James Cameron Looking to Give Terminator Franchise a Makeover; New Trilogy
James Cameron’s The Terminator is a masterpiece of bloody sci-fi action. The sequels? Not so much. Even the second one, which Cameron himself felt was kind of like Terminator by Disney. Not that it wasn’t a great film; it just was void of the fright, tension, and grit of the first film. After Judgment Day, things only got worse.
Even Cameron wasn’t a fan of the sequels. “I think it’s fairly widely known that I don’t have a lot of respect for the films that were made later,” Cameron tells News.com.au. “I was supportive at the time in each case for Arnold’s sake because he is a close friend. He has been a mate of mine since 33 years ago so I was always supportive and never too negative. But they didn’t work for me for various reasons.”
So what’s next for the franchise which last found Schwarzenegger’s character as an aging robot(!)?
“The question is — has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up?,” said Cameron, who’s out promoting the 3D release of T2. “Can it still have relevance now where so much of our world is catching up to what was science fiction in the first two films. We live in a world of predator drones and surveillance and big data and emergent AI (artificial intelligence).”
“So I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise, and the rights in the US market revert to me under US copyright law in a year and a half so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it. We’ll put more meat on the bones if we get past the next couple of hurdles as and when we announce that.”
A new reworked trilogy? Bring it on!
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