Now you might be saying to yourself, why would someone be selling away the rights to the Terminator series? And as an answer, I’d encourage everyone to watch Terminator Salvation. Then stab yourself with a paper clip.
Terminator’s rights being sold away is kinda weird. Not gonna lie. What’s even weirder? That it was bought by a hedge fund. The company who owned the Terminator rights went bankrupt after the last film went grossed less than eleventy billion dollars, which is what they predicted it’d get after pairing together Christian Bale, McG, a huge special effects budget, and a light technician that I AM FUCKING DONE WITH PROFESSIONALLY.
The hedge fund who owned the company who owned the rights just bought the rights. What’s this mean? We’re one step away from Goldman and Sachs sponsoring action movies. Piles of money will be shot at helicopters. A future that’s not unlike Mad Max where twenty dollar bills are deadly weapons. Joss Whedon famously offered to buy the rights for a minuscule amount of money, but the people who are in charge of Terminator probably figured that they didn’t need another television show on Fox to move to Friday night and get canned.
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