There’s a True Lies TV show in the works with James Cameron executive producing through his Lightstorm Entertainment banner, with the pilot set to be directed by McG, who helmed the only Terminator movie that didn’t feature Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of the cast. Meanwhile, the action icon is set to headline a globetrotting spy series in his first ever major TV role, and yet somehow the two projects aren’t connected.
Only in Hollywood could an episodic series based on one of Schwarzenegger’s best films be in development at the exact same time the actor is tackling a similar show set in exactly the same genre, but that’s the way the world works, and Cameron’s involvement in CBS’ True Lies is probably going to be tokenistic at best given that he’s busy on Pandora for the foreseeable future. There’s no guarantee the pilot will even get a full season order either, especially when there’s so much small screen espionage already on offer and as a full blown reboot, it likely won’t involve many ties to the 1994 blockbuster, if any.
True Lies is one of those sequels that should of happened but never did, with Cameron busying himself with Titanic right after, and by the time he got around to even considering a second installment, the filmmaker decided he had no interest in making an action comedy centered on global terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11.
At various points over the decades Cameron, Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis have all explained why True Lies 2 never happened, but insider Daniel Richtman is claiming that it’s back in development, separate from the TV show. The tipster offers no further details, but with 27 years having passed since the original, that particular ship more than likely sailed a long time ago.
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