According to an interview the director gave to Screen Rant back in 2009, John’s task would be bringing together the world’s militaries en masse so that humanity might stand a chance against Skynet's onslaught. McG had plenty of ideas for where to take the franchise next, which included Bale's John Connor traveling back in time to London circa 2011 to warn the world of the impending machine invasion, with Skynet having figured out a way to send non-Infiltrators units through time. Few of these ideas were revisited in later installments Terminator: Genisysand Terminator: Dark Fate but perhaps they should have been, given how promising the trilogy sounds on paper and how underwhelming those later installments proved to be.
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McG had ambitious plans for the trilogy’s content, and in addition to a technological assault on England’s capital city, other drafts of his proposed follow-up included ideas like the return of series icons Robert Patrick and Linda Hamilton. that provides the franchise with its titular cyborg foes, descended on the city and wreaked havoc. McG’s Terminator: Salvation 2 would have taken place in present-day London as Skynet, the A.I. Related: How Ash Vs Evil Dead Gave The Babysitter's Samara Weaving Her Big Break Terminator: Salvation was originally intended to be the starting point for a new trilogy, but a mixture of legal issues and the fourth outings lukewarm reception saw those plans come to nothing.
However, the movie’s tortured production process didn’t stop McG from planning sequels before it was released, and the follow-up to Terminator: Salvation would have seen the series head to an entirely new location to depict the end of the world.
Heavily recut and rewritten both due to studio notes and the need to secure a more PG-13 rating, the originally promising Terminator: Salvation lost its killer twist ending and a lot of effective action during revisions. Eventually, The Babysitter director McG took over the directorial reins of the franchise leading to 2009 sequel Terminator: Salvation. Beginning with James Cameron’s tense, terrifying sci-fi slasher The Terminator in 1984, the Terminator series started life as a brutal slice of tense action-horror before moving into a more action-oriented direction with its sequels.
Originally intended to be the second in a planned trilogy, McG’s Terminator: Salvation 2 would have depicted the invasion of London by Skynet.