Just a few days ago, we brought you the news that Hannover House and Red Bear Entertainment were developing Terminator 3000, a 3D animated feature film with a $70 million dollar budget, and the production team’s goal of minimizing the violence in order to obtain a PG-13 level of material in the film.

Now, Deadline reports that Pacificor, the company that owns the Terminator rights sent a cease and desist letter in response to Hannover’s press release about Terminator 3000, which was followed by a statement from Hannover’s Eric Parkinson.

Parkinson told them that he had just received his cease and desist letter, and had informed Pacificor’s attorneys of his proprietary rights position, and the fact that he has backers in place to make a movie and deliver a big rights fee to Pacificor.

“We’ve arranged a meeting, we’ll show them our money and if the rational brain prevails, they’ll take the deal. If not, I can’t do it without them. You’ll have a followup next week that we are either holding hands, or not doing the film. At least we now have our meeting. I hope they will can think outside the box, because if we can make a movie that delivers a $20 million to $30 million rights payment, that is an income source they didn’t realize was possible. If not, it was a good idea anyway.”

[The Shakedown]
Nothing about a minimized violence/PG-13 Terminator was a “good idea”. Hopefully Pacificor will see fit to protect the Terminator rights and keep this from happening.