a young boy in rags, is centerpunched by the
deadly round. He sprawls to a smoking heap on the
blackened sludge.

ANOTHER FIGURE, a guerrilla soldier hefting a battered RPG
rocket launcher.

THE ENDOSKELETON turns, too late. The rocket vaporizes
the top half of it. Its bottom half takes a few uncertain
steps, then topples to the earth.

MAN (V.O.)
Our stubbornness makes no sense to
their machine minds. We fight when
logic tells us we are beaten. But
we have a saying... it's not over
'till its over. It keeps us going.
The war against the Machines is in
its thirty-first year...

The figure quickly takes cover at the approaching SOUND of
ROARING TURBINES. A shadow blackens the sky as a
formation of flying HK (Hunter-Killer) patrol machines
passes overhead.
PAN WITH THEM toward the jagged horizon, beyond which we
see flashes, and hear the distant thunder of a pitched
battle in progress.

CUT TO:

EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY

THE BATTLE. Human troops in desperate combat with the
Machines for possession of the dead Earth. The humans are
a ragtag guerrilla army, made up mostly of troops from
Southern Hemisphere countries... Africans, South
Americans, Australians. The survivors of the nuclear war
between the Northern Hemisphere super-powers. This is the
reality of the post-Apocalyptic world. North of the
equator we all die.

We hear radio chatter in Spanish, interspersed with
Swahili and other African languages. The occasional
Aussie unit can be heard.
The humans use RPG launchers, plasma-pulse battle rifles,
and home-built armored personnel carriers.

Skynet's weapons consist of the massive ground HKs (tank-
like robot weapon-platforms) flying HKs, medium weight
four-legged gun-pods called Centurions, the humanoid
Terminators in various forms (600, 700, and 800 series),
and small, fast-crawling kamikaze units called Silverfish
that look like 5' long chrome centipedes. The Silverfish
snake into gun emplacements and explode.

SEQUENCE OF RAPID CUTS

Explosions!
Beam-weapons firing like searing strobe-lights.
Energy bolts crisscrossing frame.
Hand-launched Stinger missiles blowing an aerial HK out of
the sky.
A Sapper team tries to disable a ground HK. They get
riddled by its rapidly tracking gun turret.

A TEAM OF GUERRILLAS is being overrun by terminator
endoskeletons in the ruins of a building. One by one, the
soldiers fall in desperate hand-to-hand combat. One of
the terminators looms over a wounded soldier, its battle
rifle's barrel swinging down toward the guerrilla's head.
The man stares defiantly into his death. Then...
Suddenly, amazingly, the terminator stops, freezing in
place...

Aerial HKs tilt slowly, out of control, and crash to the
ground. All the terminators stand frozen, unmoving, like
a bunch of toy soldiers.

The sudden silence takes the humans by surprise. They
slowly emerge from their rat-warren emplacements and
approach the frozen machines. We hear a voice speaking
over a radio headset. It is filled with awed emotion.

HEADSET VOICE (O.S.)
... The Colorado Division confirms
that Skynet has been destroyed...
The war is over... I repeat, Skynet
has been destroyed.

CAMERA TRACKS along the soldiers, bleeding, frostbitten,
wrapped in rags... Valley Forge with better weapons.
The wounded soldier in the ruins of the building
cautiously approaches the chrome skeleton before him. He
pushes against its chest with one finger. It topples with
a crash and lies still.
The soldier turns to his comrades with an idiot grin.
Tears are streaming down his face. A mighty cheer goes up
from the men and woman of the Last Army.

INT. TIME DISPLACEMENT COMPLEX - L.A. - LATER

A STAINLESS STEEL ELEVATOR SHAFT, going deep into the
bowels of the earth. Tiny figures stand on an open
platform which descends rapidly, becoming a speck.

ON THE PLATFORM. An imposing man, surrounded by a team of
guerrilla officers stands on the platform as it descends.
He is JOHN CONNOR. Forty-five years old. Chiseled.
Stern. The left side of his face is heavily scarred. An
impressive man, and clearly one forged in the furnace of a
lifetime of war. The voice we heard continues now.

CONNOR (V.O.)
My name is Connor. It's my job to
lead these people. My mother, Sarah,
gave me the job... and she's not
exactly someone you say "no" to. I
wish to God I had. I've sent
thousands to their deaths. But let
me tell you about death in this
world. We piss on the bones of a
billion people. Death's not what it
used to be. If there is a God, his
love and 45 cents will buy you
coffee...

The platform reached its destination. Connor and the
officers step off. Begin moving down a long corridor.

INT. CORRIDOR

This place was designed by machines for machines. The
architecture is alien, without aesthetics, without even
such human basics as doorknobs and lights. Connor leads
the team past more frozen terminator endoskeletons,
deactivated like the ones on the surface.

CONNOR (V.O.)
All these machines were controlled
by a kind of God, a low-rent self-
appointed God called Skynet. Skynet
was a supercomputer built for
strategic defense back in the
Nineties. Today we destroyed it in
its fortress in the Colorado Rockies,
and all its toys stopped...

As they continue on, they pass other teams of guerrilla
soldiers.

CONNOR (V.O.)
This place is one of Skynet's toys.
A machine built by machines.It is
like nothing which has ever existed
before... the first tactical time
weapon. Before today, no human had
seen this place, but I've been here
in my dreams many times. All my
life I've tried to imagine what it
would look like. Now I'm actually
here...

INT. TIME DISPLACEMENT CHAMBER

Vault-like doors open. Connor strides through with
authority and purpose. He is saluted smartly by everyone
he encounters, though he wears no insignia of rank.

There is a bustle of hurried activity here. The chamber
is the size of a high-school gym and consist totally of
machine surfaces. Nothing in the design makes any sense.
We can't tell what anything does. It is a technology we
cannot imagine.

CONNOR (V.O.)
Skynet, being almost infinitely
smart, was also infinitely tricky.
It knew it was losing, so it thought
of a way to rig the game...

Technicians have pulled up floor panels and tapped
directly into cabling of the machine, using portable
terminals that they have wheeled in. Many of the soldiers
in this war against machines are technical specialists...
you have to fight fire with fire.

CONNOR (V.O.)
And now, though we've won the war,
there is still one battle left to
fight. The most important one. It
will be fought in the past, almost
four decades ago... before all this
began... See, the only problem with
time travel is... it ain't over even
when it's over.

At the far end of the room, a young soldier stands
surrounded by a team of technicians. KYLE REESE. Sarah
Connor's defender, teacher, and lover in the first film.
A simple soldier who is about to walk point-blank into the
gaping maw of history. At the moment, he is the center of
activity. As he finishes stripping off his battle
uniform, the techs begin smearing his body with a
conductive so the time-field will follow his outline.

Reese looks around at all the activity. Battle and the
prospect of death have never scared him. But the
importance of what he is about to do terrifies him.

The techs move aside and suddenly John Connor is standing
beside him. Connor... their grim messiah. Their leader.
He fixes Reese with an intense gaze. There is so much he
wants to say, but cannot bring himself to. Finally Reese
speaks.

REESE
Did you know I'd be the one who
volunteered?

Connor nods.

CONNOR
I've always known. Sarah told me.

Reese nods. Suddenly understanding everything.

REESE
That's why you moved me to your
unit? Kept me so close.

Connor shrugs enigmatically.
One of the techs interrupts them

TECH
We're ready, Sergeant.

THREE ENORMOUS CHROME RINGS, one inside the other, are
suspended in a circular hole in the center of the room's
floor. John and Reese approach them.

Reese steps onto the first ring. It bobs under his
weight. We see that the rings are freely floating in a
magnetic field. Reese steps to the inner ring and looks
into the hole. A vast echoing darkness below. He looks
back at John. The messiah is waiting for him to step into
the bottomless pit.

CONNOR
Sometimes you have to put your faith
in the machine.

Reese takes a breath, then steps into open space and is
buoyed up by an unseen field of force. He floats in the
middle of the rings. The techs start the time
displacement sequence.

THE RINGS BEGIN TO MOVE, slowly rotating around each other
on different axis like some complex gyroscope.

THE FLOOR BEGINS TO SPLIT OPEN, like wedges in a pie which
begin to pull back from the center. The rings are

spinning faster now, suspended in space in the middle of
the receding floor wedges. The rings begin to descend.

JOHN AND REESE LOCK EYES as they move apart. Reese is
dropping into an unbelievably vast circular space... the
time-field generator. John watches him go, until Reese is
a tiny figure. The rings are spinning so rapidly now they
almost disappear, becoming a sphere of whirling steel.
Technicians pull John back from the edge.

LIGHTNING BEGINS TO ARC across the vast room below. A
huge charge of energy is building up. Everyone takes
cover behind blast walls they have set up. They put on
goggles like they used to do at A-bomb tests. This is
going to be big.

The chamber below has become a Hell of energy with Reese
at its center. The drone and crackle of the machines
builds to thunder, there is a BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT!

When the glare fades the floating rings are empty. They
slow to a stop, seared and smoking. Reese is gone.

FUENTES, one of the officers, turns to Connor.

FUENTES
Now what happens to Reese? I mean,
what did happen?

Connor's gaze seems far away from this time and place.

CONNOR
He accomplishes his mission and in
doing so, he dies.

FUENTES
He is a good soldier.

Connor solemnly nods.
CONNOR
Yes... He's also my father.

FUENTES
Mother of God!

Fuentes stares at Connor in amazement. He has just been
given a glimpse into his leader's private Hell. Connor
turns from the smoking chamber. He seems suddenly ten
years old as his features drain of strength, shoulders
sagging.

Fuentes shouts an order to a waiting Sapper team.

FUENTES
Sapper team. Set your charges.
Let's blow this place back to Hell.

Connor shakes his head no. Mustering his strength.

CONNOR
Not yet. There's one more thing we
have to do.

TIGHT ON MASSIVE DOORS OF STEEL, covered with a thin sheet
of ice. Locking bolts slam back. Ice shatters like glass
as the doors begin to open. We are in--

INT. COLD STORAGE FACILITY

Connor walks into the darkness, followed by a few
technicians. They are in a vault-like cold-storage room.
Hanging in steel racks from ceiling tracks are hundreds of
what appear to be men. They are in rows of ten. Within
each row, each of the bodies are absolutely identical.

Connor signals the techs to remain by the door and walks
out among the dark bodies. They are UNACTIVATED
TERMINATORS. He stops at a row in which they are
identical to the terminator which was sent to kill Sarah
(the Arnold model).

He walks to the end of the row. There is one empty rack.
He faces the terminator in the next rack. Its eyes are
closed.
John seems distant as he studies that face.
Fuentes enters the chamber, pushing past the technicians.
Calls for his leader in the darkness.

FUENTES
John?... John?...

TIGHT ON CONNOR, his face pensive as Fuentes calls his
name. Fuentes voice slowly dissolves to ANOTHER VOICE. A
woman's. Echoing as though from a great distance...

**timeless2** · 11-19-2008, 02:28 PM

First official footage revealed to press - The Terminator Files

B00STED4V · 11-19-2008, 03:14 PM

neat

Stinky · 11-19-2008, 05:02 PM

Not going to read that shit but if there are pics I will take a gander.

Cali Korleone · 11-19-2008, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stinky

Not going to read that shit but if there are pics I will take a gander.

There is no pics. Not even a true spoiler.

Stinky · 11-26-2008, 08:47 AM

Coolest movie poster ever?

TERMINATOR: SALVATION Web Poster thingee

Official site here.

Terminator Salvation Poster

Four rumors cleared up.

Four Salvation rumours cleared up - The Terminator Files

07-29-2008, 04:43 PM	#101 (permalink)
Cali Korleone Megaman says that I'm Too Gangsta 4 A CT. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Redtube.com Posts: 10,733	Possible spoiler. There is a character named Serena in T4. She is played by that chick in Fight Club. In some of the Terminator novels the character named Serena is a human terminator. She is a human, cloned by Skynet, and programmed/brainwashed to follow it's orders. Her model is I-950. She is was the next step in infiltration models. Because she is human, she can go undetected by scanners and dogs. __________________

07-29-2008, 04:45 PM	#102 (permalink)
DuckyBubbles05 I'll pass on the knife fuck, thanks. Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Rockhurst University (Kansas City, Missouri) Posts: 9,356	Saw a preview during the Dark Knight.... looks ok __________________ ~Rebecca~

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Cali Korleone Megaman says that I'm Too Gangsta 4 A CT. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Redtube.com Posts: 10,733	Cut to: John Connor and his men inside a bunker. There is a huge cybernetic arm tied to a table – it's about seven feet long and topped with a claw. Connor crouches nest to the claw to study it and the claw comes to life, snapping at the air. Cut to: A huge metal machine rearing into shot with red eyes and an enormous metal carapace. An inhuman howl fills the air. T-600R's. I remember those in the comics. __________________

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B00STED4V Caution: Pees Everywhere When Drunk Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ray-Jay Posts: 20,734	oh hell yeah, i remember those! __________________

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B00STED4V Caution: Pees Everywhere When Drunk Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ray-Jay Posts: 20,734	i cant find any pics of them __________________

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B00STED4V Caution: Pees Everywhere When Drunk Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ray-Jay Posts: 20,734	that terminator looks like one form the terminator ride at universal. Jonah Nolan has been onboard as a writer since this film was announced... __________________

11-15-2008, 03:56 PM	#114 (permalink)
Cali Korleone Megaman says that I'm Too Gangsta 4 A CT. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Redtube.com Posts: 10,733	This should be the ending to the movie. The original T2 introduction. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY Downtown L.A. Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME LONG LENS the lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity. In SLOW MOTION they move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper. Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is surreal dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to... DISSOLVE TO: EXT. CITY RUINS - DAY Same spot as the last shot, but now it is a frozen landscape in Hell. The cars are stopped in rusted rows, still bumper to bumper. The skyline of buildings beyond has been shattered by some unimaginable force like a row of kicked-down sandcastles. The sky glows, dark as iron. A freezing wind blows through the desolation, keening with the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the snow into drifts, stark white against the charred rubble. Fire and ice. The image is without color... lifeless as the moon. A TITLE CARD FADES IN: LOS ANGELES, AUGUST 11, 2029 ANGLE ON a heap of fire-blackened bones. Skulls identify them as human. WE BEGIN TO TRACK, revealing beyond the mound a vast tundra of bones and shattered concrete. Skulls like eyeless sentinels. The rush hour crowds burned down in their tracks. We hear a MAN"S VOICE, gentle, though rich in authority, and tempered by the pain of watching a world die. MAN (V.O.) It all came down on a Tuesday in September of '99. Pretty normal day, except for the end of the world part. Somehow, I don't remember how, we started calling it Judgment Day. I was in Argentina that particular Tuesday. A good place to be, considering everything alive north of the equator stopped being alive... WE DISSOLVE TO a playground... where intense heat has half-melted the jungle gym, the blast has warped the swing set, the merry-go-round has sagged in the firestorm. Small skulls look accusingly from the snow-drifts. WE HEAR the distant echo of children's voices... playing and laughing in the sun. A silly, sing-songy rhyme as WE TRACK SLOWLY over seared asphalt where the faint hieroglyphs of hopscotch lines are still visible. MAN (V.O.) Afterward it got cold. Real cold. Nuclear winter they called it. The few that survived, starved... CAMERA comes to a rest on a burnt and rusted tricycle... next to the tiny skull of its owner. A metal foot crushes the skull like china. MAN (V.O.) The few that survived that saw the Machines rise up... machines of many types but with one purpose... to hunt us down and kill us all like a bunch of cockroaches... TILT UP, revealing a humanoid machine holding a massive battle rifle. It looks like a hydraulically-actuated CHROME SKELETON. A high-tech death figure. It is a combat chassis, the underlying component, or endoskeleton, of a Series 800 Terminator. An antipersonnel weapon controlled by Skynet, a computer which is threatening the human survivors of the war with final extinction. The endoskeleton's glowing red eyes compassionlessly sweep the dead terrain, hunting. Then suddenly snap toward CAMERA. ENDOSKELETON POV (DIGITIZED) as it racks a RUNNING FIGURE across the desolate landscape. Through these eyes we see the world as a computer-generated image. Symbols and graphics rapidly appear on the center display as the machine acquires its target. THE FIGURE, a young boy in rags, is centerpunched by the deadly round. He sprawls to a smoking heap on the blackened sludge. ANOTHER FIGURE, a guerrilla soldier hefting a battered RPG rocket launcher. THE ENDOSKELETON turns, too late. The rocket vaporizes the top half of it. Its bottom half takes a few uncertain steps, then topples to the earth. MAN (V.O.) Our stubbornness makes no sense to their machine minds. We fight when logic tells us we are beaten. But we have a saying... it's not over 'till its over. It keeps us going. The war against the Machines is in its thirty-first year... The figure quickly takes cover at the approaching SOUND of ROARING TURBINES. A shadow blackens the sky as a formation of flying HK (Hunter-Killer) patrol machines passes overhead. PAN WITH THEM toward the jagged horizon, beyond which we see flashes, and hear the distant thunder of a pitched battle in progress. CUT TO: EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY THE BATTLE. Human troops in desperate combat with the Machines for possession of the dead Earth. The humans are a ragtag guerrilla army, made up mostly of troops from Southern Hemisphere countries... Africans, South Americans, Australians. The survivors of the nuclear war between the Northern Hemisphere super-powers. This is the reality of the post-Apocalyptic world. North of the equator we all die. We hear radio chatter in Spanish, interspersed with Swahili and other African languages. The occasional Aussie unit can be heard. The humans use RPG launchers, plasma-pulse battle rifles, and home-built armored personnel carriers. Skynet's weapons consist of the massive ground HKs (tank- like robot weapon-platforms) flying HKs, medium weight four-legged gun-pods called Centurions, the humanoid Terminators in various forms (600, 700, and 800 series), and small, fast-crawling kamikaze units called Silverfish that look like 5' long chrome centipedes. The Silverfish snake into gun emplacements and explode. SEQUENCE OF RAPID CUTS Explosions! Beam-weapons firing like searing strobe-lights. Energy bolts crisscrossing frame. Hand-launched Stinger missiles blowing an aerial HK out of the sky. A Sapper team tries to disable a ground HK. They get riddled by its rapidly tracking gun turret. A TEAM OF GUERRILLAS is being overrun by terminator endoskeletons in the ruins of a building. One by one, the soldiers fall in desperate hand-to-hand combat. One of the terminators looms over a wounded soldier, its battle rifle's barrel swinging down toward the guerrilla's head. The man stares defiantly into his death. Then... Suddenly, amazingly, the terminator stops, freezing in place... Aerial HKs tilt slowly, out of control, and crash to the ground. All the terminators stand frozen, unmoving, like a bunch of toy soldiers. The sudden silence takes the humans by surprise. They slowly emerge from their rat-warren emplacements and approach the frozen machines. We hear a voice speaking over a radio headset. It is filled with awed emotion. HEADSET VOICE (O.S.) ... The Colorado Division confirms that Skynet has been destroyed... The war is over... I repeat, Skynet has been destroyed. CAMERA TRACKS along the soldiers, bleeding, frostbitten, wrapped in rags... Valley Forge with better weapons. The wounded soldier in the ruins of the building cautiously approaches the chrome skeleton before him. He pushes against its chest with one finger. It topples with a crash and lies still. The soldier turns to his comrades with an idiot grin. Tears are streaming down his face. A mighty cheer goes up from the men and woman of the Last Army. INT. TIME DISPLACEMENT COMPLEX - L.A. - LATER A STAINLESS STEEL ELEVATOR SHAFT, going deep into the bowels of the earth. Tiny figures stand on an open platform which descends rapidly, becoming a speck. ON THE PLATFORM. An imposing man, surrounded by a team of guerrilla officers stands on the platform as it descends. He is JOHN CONNOR. Forty-five years old. Chiseled. Stern. The left side of his face is heavily scarred. An impressive man, and clearly one forged in the furnace of a lifetime of war. The voice we heard continues now. CONNOR (V.O.) My name is Connor. It's my job to lead these people. My mother, Sarah, gave me the job... and she's not exactly someone you say "no" to. I wish to God I had. I've sent thousands to their deaths. But let me tell you about death in this world. We piss on the bones of a billion people. Death's not what it used to be. If there is a God, his love and 45 cents will buy you coffee... The platform reached its destination. Connor and the officers step off. Begin moving down a long corridor. INT. CORRIDOR This place was designed by machines for machines. The architecture is alien, without aesthetics, without even such human basics as doorknobs and lights. Connor leads the team past more frozen terminator endoskeletons, deactivated like the ones on the surface. CONNOR (V.O.) All these machines were controlled by a kind of God, a low-rent self- appointed God called Skynet. Skynet was a supercomputer built for strategic defense back in the Nineties. Today we destroyed it in its fortress in the Colorado Rockies, and all its toys stopped... As they continue on, they pass other teams of guerrilla soldiers. CONNOR (V.O.) This place is one of Skynet's toys. A machine built by machines.It is like nothing which has ever existed before... the first tactical time weapon. Before today, no human had seen this place, but I've been here in my dreams many times. All my life I've tried to imagine what it would look like. Now I'm actually here... INT. TIME DISPLACEMENT CHAMBER Vault-like doors open. Connor strides through with authority and purpose. He is saluted smartly by everyone he encounters, though he wears no insignia of rank. There is a bustle of hurried activity here. The chamber is the size of a high-school gym and consist totally of machine surfaces. Nothing in the design makes any sense. We can't tell what anything does. It is a technology we cannot imagine. CONNOR (V.O.) Skynet, being almost infinitely smart, was also infinitely tricky. It knew it was losing, so it thought of a way to rig the game... Technicians have pulled up floor panels and tapped directly into cabling of the machine, using portable terminals that they have wheeled in. Many of the soldiers in this war against machines are technical specialists... you have to fight fire with fire. CONNOR (V.O.) And now, though we've won the war, there is still one battle left to fight. The most important one. It will be fought in the past, almost four decades ago... before all this began... See, the only problem with time travel is... it ain't over even when it's over. At the far end of the room, a young soldier stands surrounded by a team of technicians. KYLE REESE. Sarah Connor's defender, teacher, and lover in the first film. A simple soldier who is about to walk point-blank into the gaping maw of history. At the moment, he is the center of activity. As he finishes stripping off his battle uniform, the techs begin smearing his body with a conductive so the time-field will follow his outline. Reese looks around at all the activity. Battle and the prospect of death have never scared him. But the importance of what he is about to do terrifies him. The techs move aside and suddenly John Connor is standing beside him. Connor... their grim messiah. Their leader. He fixes Reese with an intense gaze. There is so much he wants to say, but cannot bring himself to. Finally Reese speaks. REESE Did you know I'd be the one who volunteered? Connor nods. CONNOR I've always known. Sarah told me. Reese nods. Suddenly understanding everything. REESE That's why you moved me to your unit? Kept me so close. Connor shrugs enigmatically. One of the techs interrupts them TECH We're ready, Sergeant. THREE ENORMOUS CHROME RINGS, one inside the other, are suspended in a circular hole in the center of the room's floor. John and Reese approach them. Reese steps onto the first ring. It bobs under his weight. We see that the rings are freely floating in a magnetic field. Reese steps to the inner ring and looks into the hole. A vast echoing darkness below. He looks back at John. The messiah is waiting for him to step into the bottomless pit. CONNOR Sometimes you have to put your faith in the machine. Reese takes a breath, then steps into open space and is buoyed up by an unseen field of force. He floats in the middle of the rings. The techs start the time displacement sequence. THE RINGS BEGIN TO MOVE, slowly rotating around each other on different axis like some complex gyroscope. THE FLOOR BEGINS TO SPLIT OPEN, like wedges in a pie which begin to pull back from the center. The rings are spinning faster now, suspended in space in the middle of the receding floor wedges. The rings begin to descend. JOHN AND REESE LOCK EYES as they move apart. Reese is dropping into an unbelievably vast circular space... the time-field generator. John watches him go, until Reese is a tiny figure. The rings are spinning so rapidly now they almost disappear, becoming a sphere of whirling steel. Technicians pull John back from the edge. LIGHTNING BEGINS TO ARC across the vast room below. A huge charge of energy is building up. Everyone takes cover behind blast walls they have set up. They put on goggles like they used to do at A-bomb tests. This is going to be big. The chamber below has become a Hell of energy with Reese at its center. The drone and crackle of the machines builds to thunder, there is a BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT! When the glare fades the floating rings are empty. They slow to a stop, seared and smoking. Reese is gone. FUENTES, one of the officers, turns to Connor. FUENTES Now what happens to Reese? I mean, what did happen? Connor's gaze seems far away from this time and place. CONNOR He accomplishes his mission and in doing so, he dies. FUENTES He is a good soldier. Connor solemnly nods. CONNOR Yes... He's also my father. FUENTES Mother of God! Fuentes stares at Connor in amazement. He has just been given a glimpse into his leader's private Hell. Connor turns from the smoking chamber. He seems suddenly ten years old as his features drain of strength, shoulders sagging. Fuentes shouts an order to a waiting Sapper team. FUENTES Sapper team. Set your charges. Let's blow this place back to Hell. Connor shakes his head no. Mustering his strength. CONNOR Not yet. There's one more thing we have to do. TIGHT ON MASSIVE DOORS OF STEEL, covered with a thin sheet of ice. Locking bolts slam back. Ice shatters like glass as the doors begin to open. We are in-- INT. COLD STORAGE FACILITY Connor walks into the darkness, followed by a few technicians. They are in a vault-like cold-storage room. Hanging in steel racks from ceiling tracks are hundreds of what appear to be men. They are in rows of ten. Within each row, each of the bodies are absolutely identical. Connor signals the techs to remain by the door and walks out among the dark bodies. They are UNACTIVATED TERMINATORS. He stops at a row in which they are identical to the terminator which was sent to kill Sarah (the Arnold model). He walks to the end of the row. There is one empty rack. He faces the terminator in the next rack. Its eyes are closed. John seems distant as he studies that face. Fuentes enters the chamber, pushing past the technicians. Calls for his leader in the darkness. FUENTES John?... John?... TIGHT ON CONNOR, his face pensive as Fuentes calls his name. Fuentes voice slowly dissolves to ANOTHER VOICE. A woman's. Echoing as though from a great distance... __________________

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