Rumors have been circulating that the director, James Cameron will return to make yet another Terminator movie in the franchise. It is also rumored that Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in 1992’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, will be reprising his role as the said character in the potential Terminator 7.
According to The Terminator Fans website:
“According to our intel, discussions are already happening behind the scenes at Paramount about trying to resurrect the flagging franchise after three decades of disappointment, with John Cena and Margot Robbie being bandied about as potential candidates to bring some fresh blood to the Terminator series.”
To add to what has been said about this new installment; it has been rumored that John Cena will be playing the T-800, Margot Robbie will be playing Sarah Connor, and James Cameron will be focusing on the actual war between man and machine. All this speculation can be taken in with a huge grain of salt.
In my honest opinion, I can see this having some potential. Even though I am a bit skeptical about this whole thing, especially with what happened in Terminator 3. That movie ruined it for me, as far as having any hope for the franchise.
Well… I do take that back. I quite enjoyed Terminator Salvation. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I thought it was well thought out, and closed a much-needed time loop in the franchise.
What I have noticed is that with each franchise, they try to either keep Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, or some other iconic actors to help feed the fanbase. Which can be good or bad, depending on how it’s executed.
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day; they had Linda Hamilton come back as Sarah Connor, and Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, but he’s protecting John Conner from the new Terminator aka the T-1000.
The reason this sequel did so well, was because they had the original cast come back, but with a twist. Instead of The Terminator being evil in this installment, he is good. Sarah Connor is in final girl survival mode. The new enemy is a Terminator who is a liquid metal, who is nigh-indestructible.
In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; the only actor they brought back was Schwarzenegger, who is again made to protect John Conner and his future wife.
Here’s why this sequel didn’t work;
They did a recast of John Conner. Created a tasteless origin story for Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, and his pop culture references outdated. Changing the enemy to be a flexible female robot was a nice twist. No pun intended. As I mentioned above; I thought Terminator Salvation was a perfect closed time loop for the franchise.
In Terminator Genisys (2015); there’s a lot that is wrong with this movie, but I’ll just list three. Firstly! The movie was greenlit to be made, secondly the movie’s subtitle. Genisys? I’m sure it was intended to be an acronym, or just something new to trademark, but it’s more confusing than memorable. I personally thought that it was either misspelled, or another example of the Mandela Effect existing in this universe along with The Berenstain Bears… or is it Berenstein Bears? Lastly, they recast everybody except Schwarzenegger.
The only cool thing that came from this was making The Terminator have living tissue that aged. And that’s just stretching it. Could that be a skin pun? I don’t know… maybe.
In Terminator: Dark Fate; Schwarzenegger is back, pun intended, and so is Hamilton. Both reprising their roles. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I can’t judge if bringing both actors to reprise their roles was good or bad.
Speaking of which, would bringing Robert Patrick back as the T-1000 be a good idea or a bad idea?
I wanna say it would be a good idea. I just don’t think it would be a good idea to change him to be the good guy. I would like to see his origin story though. Maybe his likeness came from the guy who launched Skynet in the first place.
As for John Cena and Margot Robbie; I do kind of hope that Cena is a new version of the Terminator, and Robbie isn’t Sarah Conner, but instead just a heroine who saves the world from a robot apocalypse aka a Robocalypes.
