Last year, Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day director James Cameron revealed that he was developing a mysterious a new project. That was literally all we had to go on (and still is, pretty much) at the time, but the legendary filmmaker has now confirmed that he is still working on the script - even though he has hit a bit of a roadblock.
"I've been tasked with writing a new Terminator story," he tells CNN. "I've been unable to get [very far] on that... I don't know what to say that won't be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science fiction age right now."
When the first Terminator came out in the '80s, the movie's premise did seem a lot more far-fetched than it does today, and the advent of AI has resulted in a very real fear that the technology could become too advanced and ultimately become self-aware.
Despite decent reviews, the last movie, Dark Fate, was the latest instalment in the franchise to underperform at the box office, and it was generally assumed that it'd be a very long time before we see the war against the machines continue on the big screen.
However, Cameron revealed that the franchise would continue with a new live-action project while speaking to THR about the Netflix animated series, Terminator Zero, in a 2024 interview.
"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."
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