It’s no secret that the Terminator franchise has had a rough time of it for quite a while. Although 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate earned better critical reception than Salvation and Genisys, it still didn’t perform well enough at the box office to warrant moving forward with the original trilogy plan. The film series has hung in limbo since then, though James Cameron, who co-created Terminator with Gale Ann Hurd, is still developing a new project for the franchise. However, this work has been “difficult” for him due to a specific reason.
Cameron is making the press rounds for Avatar: Fire and Ash, one of the final 2025 movie releases, and during an interview with io9, he spent some time talking about where things stand with the future of Terminator. Here’s what he had to say when the outlet asked him for an update:
