LONDON — James Cameron says he won’t be back — and he doesn’t think the Terminator should be either.
“I’ve moved on creatively from The Terminator, so I’m not really interested in that imagery and even those ideas anymore — and I’m not sure the world is that interested either. It’s run its course, I feel.”
As evidence of this, he points to this summer’s disappointing Terminator Salvation which attempted to continue the series without Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“His persona was part of The Terminator and when you uncouple those, you get Terminator Salvation, which is actually a fine film from a pure filmmaking standpoint — it just doesn’t gel up into anything mind-blowing.”
The subject is a timely one since the rights to the franchise were put up for auction in November by Halycon, the production company responsible for Terminator Salvation.
“I wish I hadn’t sold the rights for one dollar,” Cameron says, referring to a deal he struck in exchange for the chance to direct the 1984 original.
“If I had a little time machine and I could only send back something the length of a tweet, it’d be — ‘Don’t sell.’”
