Terminator 5, aka Genisys, fared badly with critics and audiences, not least for its painful spelling of the title.
The movie was almost saved by a late surge from the Chinese box office, but has, thankfully, been boxed away so that yet another revision can take place.
This time James Cameron is taking charge, with Deadpool director Tim Miller at the helm.
Miller explained his vision for the new movie and tried his hardest (in vain) not to blatantly take a swipe at its predecessor. Cameron went even further and called the last three films, after Terminator 1 and 2, “a bad dream.”
Miller and Cameron feature in a major new interview about the project with The Hollywood Reporter. Cameron explained it was time to realistically portray Schwarzenegger and his cyborg’s age on screen.
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He said: “You don’t have to get around it. The beauty of it is he’s a cyborg. And so, the org part is on the outside, meaning organism… They were supposed to be infiltration units, so there’s this idea that flesh sort of sheaths over a metal endo-skeleton. So that would age normally. So, obviously he’s one that’s been in action and operation for a long time. And that’s all I want to say about the actual story part of it.”
Miller added: “I haven’t talked to Arnold about this so I could get in trouble. But because he’s been in all the other movies — unlike Linda — I do think there needs to be a reason to be different here. I like my sci-fi grounded. I like my characters grounded. And what Jim said about the exterior aging while the interior remains the same — well, not the interior, as in the brain, as emotionally and intellectually he will have evolved. They’re learning machines. But that’s a way to make it different than it was.
“Even in Genisys, he looked — I should stop — he was a slightly gussied-up version of the old Terminator. I think we should embrace his age. And that’s what’s going to make it interesting and fresh for the fans.”
Cameron explained how the timeline would work by basically disregarding Terminators 3-5.
He said: “This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we’re pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse.”