That intrigue snowballed into engaged interest and then intensifying enthusiasm.
So he said, ‘Let’s start with a blank slate and take it back to Terminator 2.’ And that idea was intriguing.” “He’s always believed in the potential of Terminator but he really felt that his own film, Genysis - and he was quite honest with me about this - fell short of the mark and didn’t really do what he had wanted it to do. “I suppose it is an unusual situation from a high-level perspective since I wasn’t involved in three intervening films, but when I talked to David Ellison about it his vision for this was basically to go back to basics and do a continuation from Terminator 2, which is one of his favorite films,” Cameron said. (A similar tactic was used by Paramount’s most successful sci-fi brand, Star Trek, when the 2009 film used time travel as both a plot device and as a fresh-start opportunity for canon clutter.) That’s because the time-travel aspects of the new story have been used to effectively erase the events depicted in the three previous installments.Ĭameron said that approach was part of Skydance boss David Ellison’s pitch to bring the creator of John Connor, Skynet and the T-800 Terminator back into the fold by pruning back the mythology. That trio of films may have been forgettable since their release but their status will be downgraded to officially obsolete when Dark Fate opens the day after Halloween.
James Cameron's Reaction To 'Avatar' Losing Box Office Crown: Relief DeadlineĬameron is joined by the franchise’s two signature stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, as well as Edward Furlong, who was a child actor when he portrayed John Connor 28 years ago in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.Ĭameron said “hasta la vista” to the franchise after the mega-success of T2 and turned his attention to a different Schwarzenegger collaboration ( True Lies in 1994), but the filmmaker’s sleek cinematic contraption continued on its metallic march without its creator, adding three feature films of increasing suspect achievement: T erminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003, Terminator: Salvation in 2009 and Terminator Genisys in 2017.