Listen, and understand. The Terminator franchise is out there. Skydance Media, who own the rights, can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until they get a box office hit.
In the space of ten years, three new attempts were made at relaunching the classic sci-fi series. Each time we were told this would be the movie the fans had been waiting for, and it would mark the first installment of a brand new trilogy that would see the Terminator brand come roaring back to the forefront of the public consciousness. As the old saying goes; fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. There’s no third part, but if there was it would probably say ,’fool us three times and just give up on the franchise already’.
It looked like the poor box office performance of Dark Fate had hammered the final nail into the cybernetic coffin, but we’ve heard from our sources – the same ones that told us Ben Affleck would be returning as Batman in The Flash weeks before it was confirmed – that yet another Terminator reboot could be in the works, with some big name talent reportedly being eyed.
According to our intel, discussions are already happening behind the scenes at Paramount about trying to resurrect the flagging series after three decades of disappointment, with John Cena and Margot Robbie being bandied about as potential candidates to play a new kind of Terminator and the latest female heroine respectively. At this stage, the series is as good as dead on the big screen, but a potential premium TV series that moves away from the big screen mythology could provide a new spin on the material and wring some more life out of the property if handled correctly.
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