According to The Terminator creator James Cameron, the director would want any franchise reboot to focus on the more relevant contemporary concern of AI instead of haywire robots, which is a wise choice from the blockbuster veteran when it comes to the potential plot of Terminator 7. James Cameron has never followed the rules of Hollywood movie-making.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY This inventive approach has continued to pay off for Cameron, whose risky Avatar: The Way of Water choices recently netted the veteran another Best Picture nomination from the Academy Awards. However, Cameron’s love of risks and his uncompromising vision hasn't always been a formula for box office success. For example, it was Cameron who insisted that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s original T800 had to appear in director Tim Miller’s 2019 flop Terminator: Dark Fate.
The Terminator movies haven’t had a clear path since the second installment in the series. While the first two movies are sci-fi classics, the second sequel derailed the franchise with its convoluted, knotty plotting. While this was already a major issue, to make matters worse, Terminator: Salvation’s heavily recut story turned the franchise into a post-apocalyptic war story rather than a chase thriller, only for the next Terminator sequel to reboot the franchise’s story all over again.
Clearly, the Terminator saga needs a new plot. A story of AI gone wrong could provide this, giving the Terminator series a more topical subject of focus. When The Terminator arrived in cinemas in 1984, the uses of robotic technology appeared to be limitless but, in the decades since, androids have grown less relevant as the world moved online. Now, AI is the biggest source of anxiety in sci-fi movies.
Cameron’s Terminator Reboot Could Still Struggle However, just because the Terminator movies could benefit from a new villain doesn’t mean that this switchover will be a smooth process. After all, the fact that concerns over AI are so widespread means there are already plenty of other movies exploring the ethical issues with artificial intelligence. Some of these are worthy, self-serious dramas, but plenty of them are also fun blockbuster action movies in the vein of the Terminator franchise.
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miss anti testosterone is open to ideas again?
Right, because the Terminator movies were never about an Artificial Intelligence. The robots were just following their programming... done by humans. This is the plot of the Terminator movies. The robots were just human-controlled weapons. This is a good summary of the franchise.
ugh, they are going to 'humanize' the AI, so it has emotions instead of being a killer robot like...you know, a terminator. Another trash terminator movie coming up.
Or just leave it the hell alone, and fans can decide at which point in the series they want to jump off the franchise.
It was always about AI wtf is he talking about? He doesn't even know his own franchise or je does just trying to milk it dry He's so out of touch lately
Pretty sure T3 did that
Wasn't it always about an AI that then built robots to kill the last remnants of humanity it didn't take out with bombs?
so actually try and not make another bad rehash of T2?
Just make it scary/menacing/threading again, like the first one.
Wasn't it always about AI the robots were just it's way to physically kill you.
Um, isn’t it already about AI? Skynet became self aware on august 29, 1997 at 2:14am. In a panic, they tried to pull the plug…
Just call it something else then. Constantly milking the same trademarks is all Hollywood can do now it seems.