During the press tour for AvatarTheWayofWater, JamesCameron pondered rebooting the Terminator franchise. Here are 5 reasons why that is a bad idea.
Director James Cameron recently proposed his plan to reboot the Terminator franchise … again. In an interview on the podcast “SmartLess,” Cameron said: “If I were to do another Terminator film and maybe try to launch that franchise again, which is in discussion, but nothing has been decided, I would make it much more about the AI side of it than bad robots gone crazy.”
Seeing how Dark Fate was just the latest Terminator film to fail at the box office, it’s clear that people have lost interest in watching the titular killing machines come back time and time again. Unless the filmmakers use a smaller budget for a new sequel, they could risk making another box-office bomb.
The Terminators are pretty much the same Judgment Day reinvigorated the standard Terminator with the shapeshifting T-1000, a significant upgrade of the T-800. However, the Terminators that followed have since modeled themselves onthe T-1000 to the point that there not so different from each other. Machines like the T-X and the Rev-9 continue to share the ability to shap-eshift, regenerate, and create weapons, with only slight variations in their abilities.
Even when Dark Fate created a new timeline with new characters, the overall story was still the same, with Sarah Connor and a Terminator once again trying to protect the future savior of humanity from an evil AI. Also, the fact that Dark Fate had new female characters fill in the archetypes created with John Connor and Kyle Reese came across to many people as a hollow attempt to appeal to modern audiences.
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