Schwarzenegger Confirms T5; Says Original Writers Went in 'Wrong Direction'
After the major disappointment of The Last Stand at this weekend's box office, it should come as no surprise that Arnold is up for another Terminator (a sure-fire moneymaker).
Speaking with The Sun in promoting his new film, the big guy himself confirmed not only is he involved with Terminator 5 - as there had only been whispers of this - but that originally, different writers were brought onto the project (last week Patrick Lussier and Laeta Kalogridis were announced to be scripting the film) which he apparently was not a fan of:
“They’re writing right now Terminator 5. There have been some writers on it for the last year-and-a-half and they could not pull it off."
“We have told them over and over that they are going in the wrong direction, now they’ve finally got rid of those writers and they’ve got new really quality writers.
“Now they’re going in the right direction. I think this year the script will be finished and we will be able to go into pre-production.”
While it's great to hear that Schwarzenegger is having some input in the development of the new film, I'm still wary of his definition of 'quality' writers. This is a guy who raved about Terminator 3's script, saying how great it was, and we all know how that turned out. Even if they somehow get a great director, you still need a good story to pull the film off. Let's just hope James Cameron is secretly involved in the development of this thing too (his co-writer on Avatar was Laeta Kalogridis).
Source: The Terminator Fans
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