Here is a listing you might not see on Craigslist. The rights to Terminator are going up for sale.
The reasons why this property is available stem from producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek filing for bankruptcy less than two years after purchasing these rights and less than four months after Terminator Salvation was released. The producers claim that Terminator is worth about $60 million, but this one is probably priced to move because of the bankruptcy.
So perhaps Anderson and Kubicek didn’t get that bailout over their financial difficulties that they were hoping for, and like any business that gets in over its head sometimes closing doors or selling off assets is the only way out.
Personally for me the Terminator thing has more than run its course. Maybe if the last two films even held a candle to the first two I might feel differently, but I don’t see a need for anything more from this universe.
Hopefully whoever buys these rights does something with it to reinvigorate the franchise. I was all pumped to see the war that was only talked about in the previous chapters, but I was less than impressed with the story and characters.
Unless something shiny comes out with the Terminator name on it, I would be hard to get excited about beating that dead horse.
