New Terminator Movies Still Likely, Even With Lawsuits

Neither time-traveling cyborgs nor flesh-craving lawyers will stop more Terminator movies from being made, according to various sources around the production of the movies. The legal eagles circling around the franchise might slow down the making of “Terminator 5,” but won’t be able to stop it, according to various sources.

io9 has been all over the whole Halcyon kerfuffle, and says that, while there may be a big legal battle brewing to determine once again who owns the rights to the Terminator franchise, the fifth movie will still get produced sooner rather than later.

There’s a lot of great reading in io9′s exclusive breakdown of the legal situation, including the best “layman’s terms” description of the beef between Halcyon and hedge fund managers at Pacificor. The whole thing makes my head hurt (even more so than it already does), but the bottom line is that “Terminator Salvation” made far too much money ($370 million and counting worldwide) for the big metal machine to be derailed.

Yes, even with Hollywood, there are properties that are deemed “too big to fail.”