Wednesday 21 May 2014

Selected Fandom (Terminator)

One film franchise that has acquired a large fan base is that of the Terminator films, starting in 1984. As a result of this, three Terminator movies and a Terminator television series followed. To demonstrate how the fan base for these films have remained strong since the first film, the franchise has continued with the latest film being released in 2009. Due to the popularity of the films and the guaranteed fan base there are another two Terminator films that are rumoured to be released.

Rumoured T5 & T6 films: http://www.terminatorfiles.com/saga/t5/


Terminator Salvation Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjX7FwCZa8

The films resulted in fans being involved in the franchise in a whole manner of ways, such as using costumes to mimic the Terminator and even constructing theories on the future and what will happen with technological developments. In addition to these, involvement and references to the films are not exclusive to the fans, but the famous quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger "I'll be back" is used universally.







Due to the following the films have, there is also the creation of a whole database online of features such as characters, locations and the narrative of the films. Due to the success of the films, there was also a large amount of fans that created their own stories, based around the narrative and the Terminator universe.

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Skynet 



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