Get your Terminator VHS movies out of the closet, because it looks like the Terminator really will be back.
The Aliens and The Terminator director is now planning on developing a trilogy of Terminator to reinvent the franchise.
In a recent interview with News.com.au, Cameron revealed his plans:
“…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.”
While Terminator was a huge franchise, Cameron understands the risks of rebooting the franchise.
“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).”
Cameron’s first movie in the trilogy will be directed by Tim Miller, and with Miller directing the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, Deadpool, surely he and Cameron can spin their movie magic skills on the Terminator franchise.
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