In May, The Halcyon Company announced that they’d acquired the rights to the Terminator film franchise (see this article), and were planning to reboot the series with Christian Bale (The Dark Knight) as John Connor (work is already under way on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins). Now comes word from the Dubai International Film Festival that Halcyon co-founders Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek are working on the fifth film, and that McG (who is directing the fourth) is also working on #5. The fifth film (not yet titled) is tentatively scheduled for release in 2011.
Anderson and Kubicek has planned to wait until the fourth film was released (Summer 2009) before deciding whether or not to continue with the fifth, but, according to Variety, “the positive studio, fan, and media reaction to footage from the current pic has encouraged them to move forward ahead of schedule.”
“We feel the time is now to start shaping the next part of this,” said Kubicek.
The Halcyon games division intends to release the videogame tie-in the same day as the film.