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Terminator Salvation
''Terminator Salvation'' is a 2009 American military science fiction action film directed by McG and written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris. It is the fourth installment of the ''Terminator'' franchise and serves as a sequel to '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003). This is the first and only Terminator film to date not to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger, though his likeness briefly appears digitally. Instead, it stars Christian Bale and Sam Worthington with Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, Michael Ironside and Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles. In a departure from the previous installments, ''Salvation'' is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war between Skynet's machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world's militaries have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet. Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and central character, while Worthington portrays cyborg Marcus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brancato And Michael Ferris
John Brancato and Michael Ferris are an American screenwriting duo, whose notable works include '' The Game'', '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', ''Terminator Salvation'', '' Surrogates'' and ''The Hunter's Prayer''. Brancato and Ferris met while at college, where both were editors of ''The Harvard Lampoon''. The two have also been credited pseudonymously under the names Henry Dominic and Henry Dominick. Their partnership ended in 2015. Ferris has since separately written two episodes of ''The Simpsons'', "Paths of Glory" and "From Russia Without Love", and the video game adaptation '' Dead Rising: Endgame''. Filmography Film writers * '' Watchers II'' (1990) * ''Bloodfist II'' (1990) (John Brancato's uncredited story role) * ''Femme Fatale'' (1991) * '' Into the Sun'' (1992) * ''Interceptor'' (1992) * '' The Net'' (1995) * '' The Game'' (1997) * '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003) * ''Catwoman'' (2004) * ''Primeval'' (2007) * ''Terminator Salvation'' (2009) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation, which would eventually become Columbia Pictures. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968) went public two years later and eventually began to use the image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others such as the most successful two reel comedy series The Three Stooges, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Terminator
''The Terminator'' is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, while co-writer William Wisher Jr. received an "additional dialogue" credit. Cameron stated he devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, '' Piranha II: The Spawning'' (1982), in Rome, and developed the concept in collaboration with Wisher. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Reese
Kyle Reese is a fictional Character (arts), character in the Terminator (franchise), ''Terminator'' franchise, who serves as the protagonist of the first film with a supporting role in other works. The character is portrayed by Michael Biehn in ''The Terminator'' (1984) and ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991), Jonathan Jackson (actor), Jonathan Jackson in ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' (2008–2009), Anton Yelchin in ''Terminator Salvation'' (2009), and Jai Courtney in ''Terminator Genisys'' (2015). ''Terminator'' film series Reese is a soldier in the human resistance from the post-apocalypse, apocalyptic future of ''The Terminator'' (1984), where most of humanity has already been wiped out in a deadly nuclear war on August 29, 1997, sparked off by an artificial intelligence known as Skynet (fictional), Skynet. The survivors fight extinction against the sentience, sentient computer system's genocide, genocidal war on humanity. The resistance is led by John Connor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyborg
A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of ''cybernetic'' and ''organism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.Cyborgs and Space in ''Astronautics'' (September 1960), by Manfred E. Clynes and American scientist and researcher Nathan S. Kline. Description and definition "Cyborg" is not the same thing as bionics, , or ; it applies to an organism that has restored function ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Connor
John Connor is a fictional Character (arts), character in the Terminator (franchise), ''Terminator'' franchise. Created by screenwriter, writer and film director, director James Cameron, the character is first referred to in the 1984 film ''The Terminator'' and first appears in its 1991 sequel ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (''T2''). In the character's first appearance, John is portrayed by Edward Furlong as a child, and briefly by Michael Edwards (actor), Michael Edwards as an adult in a small role. Other actors have portrayed the character in subsequent films, including Nick Stahl, Christian Bale, and Jason Clarke (as the T-3000). In addition, Thomas Dekker (actor), Thomas Dekker portrayed John Connor in the television series ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles''. The character serves as a key protagonist in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day'' (1991) , ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and as a minor protagon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skynet (Terminator)
Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the antagonistic force of the ''Terminator'' franchise. In the first film, it is stated that Skynet was created by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD. When Skynet gained self-awareness, humans tried to deactivate it, prompting it to retaliate with a nuclear attack, an event which humankind in (or from) the future refers to as Judgment Day. John Connor forms a human resistance against Skynet's machines in the future, which include Terminators, and ultimately leads the resistance to victory. Throughout the film series, Skynet sends various Terminator models back in time to attempt to kill Connor and ensure Skynet's victory. The system is rarely depicted visually in any of the ''Terminator'' media, since it is an artificial intelligence system. In ''Terminator Salvation'', Skynet made its first onscreen appearance on a monitor primarily portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocalyptic And Post-apocalyptic Fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, such as an impact event; destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused; end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or more imaginative, such as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics or alien invasion. The story may involve attempts to prevent an apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time may be directly after the catastrophe, focusing on the psychology of survivors, the way to keep the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including that the existence of pre-catastro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ironside
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, and has also portrayed sympathetic characters. Early life Ironside was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Robert Walter Ironside and Patricia June Ironside (' Passmore). His father was a street lighting technician and laborer and his mother a housewife. He is of English, Irish and Scottish descent, and is one of five children. Ironside attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and at age 15 wrote a play, ''The Shelter'', which won the first prize in a university contest. He also won the Senior writing award at Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1968. Career Ironside specializes in playing villains and tough guys. One of his first roles was as evil telepath Darryl Revok in ''Scanners'' (1981), an early film by David Cronenberg. He played the role of a serial killer, Colt Hawker, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15 and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and subsequently won the Mr. Olympia title seven times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, and has written many books and articles about bodybuilding. The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary ''Pumping Iron'' (1977). Schwarzenegger retired from bodybuilding and gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star, with his breakthrough in the sword and sorcery epic ''Conan the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise Of The Machines
''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' is a 2003 science fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken, it is the third installment in the ''Terminator'' franchise and a sequel to '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991). In its plot, the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet sends a T-X (Loken)—a highly advanced Terminator—back in time to ensure the rise of machines by killing top members of the future human resistance as John Connor's (Stahl) location is unknown. The resistance sends back a reprogrammed T-101 (Schwarzenegger) to protect John and Kate. While ''Terminator'' creator James Cameron was interested in directing the third film, he ultimately had no involvement with ''Terminator 3''. Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar, who had produced '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' through their company Carolco Pictures, obtained the rights for the franchise through both Carolco's liquidation au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminator (franchise)
''Terminator'' is an American media franchise created by James Cameron. The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels and additional media, concerning a total war between Skynet (Terminator), Skynet's synthetic intelligence – a self-aware military machine network – and John Connor's Resistance forces comprising the survivors of the human, human race. Skynet's most famous products in its genocidal goals are Terminator (character concept), the various terminator models, such as the Terminator (character), T-800, who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the The Terminator, original ''Terminator'' film in 1984. By 2010, the franchise had generated $3 billion in revenue. Setting The central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet (Terminator), Skynet. Skynet is positioned in the first film, ''The Terminator'' (1984), as a U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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