Terminator meeting
“ ‘Terminator’ is something I’ve been having a lot of fun with. Just even this week, I had a great meeting with Arnold and James Cameron, just sitting down unofficially. And James is so gracious because he’s not part of the project, he’s not going to be producing, but it was great of him just as a filmmaker to take time out to just talk.”
“I don’t know where it’s going to lead, but I never thought at this level I’m going to be able to meet filmmakers and be in situations where they’re that gracious and insightful and so inclusive. And that’s a franchise that I’m working on right now, but again, if I’m going to be kind of the gatekeeper to it, I want to make sure that I can hopefully build it up the right way – and so far that’s been the most fun. Just to be able to take James Cameron’s brain and for him to be so open even though he has no stakes in it, just as a human being, that’s something that I will always remember as a part of my journey as a filmmaker.”
Justin Lin is impressing me early with his vision for this sequel. In the last few weeks we've heard from the director that he'd like to bring back Sarah Connor. Basically correcting a fatal error in the series. He brought up a very good point when he told moviefone a month ago,"I mean, I’ve always been surprised how, in part 3, she was just like... It was like one line and she was gone." Seriously, how do you swerve so far from the bread and butter of the franchise? For me the first two films were much better then the last two because of Sarah Connor. The transformation of Linda Hamilton's character from a meek contemporary female in distress into a badass G.I. Jane gal with deep mental scars was delicious to watch. She really need a more fitting conclusion to her character and hopefully Lin can provide that.
If Arnold is comebacking to the franchise they will have to break out the de-aging technology. Let me put this out there. Maybe they could have Arnold play a human that Skynet modeled their terminator after. That could work.
Why he passed on Die Hard 5?
“For many of the projects, I feel very privileged, but I just know it wasn’t the right situation. And the first ‘Die Hard’ changed me as a kid when I watched it. But ‘Die Hard 5’ is just not something that I’m going to do, or I’m interested in.”
“Fast Five” arrives on DVD and BluRay on October 4th.
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