James Cameron might think everyone's over Ridley Scott's Alien, but he believes his own Terminator franchise is still relevant these days.
Despite the lukewarm response to Terminator Genisys, and basically every Terminator outing since Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cameron told The Daily Beast that the only problem is that the series is "trying to find its voice again".
"Maybe the things that made it good back then are kind of a yawn now. It's easy to remember fondly the things that kick off a franchise. It's hard to keep a franchise vigorous, and relevant," he explained.
"But look, I think it's possible to tell a great Terminator story now, and it's relevant. We live in a digital age, and Terminator ultimately, if you can slow it down, is about our relationship with our own technology, and how our technology can reflect back to us."
What's more, Cameron reckons that the machines have already won, even without the help of Skynet.
"If Terminator was about the war between the humans and the machines, look around any restaurant or airport lounge and tell me the machines haven't won when every human you see is enslaved to their device," he said.
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"So could you make a relevant Terminator film now? Absolutely."
Before there's any chance of seeing Cameron tackle another Terminator outing though, he's pretty busy with Avatar 2, which he revealed is FINALLY going into motion capture later this year.
Not only that, he's already finished writing Avatar 3, 4 and 5, as well as finding the time to call the Titanic ending theory, that Jack could have survived, "full of shit".
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