James Cameron Is Still Working on Mysterious New Terminator Stuff

A caller Terminator animated amusement is coming retired this month but franchise creator James Cameron has thing to bash with it. Instead, helium once again teased that he’s moving connected thing Terminator himself, though helium won’t accidental what it is.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Cameron was asked astir the caller Netflix amusement Terminator Zero that starts August 29 and responded with the following. “It looks interesting,” helium said. “My narration to that is precise overmuch similar The Sarah Connor Chronicles—other radical spinning stories successful a satellite I acceptable successful question is absorbing to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them astir it? Where are they going with it? It looks similar they’re going backmost to the basal origin of Judgment Day—the atomic war—and whether that’s an eventual timeline. I’d beryllium funny to spot what they’ve travel up with. I’m moving connected my ain Terminator worldly close now. It’s got thing to bash with that. Like with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, they occasionally touched connected things I had been playing with wholly independently. So there’s immoderate curiosity there. It’s not a burning curiosity, but, obviously, it’d beryllium bully to spot it succeed.”

The newsman keyed successful connected Cameron saying “I’m moving connected my ain Terminator worldly close now. It’s got thing to bash with that” and followed up. Cameron’s response: “It’s wholly classified. I don’t privation to person to nonstop retired a perchance unsafe robotic cause if you were to speech astir it, adjacent retroactively.”

Cameron should instrumentality his ain proposal then. Back successful 2022, 3 years aft the underrated Terminator: Dark Fate, Cameron hinted determination mightiness beryllium a caller movie successful the works. A twelvemonth later, he mentioned it again, saying helium was waiting to spot however the satellite embraced AI earlier moving ahead. So intelligibly this is thing he’s been reasoning astir and possibly adjacent moving on. And, it won’t person thing to bash with the caller show. But for america Terminator fans retired determination who thought Dark Fate was precisely that for the franchise, arsenic agelong arsenic Cameron keeps mentioning it, we cognize there’s a chance.

Head implicit to the Hollywood Reporter to work the full interview, successful which Cameron confirms he’d similar to nonstop each the Avatar movies, squashes a beef with different celebrated director, and conscionable mostly gets truly saucy.

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