Super excited that this little project of mine (and producer Mark Burman’s) is nearly ready to be switched on and booted up…
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2024/13/ill-be-back-40-years-of-the-terminator
“It was the machines, Sarah…a new order of intelligence. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.” So says Kyle Reese, time travelling freedom fighter in The Terminator.
Released in the perfectly fitting year of 1984, The Terminator was a low budget, relentless slice of science fiction noir, drawing on years of pulp science fiction to conjure a future nightmare of humanity hunted to near extinction by the machines it created. In 2029, just 5 years away now, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s unstoppable cyborg killer is sent back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the yet-to-be mother of humanity’s saviour-to-come. Fate, redemption & the destructive power of A.I. all made in the analogue age but still influencing the way many imagine our new age of Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Beth Singler re-visits the making of the film with producer Gale Anne Hurd and explores its lasting influence. Forty years on, and the circular self-contained time travel plot of The Terminator has been cracked wide open, letting out alternative timelines and delayed apocalypses: more films, a television show, graphic novels, comics, video games, theme park rides and even memes have spread versions of the original robopocalypse. More than that, the first Terminator has given us a vocabulary and a vision for the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
With the voices of Gale Anne Hurd, vfx guru Paul Franklin, Sean French- author of the BFI classic, AI researcher & writer Eliezer Yudkowsky & UCL’s professor of science & technology, Jack Stilgoe.
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Professor Beth Singler 