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The Terminator has been defeated by real life science, according to creator James Cameron
James Cameron admitted that our present historical moment has posed a challenge for him as he writes the next Terminator movie
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To state the obvious, we're living in some wild times. Recently, I showed one of my friends the original Arnold Schwarzenegger Running Man movie, and watched my buddy in real time lose his mind over how accurate the movie is to our present. There's been a long-running joke that The Simpsons predicts the future, but I think we're at a stage where media far beyond The Simpsons has envisioned where we are now.
One of those stories is, of course, James Cameron's Terminator franchise. And while Cameron hasn't shied away from making movies critical of our world across his career - I mean, there's a reason why he made the T-1000 from Judgment Day take the form of a cop - he admitted to CNN's Christiane Amanpour that he's feeling at a loss for how to write the next chapter in The Terminator world.
“I’m at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science fiction. I’m tasked with writing a new Terminator story. I’ve been unable to get started on that very far because I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science fiction age right now. The only way out is through, by using our intelligence, by using our curiosity, by using our command of technology - but also really understanding the stark probabilities that we face," Cameron said.
Cameron said this within an interview where he discussed adapting Charles Pellegrino's book, Ghosts of Hiroshima, about survivors of the atomic bombing of Japan during World War II, into a feature film. Of course, one of the most horrifying sequences in the Terminator franchise is the nightmare sequence in Judgment Day where Sarah Connor sees Los Angeles engulfed by a nuclear blast. Suffice to say, Cameron has spent significant time recently staring into the darkness of both our past and perhaps our future.
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