Terminator is a franchise that many of us wish had ended long ago. Long before the Rise of the Machines. Before our Salvation. Before the Genisys. Before the franchise took a nosedive and started to feel like a shadow of its former self. With Terminator: Dark Fate, it finally feels like they are headed in the right direction.

The reviews haven’t been glowing, but they are mostly positive, and if audiences mostly agree, this could mean that a new trilogy of films is in order. But what would they even do with the story? Here’s what producer James Cameron told Collider.

“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. And so I believe we’ve set that table and if, like I said, if we get the opportunity, we know where to take the story so that it doesn’t become… I think you start simple and then you elaborate, and you can elaborate over a series of films. If they’re made by the same people with the same intentions and the same philosophy, then there can be a kind of a story arc across multiple films. But that said, I think Dark Fate stands alone as a pretty good one-time story.”

RELATED – Terminator: Dark Fate Runtime Revealed

I kind of do respect the confidence here. In that quote, he pretty much reveals that they still haven’t tackled the big questions they originally wanted to. As it turns out, the story for Dark Fate wasn’t just broken down as a one-off, but they had plans to push things forward, as revealed by Cameron.

“We’ve got a lot of thinking about what things look like up in the future to draw upon, and we sort of know where our storyline is going in broad strokes because we actually had other–I don’t know if you noticed, but the story credits for the movie are a little weird because you’ve also got Chic Eglee and Josh Friedman in the story credits because we sat in the room and we broke story across three movies before we focused down onto the first of the proposed three, which is Dark Fate. So there’s really a plot line that runs all the way out through a third film, if we get to that stage. And the reason for that is you spend a couple of weeks to future-proof yourself so you don’t paint yourself into a corner and you could still do the things that you want to do. So yeah, there’s a lot of good thinking that exists already on that.”

I have yet to see Dark Fate, and our official review from Fox is forthcoming, but if the buzz is real, this may be the first Terminator film I see in theaters since Rise of the Machines. 

What do you think of Cameron’s comments? Are you down for more Terminator, or are you pretty much done with this franchise? Sound off down below!

Don’t forget to share this post on your Facebook wall and with your Twitter followers! Just hit the buttons on the top of this page.

—–

Have you checked out LRM Online’s official podcast feed yet The LRM Online Podcast Network, which includes our flagship podcast Los Fanboys, our premiere podcast Breaking Geek Radio: The Podcast, and our morning show LRMornings? Check it out by listening below. It’s also available on all your favorite podcast apps!

Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts |  Spotify  |  SoundCloud | Stitcher | Google Play

SOURCE: Collider