James Cameron blames Terminator: Dark Fate flop on AGES of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton

James Cameron has blamed the failure of 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate on the ages of its leads Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.

Avator director Cameron, 68, who wrote and produced the film along with director Tim Miller, 58, said the decision to bring back Schwarzenegger, 75, and Hamilton, 66, as Sarah Connor , made the film become ‘your grandfather’s Terminator movie’.

Dark Fate, a direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, lost more than $120 million at the box office, ruling out any possibility of more sequels.

They will not return: James Cameron blamed the failure of Terminator: Dark Fate of 2019 on the ages of its protagonists Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Linda Hamilton (right)

Avatar director Cameron said Term:’I think the problem, and I’m going to use this one, is that I refused to do it without Arnold. Tim didn’t want Arnold, but I said, “Look, I don’t want that. Arnold and I have been friends for 40 years, and I could hear him, and he was like, ‘Jim, I can’t.’ terminator without me

For starters, he added that he wasn’t particularly interested in the film, continuing: “It just didn’t mean a lot to me to do it, but I said, ‘If you guys could see a clear path to bringing Arnold back and then, you know, I’d be happy to. take part”.

‘And then Tim wanted Linda. I think what happened is I think the movie could have survived having Linda in it, I think it could have survived having Arnold in it, but when you put Linda and Arnold in it and then, you know, she’s 60 and so many, he’s 70-something, suddenly it wasn’t your Terminator movie, it wasn’t even your dad’s Terminator movie, it was your grandfather’s Terminator movie. And we didn’t see that.”

Reason: Avator director Cameron, 68, who wrote and produced the film along with director Tim Miller, 58, said the choice to bring back Schwarzenegger, 75, and Hamilton, 66 as Sarah Connor, resulted in the movie becoming ‘your grandfather’s Terminator movie’ (pictured last week)

Starring: Cameron said the direct sequel to a 1991 film meant that contemporary film fans “were not even born” and “wouldn’t even have been born for another 10 years” when Judgment Day (Hamilton and Schwarzenegger in the film) was released photo of 2019)

Bomb: Dark Fate, a direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, lost more than $120 million at the box office.

Cameron said that the direct sequel to a 1991 film meant that contemporary film fans “were not even born” and “wouldn’t even have been born for 10 years” when Judgment Day was released.

Terminator: Dark Fate marked the return of franchise creator Cameron, who directed the 1984 classic The Terminator from a script he co-wrote with Gale Anne Hurd.

While Cameron returned to direct 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, he was not involved in the three films that followed: 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 2009’s Terminator Salvation, and 2015’s Terminator Genisys, none of which were able to replicate the commercial and critical success. from the first two movies.

Terminator: Dark Fate was better received by critics with a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but its $29 million debut was just above 2015’s Terminator Genisys, which would gross $89 million domestically and $440.6 millions around the world.

Iconic: While Cameron returned to direct 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, (pictured) he was absent from the three films that followed

Legendary: Edward Furlong is depicted as John Connor with Schwarzenegger as the T-800 in the 1991 film

The story follows a cyborg-human hybrid from the future named Grace (Mackenzie Davis) who attempts to protect a young woman named Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) from a deadly new Terminator known as REV9 (Gabriel Luna).

The story is a direct sequel to Terminator 1 and 2, ignoring the events of the other Terminator movies in the process.

MKM Partners media analyst Eric Handler claimed that Paramount “made a bad decision in green-lighting this movie with this particular budget.”

“This is an aging franchise with aging actors, and the reviews were mediocre,” Handler added.

“As great as a franchise has been, now it doesn’t have the same appeal,” he added.

Success story: Schwarzenegger became a global superstar with his role in the franchise