More Crappy Terminator Knockoffs Coming

Wednesday, May 09, 2007  -  reddit

The Terminator was awesome. Terminator 2: Judgement Day was epic. Terminator 3 was absolute junk. Ready for more of the latter? I bet you are, you sick bastard.

James Cameron in some unfathomable intervention by Satan himself lost the rights to Terminator when he divorced Linda Hamilton. She was very open about getting the rights just so she could sell them off, and that's exactly what she did, and this is why no Terminator flick will ever be written or helmed by Cameron again.

We won't even have Schwarzenegger; his body looks nothing like it used to under that suit and tie he wears in the California Governors mansion these days.

That of course hasn't stopped other people's attempts to live off the films reputation. T3 was a disaster, and based on what Variety is reporting, you can expect as many more as the new rights holders can possibly produce. They intend to milk it to death, quality be damned.

Expect more Terminator, but don't expect anything worth seeing.

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Topics: Film, Television, The Terminator, James Cameron, Shrek 3, Lost