Drawn back to the “Terminator” franchise because of his concerns about the future of the human species, James Cameron didn’t exactly return the series to its former glory by executive producing “Dark Fate.” Apparently, it was his idea to start the film off with a digital recreation of Edward Furlong’s murdered John Connor, making the events of his classic “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” meaningless.
But with all this talk of AI takeover and the general “T2”-like sense of doom that has descended on the world in recent years, the director of “Avatar: The Way of Water” is surely tempted to retake the reins of his Franchise “Terminator” in its entirety. Late last year, the so-called “King of the Box Office” visited Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes’ “Smartless” podcast, where he said:
“If I were to do another ‘Terminator’ movie and maybe try to launch that franchise again, which is up for discussion, but nothing has been decided, I would make it much more about the AI side than bad robots running amok. “.
There have also been some rumors (including this tweet and This) that Cameron spoke at the Dell Technologies World 2023 conference this week and said he had begun writing a new “Terminator” movie, but would wait until the direction of the AI became clearer. Those are not confirmed at this time. Still, even from his comments on the podcast, Cameron is interested enough to at least try to reboot the franchise he built, but a few things will have to come together before we can get another “Terminator” movie.
