Terminator Reboot

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James Cameron apparently in talks of a reboot. I reckon it should stay as it is, T1 had that old feel to it and was fantastic for its day. T2 was amazing and used practical effects and as well advanced digital effects of the time and still holds up today. A reboot of either will not surpass the cult status of them imo.

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James Cameron Says Another Terminator Reboot Is 'in Discussion' - IGN

James Cameron has revealed that another Terminator reboot is currently "in discussion," but nothing is set in stone at this time.
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I'd rather have a reboot over a continuation, but at this point they're cloning a dead horse in order to kill and beat it again.

I'm a big fan of the Terminator, there's a lot to love about it and some fantastic material out there even outside of the first two movies. Unfortunately pretty much every film post T2 is not among that, although Salvation wasn't entirely awful. They should have given up the Arnie obsession and not played into the PG13 trend (coupled with weird sex appeal), Terminator 3 could have went well if they had mixed things up. Back in the day I'd have loved to see Snipes play a Terminator, great physique and he could pull that "cold" look, plenty of other missed opportunities too.
 
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At least it's Cameron as he did the first two movies .
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He was also an executive producer on that god-awful Terminator: Dark Fate movie which took a huge steaming poop on all of Cameron's Terminator "world" within its first 5 minutes, so I'm not hopeful in any way, shape or form that the person who dreamed up something epic nearly 40 years ago is still able to do the same again now (same with Ridley Scott).

Personally, despite being a huge nerdy "mega-fan" of the franchise, I just want it to be left alone to die, there's no more blood money to be kicked out of the corpse that is the franchise now, let it go.
 
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He was also an executive producer on that god-awful Terminator: Dark Fate movie which took a huge steaming poop on all of Cameron's Terminator "world" within its first 5 minutes, so I'm not hopeful in any way, shape or form that the person who dreamed up something epic nearly 40 years ago is still able to do the same again now (same with Ridley Scott).

Personally, despite being a huge nerdy "mega-fan" of the franchise, I just want it to be left alone to die, there's no more blood money to be kicked out of the corpse that is the franchise now, let it go.
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Cameron was only slightly involved with Dark Fate and wasn't on site when they were filming unlike like the first two. Regardless, reboot not a sequel so the same story. We'll see what happens I guess.
 
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He "OK'd" the story/script whilst writing some of it, he edited the movie against the wishes of the director (who said he won't ever work with Cameron again), he got Linda Hamilton to come back against her better judgement (took numerous calls before she relented and she now regrets doing it) and he is still "reasonably happy" with the failed movie even now seeing how badly it did for the fans as well as financially.

For me, those are enough to be very, very concerned about any Terminator story he's involved in ever again. As I mentioned above about Ridley Scott - both directors have lost their way with their original franchises and both have only hurt them by coming back to them.

Script - https://collider.com/terminator-dark-fate-new-trilogy/

Editor - https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/j...fate-editing-creative-differences-1202186192/

Hamilton - https://www.theterminatorfans.com/h...a-hamilton-to-return-in-terminator-dark-fate/

Hamilton won't do another - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...uld-be-happy-never-return-terminator-1274687/

Happy with DF - https://www.ign.com/articles/james-...ailed-refused-leave-out-arnold-schwarzenegger
 
A total reboot would be dumb, if they actually come up with a good idea to scrub anything post T2 and have a proper finale movie (or something that sets up a couple more movies) then I'd rather see that. Its not rocket science, the future war is what people want to see, not a "Salvation" version of it either which had 1 t600 in a 50 mile radius and nothing but empty space everywhere. It would make much more sense to have it in that type of setting rather than have the standard "modern day" movie that just screams this is a worse version of T2.

There's a lot of potential to have a movie in the future war setting, for some reason they've been reluctant to try it and try to play it safe (and fail) with a T2 clone for the most part. Salvation somehow cost $200 million and that's a movie mainly set in the desert ffs.
 
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A reboot done right would be amazing though.
I think they should avoid using Arnie in the main role. Obv still have his CGI'd younger self as the terminator grunts, but I think that the main terminator character should be someone new. But who?

I think it can be done. The team need to look at the franchise as well as others (Transformers is a warning too) and make sure they get it right.
 
even T2 **** all over the first one's premise. the only story i'd be interested in seein would be the future war and the battle to get Kyle into the time machine. and all T800 stuff, none of this uber liquid metal rubbish.
 
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