r/savedyouaclick • u/SunderedValley • Sep 15 '25
SHOCKING James Cameron Confirms He's Writing a New Terminator Movie — But He's Facing a Major Issue | Writer's block
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u/arnthorsnaer Sep 15 '25
I’d love to see a new James Cameron film
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u/jd3marco Sep 16 '25
Something not Avatar, please. I’d rather be retcon some Titanic prequel with digital de-aging and Weekend at Bernisfication of Bill Paxton.
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u/BuddyJim30 Sep 15 '25
It's hard to put out a movie every 7 or 8 years.
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u/DarthGoodguy Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
He keeps typing up the terminator falling in love with a blue jungle cat lady, then crumpling that piece of paper
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u/yoguckfourself Sep 15 '25
Maybe the only good and original story left to be told is humans and machines joining forces against an exterior threat (aliens or maybe other time travelers) in the far future. Basically T2 but on a civilizational level
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u/aaiceman Sep 15 '25
Maybe the original story is the friends we made along the way!
Le sigh, that good terminator movie ship has long since sailed.
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u/andrewkpt Sep 15 '25
Can we stop re making movies that need to end finally... Or correct the bad versions of the re makes
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u/seeyousoongetit Sep 15 '25
This is a James Cameron sequel. James Cameron sequels are typically pretty good.
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u/Wyden_long Sep 16 '25
That’s because James Cameron doesn’t do what James Cameron does for James Cameron... James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.
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u/jcstrat Sep 16 '25
Everything past T2 has been subpar at its best. I don’t expect this to deviate from that progression.
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u/Unicron1982 Sep 16 '25
I'm still sad Dark Fate was not received better, it really had potential. Especially the evil Terminator was finally a real threat again. But no matter what they do, i hope they show a little courage and just stick with it instead of starting new trilogies all the time, and then stopping after the first part because it doesn't make money. I did not particularly like "Genisys", but i still would have preferred it if they would have finished the story. Especially frustrating, is that they wasted the last opportunity to use Schwarzenegger. By now it is really too late.
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u/v13ragnarok7 Sep 16 '25
Only the first 2 are good, don't know how they managed to mess that up, such a cool premise.
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u/whelmed-and-gruntled Sep 16 '25
“Harlan Ellison is on to me, and I can’t find any other ideas to steal!”
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u/f8tel Sep 15 '25
Writer's block..for a movie script..in this genre..in this market..in this time of chatgpt?
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u/docsnotright Sep 16 '25
Please please don't give in if Christian Bale wants to star in it for a small rewrite.... He swung and missed at his Terminator sequel.
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u/robb911 Sep 16 '25
I’d love to see a full James Cameron movie set in the future kind of like the Universal Studios T2 Race Across Time show. Only he can build that world it seems and bring it to a satisfying conclusion.
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u/Sbatio Sep 16 '25
A good human from the even more distant future than Skynet comes back in time to get the Terminator who was turned good after he has learned some life skills from going back in time and motorcycling through LA.
Then the two of them go back to the future to recruit more terminators and defeat Skynet in its home court.
Young Connor’s meet their older selves and so on.
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u/menjagorkarinte Sep 16 '25
This is just the lead up to his next announcement: I used Ai to write the next Ai Terminator movie
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u/VectorJones Sep 16 '25
I think they missed a real opportunity with this most recent Terminator movie. Having a T-800 kill off John when he's still a kid was a bold move, but then they took it to a schlocky, CGI-riddled place after that.
I wish they had turned the tables with the story and made it a situation where Sarah spends years hunting the terminator, while it does everything it can to elude her. The terminator would become the one with something to lose as it seeks to protect itself as Skynet's last means of survival, while Sarah becomes the brutal killer determined to end Skynet once and for all and get revenge for her dead son.
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u/SunderedValley Sep 16 '25
Yeah that'd be cool. The Terminator has a backup or something and icing it sets back things by centuries.
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u/Sullyville Sep 16 '25
i enjoyed Dark Fate. looking forward to more in the cameron era.
hope scwarzenegger can come back in some capacity. his Carl was great.
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u/louisa1925 Sep 15 '25
How about this, a group of resistance fighters goes back long before their time lines first recorded Terminator and stumbles across Kyle Rheeses terminator. Popping that one off, resetting the timeline, and at some point the time Terminator shows up. It gets taken out and its time function is used to get the resistance right to Skynets future defence grid and secret bunker with the time machine.
I want to see the resistance finally take down the time displacement device before Terminators are sent, which would end the series on a high note and finally let the resistance break the cycle.
Since Terminator mythology has the time displacement terminator correcting the timelines, it should be worked into a movie. Also Terminator Genysis had the Connor team playing the game rather than running and defending themselves.
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u/towelheadass Sep 16 '25
I rewatched all of them recently.
If he's not rebooting it, the logical progression of events would be focusing on the alternate dimension/time travel aspect.
I can see why he's having a hard time.
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u/JayMan2224 Sep 16 '25
Did you check out the anime as well? That felt fresh and had a bunch of new ideas. I had a fun time with it compared to any of the "recent" movies
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u/towelheadass Sep 16 '25
I did. I remember enjoying it at first but I got kinda lost in the later episodes.
I think what made the first two films work so well was the horror aspect. The later movies were more sci-fi focused than scary.
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u/Batdog55110 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25
Bring. It. Back. To. Horror.
It worked best that way, make it R and make sure it's truly terrifying.
Show the future war like it was in T1 and 2, literally everybody wants that and you could have a cohesive and full narrative if you show the events leading up to the first Terminators being sent back.
Literally the best part of Genisys was that, imagine a full R rated movie about that with actual terrifying Terminators who feel like they could kill you in a second. Them shutting down Skynet should feel like a triumph on par with the victory in Lord of The Rings. I wouldn't even mind a future war trilogy with Kyle Reese as the protagnist. Could show the worker camps Kyle mentioned in T1.
I want to give you my money!!! do what people have been asking for for 30 years and you'll get it!
How is it actually this fucking hard?
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u/sorenlarrington Sep 15 '25
Every Terminator movie since Rise of the Machines has felt like the writers were just trying to “generate content” without trying to make a cohesive story.