James Cameron announces he's writing a new Terminator movie

Why Terminator 7 Is Happening: James Cameron's Surprise New Script Explained

Despite a string of highly-criticized sequels, the Terminator franchise originated by James Cameron refuses to fade out of American cinema.

https://screenrant.com/terminator-7-why-franchise-failed-continue/

Time for Cameron to give it up with The Terminator. The franchise died a long time ago.

Full reboot, integrated with video games, novels, comics, tv shows, card games, you name it. All rebuilt from the ground up. Only way to do it. You have to reset the continuity and leave out the ending. He's no longer the man for the job cause that's a full time commitment for life and he's doing Avatar instead.

He should of written it when he still had talent, little late now.

If Cameron writes it (properly, not offer a few ideas and then 6 others write Dark Fate style) who'd be likely to direct?

Robert Rodriguez (an obvious choice . directed Cameron's Battle Angel)

Neill Blomkamp (has a connection with Cameron with the Aliens sequel/alternate Alien3, apparently Cameron liked it.)

Denis Villenerve (an obvious choice after Blade Runner 2049, was approached for T5)

Ridley Scott (was rumoured to direct T3 after Gladiator. Maybe the same could happen after Gladiator 2? Doubtful but who knows)

Justin Lin (was attached to direct T5 & 6 back to back before Genisys was produced instead, did a decent job with Star Trek Beyond despite the script)

Rian Johnson (probably too busy with the KnivesOut franchise. but Looper was a pretty decent time travel action film, and was approached for T5)

Alex Garland (Dredd, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs)

Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One, forthcoming AI thriller The Creator)

I was hoping Disney would buy this franchise and just reboot it

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/11/terminator-7-james-cameron-ai

James Cameron is challenging himself to create the next "Terminator" movie, the filmmaker told Axios in an interview Wednesday night.

Why it matters: His depiction of AI gone horribly wrong has helped shape the public's fear of the technology since the first "Terminator" was released 40 years ago.

But now, as AI has spread, reality and imagination are merging.

What he's saying: "It's very difficult to write science fiction when you're living in a science fiction world," Cameron said.

Some of the social issues stemming from generative AI, including job displacement, will get "worked out."

However, he added: "The actual kind of existential threat to the human species — that's not quite here yet. But it's close. It's adjacent."

Yes, but: While he says he's still "exploring the type of story" he wants to tell, he also says that because he's "innately kind of optimistic about the human spirit ... Thematically that will be there."

What we're watching: Cameron said there's no script yet for a seventh film.

"We may look at a multi-film arc, or we may just do one," he said.

"I have accepted the challenge of figuring it out."

Zoom out: Earlier on Wednesday, Cameron told Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost at a related event that he doesn't take credit for inventing the idea of evil AI.

He nodded to characters like HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the film "Colossus: The Forbin Project."

"But I did put it together with weapons of mass destruction," he said.

The intrigue: Cameron said that if he were "a newly aware super intelligence," the last thing he would do is start a nuclear war.

"All those electromagnetic pulses would really mess up all my cognitive capability."

Still, Cameron warns against putting AI "in charge of weapon systems."

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