The Terminator is one of the most beloved film franchises of all time, but is there a new entry in the series on the way? Read on to find out.The classic sci-fi/action movies began with James Cameron’s original The Terminator in 1984, which introduced the world of Skynet, an artificial intelligence that has initiated a nuclear apocalypse.Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin travels from the future on a mission to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) to prevent her from giving birth to the future leader of the human resistance, John Connor.Cameron, who had only previously directed 1982’s Piranha II: The Spawning, co-wrote the film with Gale Anne Hurd, and based it on a fever dream he experienced.
Made for a modest $6.4million (£5.1million), it was a major box office success, grossing $78million (£62million).Its success led to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, often regarded as one of the greatest sequels of all time.
Also directed by Cameron, that film introduced state-of-the-art CGI to depict the liquid metal of the villainous T-1000.Four further films have since been released: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
The later sequels were not as critically acclaimed and explored variants of the franchise’s timeline.The films have been trending in recent weeks as Terminator: Dark Fate recently arrived on Netflix for the first time, leading some to believe that there may be a new instalment on its way.James Cameron has been dedicating most of his creative time in recent years to his four planned sequels to Avatar, the first of which, Avatar: The Way Of Water, arrived in 2022.No new film in the franchise has been.
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