Will the Terminator be back?
Though Terminator: Genisys bombed here in the U.S. ($89.7 million), it still made a whopping $350-plus million internationally, so the franchise definitely has an audience.
With the Terminator rights said to revert back to original director James Cameron in 2019, the Daily Beast catches up with Cameron who thinks Terminator can still work:
It hasnât been hijacked. Itâs really just stumbled along, trying to find its voice again. Thereâs probably some degree to where itâs lost relevance, you know? Maybe the things that made it good back then are kind of a yawn now. Itâs easy to remember fondly the things that kick off a franchise. Itâs hard to keep a franchise vigorous, and relevant. I havenât had my hand on the tiller since Terminator 2, and that was 1991. So whatâs that? Twenty-six years? But look, I think itâs possible to tell a great Terminator story now, and itâs relevant. We live in a digital age, and Terminator ultimately, if you can slow it down, is about our relationship with our own technology, and how our technology can reflect back to usâand in the movie, literally, in a human form that is a nemesis and a threat. But also in those movies, in the two that I did, itâs about how we dehumanize ourselves. In a time when people are being absorbed by their virtual-social world, I mean, just look around. I always say: if Terminator was about the war between the humans and the machines, look around any restaurant or airport lounge and tell me the machines havenât won when every human you see is enslaved to their device. So could you make a relevant Terminator film now? Absolutely.
Back in March of 2016 saw Arnold Schwarzenegger state Terminator 6 is happening, but it seems pretty much in limbo. At one time Paramount was even developing a Terminator universe, but with the disappointment of Terminator: Genisys, it seems things have changed. Emilia Clarke also said she wonât be back for any further Terminator movies.Â
Who knows? Maybe James Cameron has ideas for another Terminator movie?
