Over at IESB, director McG has been talking to the site about his plans for the fifth Terminator movie, which show no signs of being disrupted by the underwhelming box office (in the US at least) and critical response for this summer’s Terminator Salvation.

McG, who’s also attached to a new big screen version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, has revealed that he’s already hard at work prepping a new Terminator sequel, even though it’s the former project that’s likely to take precedence.

Talking about the lack of downtime between projects, McG cited Michael Bay’s non-existent break between Transformers films, saying “it's terribly exciting to get back out there and show a different face of that idea, and perhaps get out of the apocalyptic world and into a contemporary world. I think the audience is going to be very excited about our way in”.

The director has also revealed that time travel elements are likely to play a part in Terminator 5, and that, according to IGN, the next film will be more of a chase movie than Salvation was. We suspect there'll be at least a three year wait before we see the next movie, however.

Going back to IESB, though, the site asked him how he felt about the fan criticism, and whether he took that much notice of it. McG, born Joseph McGinty Nichol, responded by saying “I listen to everything. It's interesting because a lot of people don't like me, but a lot of people just don't like my name. I can't take that too seriously because that's been my name my whole life. It's not something that I prescribed myself”.

There have, incidentally, also been rumours of a third Charlie’s Angels circling, which may or may not involve McG. Either way, the director has a very busy few years ahead of him...

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