T4’s Ending Revealed! Maybe. POSSIBLE SPOILERS
By Sam (Admin) | June 2, 2008 (10:52 pm) | More: Featured, Terminator 4 Movie News
Ooooooooohhhboy. If this had come around, say, April 1st or thereabouts, I would have easily thrown it into the trash can and forgotten about it. But it didn’t, which doesn’t mean you should still believe it, because let’s face it, as much as I enjoy reading what the guys over at Aint-it-cool-news has to say, and what their spies send in to them, they really could give less than a crap if their “scoop” ends up correct or not. AICN is about “breaking” scoops, not necessarily breaking correct scoops. Having said that, I’m still going to warn people that this article CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS, so don’t continue reading even if you don’t want the possibility of learning how “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins” ends…
Okay, you still here? Here’s what AICN’s spy sent in to them:
“Alright so the main character is a cyborg named Marcus. For some background, Marcus was a criminal who was executed in 2003. He donated his body to Project Angel which was involved with SkyNet. They take his body and make a terminator out of him so he’s a terminator skeleton but has living muscle/skin and a beating heart too. At the end of the movie John Connor is fighting a T800 model 101 and loses. He dies and the top resistance people come up with a plan to help the resistance keep fighting on. The resistance feels that it’s important to keep the image or idea that John Connor is still alive so the resistance keeps going. So they rip off Marcus’ skin and put John Connor’s on the skeleton so now Marcus is John Connor.”
Wow, really? I don’t know what to think. On one hand, why wouldn’t they do that? John Connor would, technically, STILL be alive, and Christian Bale would continue to play him, just as a “different” character, but playing the same character, if you know what I mean. It is certainly an intriguing idea if true, and I could see Bale taking on such a challenging role.
Also, from everything I’ve read, Marcus does indeed play an important role in the trilogy, and becomes a right-hand man to John Connor. And really, if they “killed” off John Connor, that would just piss off every single Terminator fan out there.
Then again — kill off John Connor and replace him with a bloody Terminator? That would just be FUBAR…
Right?
Update
CHUD has sort of confirmed AICN’s spoiler. Wow. Here’s what they said:
The rest of Mori’s spoiler - about the fate of Christian Bale’s John Connor - is stuff that I cannot confirm as solidly as Marcus the cyborg, but is what I had come to believe after talking to multiple sources. You may remember that I ran with the story that Bale would be playing a Terminator… well, I was sort of right. The confusion arose from the fact that by the end of the film, Connor is dead and Marcus, the cyborg Terminator, is impersonating him. This all leads into the thematic ground I told you about, the question of what makes someone a human.
Again. Wow.
Holy Crap.
Then again, maybe it does make sense, in a twisted sort of way. Remember, John Connor KNEW that he was sending his father to his death by sending him back in time, but he did it anyway. You would have to be pretty hardcore to do that, wouldn’t you? Maybe even have the cold heart of a machine, if you will…
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SPOILER COMMENT
John Connor was said to be dead in the very first film, wasn’t he? I swear in one of the movies, maybe it was the third one (I seriously forgot), someone said that John Connor died fighting. So this is no surprise if true, but he has to die eventually if my memory serves me right.
Also you have too many domain names.
That’s true, John Connor was mentioned to have died in T3, and Kate Connor reprogrammed the Terminator that killed him and sent him back to fight alongside the younger him. In any case, Connor being killed as related in T3 doesn’t jive with what is said above — Connor is killed, but no one knows, etc.
Whats your source to this “throwing out T3 thing”? the last thing i heard was that T4 was happening sometime after T3 nothing about throwing out T3 all together…..Facts? Quotes? and more importantly a LINK?
If this is true it will only prove that everyone else in Hollywood should be BANNED from making any sequels to any of James Cameron’s classic movies.
As it stands now I will NOT see this movie in a theater until I confirm this rumor is false. This so called twist does nothing but DESTROY the previous trilogy (or at least it completes the work started by the poor but not abysmally bad T3).
No way do I see this movie if this is true. Because if I ever could erase the memory of worthless dreck called Alien 3 from my brain I would. If they try to ruin Cameron’s Terminator movies the same way, I’m just going to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Alright, calm down, this is complete bollocks. Someone’s pulling an April Fool’s joke in the first week of June. Someone’s trying to throw off the trail by changing the direction of the scent. I’ll see this movie when it comes out.
Now, in McG’s interviews he says he will stay as true as possible to Cameron’s work, and what is written above for this ’spoiler’ cannot even possibly be close, because it’s TOO wild. Now, if someone told me he dies toward the end of the second movie, I would be more willing to believe it, because then we carry on with Kate Brewster -because of the boneheads writing 4 being the same idiots that wrote 3- in the 6th part of this whole mess.
This is not something to be believed or fretted over. No, I’m not a spy, no I’m not anyone with special access, and no I’m not smarter than everyone else on the planet and I don’t know what’s going on in McG’s head, or those of the writers. However, I have a brain, and I know the first trilogy inside and out, and this plot setup stinks of prevarication. Good night.
Who knows…I’ll accept whatever end product they produce….because im a dedicated Terminator fan…
That sounds really cool!…A John Conner terminater?….bring it on!
There is somebody worth chatting with about possible storylines…..too many haters up in here that think they should have a say in what direction the movies should go in instead of being just a fan like they are and will be forever…
I don’t care how many sites say this is true, this can’t be true… it’s just too stupid. All that a side, in T3 the Model 101 Says he killed Connor in the future… yes.. in 2032… this movie takes place in like 2018 or something.
“Who knows…I’ll accept whatever end product they produce….because im a dedicated Terminator fan…”
Even if it’s a piece of crap they made to sell toys and not to enhance the story or mythos? Sounds like a true sucker not a true Terminator Fan.
Riiighhhtttt, Your mixing up The Terminator with Transformers, Terminator has never been about a toyline……and here is an idea, why dont you post an educated reply to another persons post instead of showing your true intelligense level….no reason to call people names up in here….
I call it how I see it, saying I’ll go see it no matter how stupid or bad it is because I’m a fan is nothing something a true fan would say. A true Fan would want them to make the best possible movie based on the established canon and mythos. Oh and if you think that the studio doesn’t expect to make bank on Terminator merchandise your naive or fooling yourself.
Oh, and for the record.. I never called you a sucker… I said you sounded like a sucker.
Anyways Collin
Wow arent you just a smart guy…..First off you shouldnt be judging a film on what critics say alone and the only way to find out if it is a bad/stupid movie is to go see it for yourself as a true fan should. as for merchandise i never said that the studio did not expect to make money on a toyline, I just said they are not making the movie just to make money on a toyline, there is a difference PAL….
Hay hay people! Chill Out! Lets just get along and have a good time in here and help each other out on figuring out the plot and storyline. No name calling and definitely no fighting, peace.
Never said this movie would be bad, I said in my opinion.. if that spoiler is true. It won’t be something I would enjoy… and yes I am smart.
This story was debunked by the T4 director himself almost as soon as it was released
It sounds… plausible…
But if i was a Resistance General I wouldn’t think making Marcus look like John Connor is a really good idea.
I mean think about it. yes the effect on the resistance would be bad that John was killed. But it would be worse later on when the “new John” cut his arm and everyone suddenly found out in the middle of a battle that they were actually taking orders from a Terminator!
For those who have watched the Sarah Connor Chronicles: Look at Derek Reese’s reaction to simply Working with a terminator.
i dont know. Half of me thinks this possible “twist ending” could ruin the franchise and alienate the original fans, but at the same time I think it might work. Oh and by the way, isnt it possible that “The Terminator” killed the fake Connor without reallizing it? It seems fairly plausible to me.