Yahoo News James Cameron in talks to produce 3 more Terminators
The Terminator franchise is, by this point, the cockroach of Hollywood – no matter how many times you drop a (box office) bomb on it, it still doesn't die.
Now James Cameron has said that he has plans for not one, but three, more movies but he won't be directing them – so what's the point, James? What's the point?!
Anyway, speaking to News.com.au, Cameron spoke about his plans to keep the franchise alive (against its will):
"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.
"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."
Previous attempts to continue the franchise beyond Cameron's first two classics ended up rehashing rather than refreshing, and are pretty much hated.
Cameron is seemingly one of those haters, adding: "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... but they didn't work for me for various reasons."
Here is an example of Cameron being "supportive at the time" for Terminator: Genisys, which he called 'reinvigorating' and 'a renaissance':
Can't say we agree, but it had lots of shirtless Jai Courtney, so that was nice.
Skydance's David Ellison recently said that a big announcement regarding the franchise is due this year.
Before that, though, we are getting a 3D re-release of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (the best one).
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