Substantial fan interest in "Terminator Salvation" has prompted The Halcyon Company to announce that it is already moving forward with a sequel before the movie debuts on May 22, 2009.
Because fans' input about the Terminator franchise apparently matters, speculation about the recently announced fifth movie is sure to follow. What makes this problematic is that nothing in terms of story expectations are inevitable in a movie series based on the possibility of being able to alter the future in the past.
No one can assume that Anton Yelchin's Kyle Reese, who is a teenager in "Terminator Salvation," goes back in time when he is as old as Michael Biehn's interpretation of the character to defend John Connor's mother until it is evident that the human resistance is about to defeat Skynet. Because this is only likely to occur toward the end of the planned Terminator movie trilogy, do not expect Kyle Reese to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Depending on whether director Joseph McGinty Nichol shares James Cameron's style of not having too definitive of an ending to a Terminator movie, "Terminator Salvation" sequels might deal with the human resistance trying to stop a desperate Skynet from acquiring the technology with which to send its cybernetic organism assassins back in time to change the outcome of the war again.
Terminator 5 might at the very least introduce the concept of time travel once Christian Bale's John Connor gains the trust of people who will eventually form the human resistance.
Assuming time travel technology becomes a MacGuffin in "Terminator Salvation" sequels, what might be revealed is who or what was responsible for its development. Common sense would dictate that Skynet would lack the human ability to imagine something as seemingly illogical as changing events that have already occurred. Sentience is not the same as thinking outside the box, it could be argued.
Besides, an artificial intelligence-invented time machine would likely find a way to send back fully-clothed Terminators.
Humans likely invented time travel unless one of them helped Skynet come up with the idea.
Could this be the role played by Helen Bonham Carter's Serena Kogen, who is the the lead villain in "Terminator Salvation"? Is it her hands John Connor refers to as having been busy in the movie trailer? Why would a human help Skynet?
Only 2011 will tell.
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