James Cameron is still planning on bringing us more Terminator movies in the future.
While the director is hard at work mapping out the planned four Avatar sequels, he has revealed that he is currently in negotiations to produce a new “three-film arc” and that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved “to some extent”.
“The question is — has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up?,” said Cameron. “Can it still have relevance now where so much of our world is catching up to what was science fiction in the first two films. We live in a world of predator drones and surveillance and big data and emergent AI (artificial intelligence). So I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise and the rights in the US market revert to me under US copyright law in a year and a half so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it. We’ll put more meat on the bones if we get past the next couple of hurdles as and when we announce that.”