James Cameron blames Terminator: Dark Fate flop on AGES of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton

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James Cameron has blamed the flop of 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate on the ages of its leads Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.Avator director Cameron, 68, who wrote and produced the film alongside director Tim Miller, 58, said the choice to bring back Schwarzenegger, 75, and Hamilton, 66 as Sarah Connor resulted in the flick becoming 'your granddad’s Terminator movie'.Dark Fate - a direct sequel to 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day - lost more than $120million at the box office, ruling out any chance of further sequels.

They won't be back: James Cameron has blamed the flop of 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate on the ages of its leads Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Linda Hamilton (right) Avatar director Cameron told Deadline: 'I think the problem, and I’m going to wear this one, is that I refused to do it without Arnold.

Tim didn’t want Arnold, but I said, "Look, I don’t want that. Arnold and I have been friends for 40 years, and I could hear it, and it would go like this: "Jim, I can’t believe you’re making a Terminator movie without me.’ Adding that he wasn't particularly invested in the film to begin with, he continued: 'It just didn’t mean that much to me to do it, but I said, "If you guys could see your way clear to bringing Arnold back and then, you know, I’d be happy to be involved."'And then Tim wanted Linda.

I think what happened is I think the movie could have survived having Linda in it, I think it could have survived having Arnold in it, but when you put Linda and Arnold in it and then, you know, she’s 60-something, he’s 70-something, all of a sudden it wasn’t your Terminator movie, it wasn’t even your dad’s Terminator movie, it was your granddad’s Terminator movie.