Despite decent reviews, the last Terminator movie, Dark Fate, was the latest instalment in the franchise to underperform at the box office, and it generally assumed that it'd be a very long time before we see the war against the machines continue on the big screen.
The saga may be taking a (possibly permanent) break in live-action, but original Terminator and sequel Terminator: Judgement Day director James Cameron has revealed that he is working on a new Terminator project - though that's about all he'd say about it!
The legendary filmmaker shared the surprising news while speaking to THR about the upcoming Netflix animated series, Terminator Zero.
"It looks interesting. My relationship to that is very much like The Sarah Connor Chronicles — other people spinning stories in a world I set in motion is interesting to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them about it? Where are they going with it? It looks like they’re going back to the root cause of Judgment Day — the nuclear war — and whether that’s an ultimate timeline. I’d be curious to see what they’ve come up with. I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with that. Like with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, they occasionally touched on things I had been playing with completely independently. So there’s some curiosity there. It’s not a burning curiosity, but, obviously, it’d be nice to see it succeed."
"It’s totally classified," he added when asked for more details. "I don’t want to have to send out a potentially dangerous robotic agent if you were to talk about it, even retroactively."
Before fans get too excited, this "Terminator stuff" really could be anything. There's a chance it's a movie or live-action series, but it's just as likely to be a comic book or novel.
In the same interview, Cameron confirmed that he's still planning to direct the next three Avatar movies.
"Sure. Absolutely. I mean, they’re going to have to stop me. I got plenty of energy, love doing what I’m doing. Why would I not? And they’re written, by the way. I just reread both of them about a month ago. They’re cracking stories. They’ve got to get made. Look, if I get hit by a bus and I’m in an iron lung, somebody else is going to do it."
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