By “Avatar: Fire and Ash” has now begun hitting cinemas. Once he’s finished his promotional commitments to it, filmmaker James Cameron says the next “Terminator” will be a priority on his desk.
Speaking with THR, he says, “once the dust clears on Avatar in a couple of months, I’m going to really plunge into” getting to work on completing his script for the next film.
Cameron directed the first two films in the franchise, and confirms he’s working on the project, which he “can safely say” will NOT star Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“He won’t be [in it]. It’s time for a new generation of characters. I insisted Arnold had to be involved in ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, and it was a great finish to him playing the T-800. There needs to be a broader interpretation of Terminator and the idea of a time war and super intelligence. I want to do new stuff that people aren’t imagining.”
He also indicates that it’s tricky to “stay enough ahead of what’s really happening to make it science fiction?” with this project. The film appears to be a relaunch – though it’s not entirely clear if it’ll be a soft relaunch or a hard reboot.
Cameron hasn’t directed a Terminator movie since “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” though he had creative involvement in “Terminator: Dark Fate”, which Tim Miller directed and which received bad reviews, along with losing around $120 million.
He also mentions that he wrote ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action classic “Point Break,” though officially the script is credited to W. Peter Iliff: “I wrote ‘Point Break.’ I flat-out got stiffed by the Writers Guild on that. It was bulls—.”
Cameron did get credit for writing Bigelow’s “Strange Days”.
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