Terminator, the film that launched Cameron on his career as an action filmmaker, and also helped Schwarzenegger solidify his standing as a 1980s movie icon.
In 1991, Schwarzenegger and Cameron would re-team for the blockbuster sequel Avatar. Now, with the Terminator franchise getting ready for its latest reboot, Cameron is officially back onboard and so too is Schwarzenegger, with Tim Miller in the director's chair.
Speaking to Flicks and the City (in a since-removed interview, via Cinema Blend), Cameron made it clear that he wouldn't in fact have considered returning to produce Dark Fate had Schwarzenegger not also come back. Cameron explained:
I said 'Look I'd love to be involved in this, but I can't be involved in a Terminator movie without working with my good friend of 35 years, Arnold Schwarzenegger, even if it's to officially the baton to a new generation of characters. So that's what we all agreed to do. Then the question became what about Linda [Hamilton], does Linda want to come back?
Of course, was played by Emilia Clarke in Genisys and on TV's Sarah Connor Chronicles by Lena Headey).
The new film picks up the action decades after Judgment Day, while completely ignoring the three other Terminator movies that have come since (which probably doesn't bother Hamilton as a mysterious type of human/cyborg hybrid.
Having the old band back together for Terminator: Dark Fate is certainly good news for old school Terminator fans who don't think the franchise has been nearly as good since Cameron and Hamilton were last involved. Of course, the new characters are there to carry on the legacy after Dark Fate hopefully successfully reboots the franchise - the key word being "successfully," after Salvation and Genisys both failed to get the job done.
Source: Flicks and the City (via Cinema Blend)
