TERMINATOR: GENISYS Director Alan Taylor Said The Film Made Him "Lose The Will To Live as a Director"

The Terminator franchise has had a rough time since Terminator 2: Judgement Day. None of the other films that have been made have been able to reach the bar that movie set. One of the more disappointing movies in the bunch was director Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genisys.

Taylor has worked on a lot of really cool projects in his career including shows like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Sopranos, and more. But, Terminator: Genisys was the project that made him "lose the will to live as a director."

The filmmaker was excited about the opportunity to collaborate with Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron, and he thought he could make his own contributions to correct the issues he had with the script, but that all lead to a horrible experience for him.

In an interview with THR, the filmmaker shared, “Well, [girlfreind and storyboard artist Jane Wu] read the script. She said, ‘You should be doing something you love right now, something that’s more personal.’ But the voices in my head, and all the ones around me, were saying I should do it because who didn’t love the first two films? I thought we would go in and fix the script and everything could be great.”

But, everything turned out to not be so great. Taylor said, “I had lost the will to make movies. I lost the will to live as a director. I’m not blaming any person for that. The process was not good for me. So I came out of it having to rediscover the joy of filmmaking.”

Damn, that sucks. It’s a shame that it wasn’t a better experience for him, but when you go in to helm a movie like this, that’s part of a big popular franchise, there are just too many people who have a say in what that movie should be and in the end that’s the reason we got the film that was released.