Fan Fiction is not a bad word. Or what to do when…

you put years of hard work into writing a magnum opus and folks treat you just like any other writer of fan fiction.

Ofttimes people look on writers of Fan Fiction as the lowest common denominator. The fan who will write and release even the most ludicrous of stories, with minimal connections to what they’re a fan of, just to be seen or heard. And I’ll agree that there are some writers of fan fiction who don’t seem to give two tosses about how awesome their writing seems compared to how awesomely awful it really is.

That becomes a huge problem for legitimate fans of the series, myself included who spend years writing and nurturing their stories or scripts to fruition. In some cases (mine included) they have been blessed and alternately cursed by meeting more than one person behind the worlds they are fans of and are striving to continue in a most legitimate fashion.

I started writing Terminator fiction in 1992, and any study hall period became a brainstorming session for ideas for my Terminator 3 script. By June of 1994 the script had become a 247 page Novel, and I printed out new pages by the day, put them in a three ring binder and carried the story EVERYWHERE. Including to acting classes my Mother and I attended at Beverly Hills Studios.

What happened through those classes changed my life as a up and coming writer and Terminator fan.

The Trailer for Stephen King’s Latest Novel!

 

It ’s a HUGE novel.

Can’t wait to pick it up.

Ross Out

Paging James Cameron! Time to make up for 1997.

What an interesting set of circumstances.

1997: Terminator Rights come up for auction. Cameron is working on Titanic let’s Fox Bid. They of course WOEFULLY underbid.

From that we get IMHO and ironically Camerons (on T3) as well damn good couple of films.

2009: Cameron is working on his first actual film since Titanic. The Terminator rights go up for sale again. What will happen?

Some fans say he abandoned the franchise and let it fall into the hands of people milking the franchise for money.

He said he was simply done with Terminator.

Some fans are HOPING for a second coming of sorts of Cameron to Terminator.

I say don’t hold your breath. Everyone…aka all the majors are getting in on this auction with Sony Studios being the front runner. And regardless of who purchases the franchise I can promise that with nigh on 1.5 BILLION bucks thus far another Terminator film WILL eventually be made.

Wil Cameron redeem himself in the eyes of the fans? And if he does will we get a Terminator movie in 3D using the Tech from Avatar?

Only time will tell.

Ross Out.

TOP Most Stupid Things in Terminator: Salvation.*

*Based on a thread of the same coherence and title at iMDB.

Here we go again let’s see how many stupid things we can…erm un-stupefy for folks…

1. You can actually connect a usb device to a alien robot and also you can override it’s operating system (probably windows xp)!

If you were playing close attention that was NOT a USB slot on the Mototerminator or the DOORS at Skynet Central. Have we also forgotten that John and his men has massive Programming and technical skills. Apparently we have.

2. Aliens write English Numbers on their walls!

First there are no aliens in this move. Second ALL of the facilities we see are human made and designed, even a good chunk of Skynet Central is re-purposed HUMAN buildings. The odds of human buildings having numbers is quite good.

3. Arnold schwarzenegger always shows up nude on his first appearance on each terminator movie.

Good eyes! Yes he does. What’s the point of dressing Terminators?

4. After finding out that you can cast a frequency signal in order to shut the robots down don’t even bother to bring a casting device with you on a rescue mission!

Except there is NO evidence to support it actually works. The Hydrobot was fodder. The Aerial H/K was commanded by Skynet to crash. EVERY time they show the SIGNAL WORK it is accompanied by a screen that says SIMULATION. The only way that signal actually works is as a TRACKING DEVICE for SKYNET.

5. in 2018 people listen to radio devices that belong to 1980s.

Yes they do…because they happen to be the ones they get to work.

6. A robot can have a heart! How stupid is that!

So stupid that the Terminators had Organs in the Treatment for The Terminator. In fact Terminators would HAVE TO HAVE ORGANS of some kind. Or their skin would die and their hair would fall out all over the place.

Next!

7: The only way to kill John Connor is to create a robot that sends him to a Terminator Facility guarded by two Terminators! That’s the only way.

I doubt it was the ONLY way…it was the only way that was shown here. And let’s be honest the odds of Marcus heart being good enough for anything even IF it were restarted is infinitesimal at best. Connor should have died….and I would have actually preferred that.

Salvation F.A.Q. based on DVD Active Comments!

1: This was a terminator film right? Then why did we only see like 3 terminators? IF this is the big war then shouldnt there big terminators everywhere you look? Where was the T-700? I know i saw a toy for one in walmart but yet didnt see it in the movie. too many questions and plot holes this movie created.

Answers: Yes it was. Because the Machines had all but wiped out humanity, why waste valuable resources. See last reply…this is the part that Kyle mentions in T1…the part where humans were on the verge of going out forever.

2: Yeah it sucked. Doesn’t look anything like the post apocalyptic future from the first movie either, wheres the nuclear winter?

Hello they haven’t learned to fight at night. Also Nuclear Winter has come and gone, and it also looks like said Nuclear exchanged has totally fucked up the weather patterns judging by all the damned rain in Salvation.

3: Terminator Salvation was fantastic on the level of art design — the terminators move so well in this film, it puts the earlier films to shame (but that can’t be helped, the originals didn’t have this level of visual effects quality available to them).

And as far as the story goes, Salvation was a nice mix of Resident Evil Extinction, Mad Max, and the Terminator series. If it had just retreaded the Terminator story of “machine chases after hero” I’d have been bored.

Instead, it was a war story, and a good one — all the themes of typical war stories are here: heroes crossing enemy lines, questions of loyalties and identity, romance, sacrifice… If Bogart could have been in any Terminator movie, he would have been in Terminator Salvation.

Answer: Fuck yes! And I’m borrowing your last sentence for my new sig.

SimplyScripts now hosts my T4 and T5 fanscripts!

THE place for scripts!

Here’s the Download links to my T4 and T5 scripts c/o SimplyScripts!

SimplyScripts is a boon for any screenwriter or fan of screenwriting with many multitudes of scripts available for download including stacks of unproduced scripts in a myriad of categories.

My T3 script may still be hosted there but I can’t find it…lotta scripts.

T4: Years of Darkness .doc Through SimplyScripts.

T5: Ashes of War 2nd Draft .doc Through SimplyScripts.

Lost Final Season Trailer…and Lazy Promotional Artwork

First of all I LOVE the trailer for the final Season.

Original Story here. In case the above flash video doesn’t work.

However what does annoy me is when T.V. shows do lazy advertising banners.

Creative Boredom?

John Connor’s Character Arc in T3

I know a great many complained about the way John Connor was written in T3: RoTM, however I don’t to be honest understand why. You see having just watched the film again for I’d guess somewhere in the hundredths of times, I realized that his character arc is in fact deeper than in T2.

Yeah I went there.

Allow me to explain T3’s Connor is very different from anyplace I thought they’d take Johns’ character. When we first meet him he’s a homeless person, living wherever his motorcycle takes him. Because as far as he can tell he’s taken Skynet off the map through the destruction of Cyberdyne in T2.

This makes him into a nobody. He no longer has a point, his reason for being has been eliminated, and now he’s a man without a place in this world because his actions taken along with the others in T2 at Cyberdyne effectively as far as he can tell has killed Skynet.

Having been a homeless person I can speak to the fact that while alone one loves the order and comfort of knowing just how your day is going to go and it is quite clear that John is loving the way his life is. He likes not having to be concerned about Skynet, Terminators and Nuclear War.

So when that world erupts violently back into being, John understandably so IMHO, doesn’t want to believe it. Even though he has his original mission back, he is now at a point in his life where he’s been comfortable just living. Doing what he’s wanted day in and day out, to want to fight the re-emergence of his reality.

And as his day continues he realizes that he wasn’t meant to be anonymous, he wasn’t meant to be a nobody, he was meant to be a leader. He was meant to fight, to try and stop Nuclear War from happening. To try and stop Skynet and the Machines.

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Ross Out.

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Yeah it’s here…yeah it’s big….yeah it’s a recycled plot.

Pretty colors…bad lines…so so CGI.

Plot Overload

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Ross Out.