Terminator reboot being planned by James Cameron

Filmmaker James Cameron has expressed his interest in returning to Terminator for a reboot of the iconic action films. I'm not against it, you know.

You'd think that Cameron has his hands full for the next decade. Avatar 2: The Way of Water premiered last week, Avatar 3 is apparently "95%" complete with a nine hour runtime at the moment, and the first act of Avatar 4 has been filmed. Nevertheless, Cameron has been clear that the existence of Avatar 4 and 5 is dependent on the financial success of the second and third films. Given that Avatar 2 is flagging, raking in $555.9 million at the box office with an aim of reaching $1 billion in the new year, the director might be freed up to follow a potential Terminator reboot.

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Appearing on the SmartLess podcast, Cameron admitted that he has been ruminating on a reboot of one of the most impactful franchises of the '80s. "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," he expounded.

One thing is certain - whatever Cameron does next, it'll be bigger, better and more bombastic than the previous. Those wishing for a much more introspective examination of synthetic intelligence, robotics and dystopian futures in this hypothetical Terminator reboot will be left wanting.

“I’m way over this whole thing, this question that I get asked all the time,” responded the director in an interview with GQ in November. “‘Don’t you want to just make a little movie with just a couple of actors?’ It’s like: Yeah, I make that movie every time I make a big movie. On a given day I might be doing a scene with two actors in a room, me handholding the camera. How is that any different than the smallest independent film? It’s just that maybe the next day I’m doing a battle with 40,000 people. I like to do that too.”