James Cameron has hinted at fresh Terminator flicks on the horizon.
The legendary 70 year old director, famed for kicking off the Terminator series, has whipped up excitement by suggesting there’s “more than a plan” in store for the iconic sci-fi saga.
Chatting with Empire magazine, James dished out: “It’s more than a plan. That’s what we’re doing. That’s all I’ll say for right now.”
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This juicy tidbit comes as The Terminator, starring muscle man Arnold Schwarzenegger and action heroine Linda Hamilton, hits its 40th-anniversary milestone.
While the Titanic maestro’s role in any upcoming Terminator projects is still up in the air, given his jam-packed schedule with the Avatar sequels (with another one dropping in 2025), he’s spilled the beans on the need for spanking new tales in the Terminator universe.
Cameron confessed: “You get too inside it, and then you lose a new audience because the new audience care much less about that stuff than you think they do.”
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He added: “That’s the danger, obviously, with Avatar as well, but I think we’ve proven that we have something for new audiences.”
He elaborated on the franchise’s core, saying: “You’ve got powerless main characters, essentially, fighting for their lives, who get no support from existing power structures, and have to circumvent them but somehow maintain a moral compass. And then you throw AI into the mix.
“Those principles are sound principles for storytelling today, right? So I have no doubt that subsequent Terminator films will not only be possible, but they’ll kick a**. But this is the moment where you jettison all the specific iconography.”
James has previously confessed that certain aspects of ‘The Terminator are “pretty cringeworthy”.
He stated: “I don’t think of it as some Holy Grail, that’s for sure. I look at it now and there are parts of it that are pretty cringeworthy, and parts of it that are like, ‘Yeah, we did pretty well for the resources we had available.’
“Just the production value, you know? I don’t cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write. You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films – then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness.”
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