Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
Original ending
McG grins. "Well, that's not really what the ending was."
Actually, the bloggers were on the right track. Except, McG adds, the original ending actually went even further.
"Connor dies, okay? He's dead," McG continues. "And Marcus offers his
physical body, so Connor's exterior is put on top of his machine body.
It looks like Connor, but it's really Marcus underneath. And all of the
characters we care about (Kyle Reese, Connor's wife Kate, etc.) are
brought into the room to see him and they think it's Connor. And Connor
gets up and then there's a small flicker of red in his eyes and he
shoots Kate, he shoots Kyle, he shoots everybody in the room. Fade to
black. End of movie. Skynet wins. F- you!"
F- you, indeed.
We tell the director that this would be the darkest, bleakest summer blockbuster ending of all time. He agrees.
"It's the most nihilistic thing of all time. And Christian went
f-ing crazy, of course. He was insistent that it be done that way! He
wanted the bad guys to win! Can you imagine the oxygen going out of the
theater?! What just happened! It would piss you off! But maybe two
years from now, you'd think it was ballsy. But in the end, it just felt
like too much of a bummer."