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James Cameron Planning New Terminator Trilogy

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9 years ago

July 30, 2017

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He’ll Be Back… Again

♦You can’t keep a good killing machine down. Even though the last Terminator film, Genisys, didn’t exactly set the world alight, producer James Cameron has said in an interview with News Australia that he has plans to bring the Terminator back again…

“The question is, has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up? 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 (producer) 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.”

Despite James Cameron’s public support for Terminator: Genisys, he did say in the same interview that he has had his issues with the sequels not directed by him. He even went so far as to say that he only supported Genisys because he was supporting his friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I think it’s fairly widely known that I don’t have a lot of respect for the films that were made later. 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.”

We shall see if anything comes of this but Arnie has talked about resurrecting the Terminator franchise and Cameron does still seem interested especially with the new 3D release of Terminator 2: Judgement Day this summer.

Thanks to MovieWeb