James Cameron Confirms He's Still Working on His "Classified" TERMINATOR Project
About a year ago we learned that James Cameron was writing a new Terminator movie. He explained that the project is heavily inspired by AI, and before he finishes it, he wants to see how things play out with AI in the real world.
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter Cameron was asked about Netflix’s Terminator Zero and he said: “It looks interesting.
“My relationship to that is very much like The Sarah Connor Chronicles — other people spinning stories in a world I set in motion is interesting to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them about it? Where are they going with it?”
He continues: “It looks like they’re going back to the root cause of Judgment Day — the nuclear war — and whether that’s an ultimate timeline.
“I’d be curious to see what they’ve come up with. I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with that.”
When talking about the new Terminator project, he said: “It’s totally classified. I don’t want to have to send out a potentially dangerous robotic agent if you were to talk about it, even retroactively.”
Cameron previously revealed: “If I were to do another Terminator film and maybe try to launch that franchise again, which is in discussion, but nothing has been decided, I would make it much more about the AI side of it than bad robots gone crazy.”
He also expanded on what future sequels would entail, saying: “I feel like one of my major motivations on this film or coming back to the, hopefully franchise, was to explore the human relationship with artificial intelligence.
“I don't feel we did that in Dark Fate. I feel that we set the stage or we set the table for that exploration, and that exploration would take place in a second film and a third film. And we know exactly where we're going to take that idea.
“What we wanted to get in the first movie was this idea that it's just going to keep happening. The names will change, but the basic conflict is going to continue to take place until it gets resolved one way or the other.”
The filmmaker also previously shared his thoughts on AI: "Well, I'm not 'afraid' but I'm certainly pretty concerned about the potential for misuse of A.I. I think A.I. can be great, but also it could literally be the end of the world.
“You talk to all of the A.I. scientists — and I know a bunch of them — and every time I put my hand up at their seminars or something, they just start laughing. 'Oh, that's the Skynet Guy, sure, we really want to hear from you.'
“The point is that no technology has ever not been weaponized. And do we really want to be fighting something smarter than us that isn't us on our own world? I don't think so."
He went on to say that it’s possible the machines have already taken over: "Look, an A.I. could've taken over the world and already be manipulating it, and we just don't know because it would have control over all of the media and everything.
“And what better explanation for how absurd everything is right now. Because nothing makes a damn bit of sense to me, I don't know about you."
I’m actually excited to see what kind of Terminator story Cameron is going to come up with and I hope that he actually get to make the movie after the last couple reboot attempts didn’t do very well.