Paramount Pictures has announced that the James Cameron-produced and Tim Miller-directed Terminator feature will hit screens on July 26, 2019. Skydance Media is a producer on the latest film in the long-running franchise.
While there have been many attempts to resuscitate Terminator since Cameron directed Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991, this is a huge try to get the sci-fi action series back on the rails after 2015’s Terminator: Genisys fizzled stateside with $89.8M off a production cost of $155M. Even though that film is the second-highest-grossing film in the franchise after Judgment Day with $440.6M, 26% of that worldwide tally comes from China (around $113M), and only a quarter of that comes back to the U.S. David Ellison’s Skydance Media bought the rights from his sister Megan Ellison, whose Annapurna snapped them up in an auction for $20M. Fox International has foreign on Terminator.
A writers room for the film is assembled with David Goyer, Charles Eglee, Josh Friedman and Justin Rhodes and producer David Ellison, as well as Cameron. Word is that the next three films will include Arnold Schwarzenegger with original star of the first two movies, Linda Hamilton. Allegedly the film’s will be direct sequels to the second film and will pretend that all those after it were “just a bad dream.”
