How The Terminator Franchise Can Continue, According to Dark Fate Director
Terminator: Dark Fate director Tim Miller has spoken about the future of the Terminator franchise and how the long-running sci-fi property can continue after his film’s failure. First created in 1984 by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, the Terminator franchise has seen six feature films, a live-action television series, and a slew of interconnected comic books, novels, and additional media enter production over the years. While the franchise would come to receive both critical and commercial acclaim with the much beloved 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day, since then, continued attempts to reinvigorate the property have all largely been met with various degrees of critical apathy, audience skepticism, and box office failure.
In 2015, the franchise’s fifth installment Terminator Genisys was originally intended to serve as a fresh reboot of the property and the start of a new trilogy of films. That film, however, would fail to resonate with critics and, due to its lower than anticipated box office takings, plans for its intended sequels were eventually scrapped altogether. Instead, the studio greenlite Miller’s Dark Fate, a film that would go on to ignore all other sequels after the events depicted in Terminator 2. Not only would Miller lure Cameron back to work on the project as a producer, but he would also bring franchise veteran Linda Hamilton back to reprise her role as Sarah Connor. Unfortunately, however, Dark Fate would also follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and failed to perform at the box office, ultimately losing $122.6 million and becoming one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.
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Most recently, Miller appeared at San Diego
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