Cameron Wants To Erase ‘Bad Dream’ Terminator Sequels

It looks like we can finally move on, now that Jim Cameron has stuck his oar back into the Terminator franchise (along with Tim Miller).  It was all just a fucking bad dream.  Thank God.

Speaking with THR about the new direction, Cameron says:

This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we’re pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse. This was really driven more by [Tim] than anybody, surprisingly, because I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it. The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century.”

He also says he wants Linda Hamilton to show them how it’s done.  Sorry Lena Headey…

“It took me a week just to get up the nerve. No, that’s not true. Linda and I have a great relationship. We’ve stayed friends through the thick and thin of it all. And she is the mother of my eldest daughter.

So I called her up, and I said: “Look, we could rest on our laurels. It’s ours to lose, in a sense. We created this thing several decades ago. But, here’s what can be really cool. You can come back and show everybody how it’s done. Because in my mind, it hasn’t been done a whole lot since the way she did it back in ’91.”

It’s going to be interesting to see what they attempt here.  And maybe Cameron can save Arnold from himself.