Why "Terminator Salvation" and not "Terminator: Salvation"?
After the success of The Terminator, most of the titles of the franchise have followed the "Terminator: subtitle" template. Examples include:
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Terminator: War of the Machines
- Terminator: Rampage
- Terminator: Future Shock
- Terminator: Dawn of Fate
Then we have Terminator Salvation. What is the significance of the missing colon?
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This is because in T2 & T3, what was listed after Terminator # was a tag line, so requires a colon. With Terminator Salvation it is a single title. You can see it here in the movie posters:
And here with Terminator Salvation you can see it is not a tag line:
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One possibility might also be that the producers wanted to emphasize the fact that they were starting something new. Terminator Salvation was the first movie to be set in the future war against the machines instead of the present with the classic time-travel context and it was also initially planned to start a new trilogy (most probably set entirely in the future).
So in order to emphasize those aspects and distinguishing it from the previous movies, that title change might have been a conscious decision and might have been followed through in future upcoming sequels to it (which don't seem too likely anymore, though, given the reboot planned for 2015).
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