Scary Dad
While it’s being heavily promoted as the first “Terminator” film James Cameron has been involved in since 1991’s “Terminator 2 : Judgement Day”, the famed filmmaker is quick to point out that “Terminator : Dark Fate” is largely a Tim Miller (“Deadpool”) production.
Cameron tells Deadline he never personally visited the set of “Terminator : Dark Fate” (See trailer here) but did take a vested interest in the script.
“I focused on getting the script punched up,” Cameron said. “I didn’t feel like we went into the shoot with the script exactly where it should have been. There was a lot of momentum on the project, there was a start date, there was a lot of energy and a lot of “go fever,” but the script wasn’t where it needed to be so I quietly worked on it in the background and shipping out pages. Sometimes I was shipping out pages the day before they shot a scene. I’m not sure that was 100% always helpful but overall I kept the characters on track and sounding right and being where they needed to be.”
During that script stage, Cameron and the film’s producers revisited the other films in the “Terminator” saga – if only to see what not to do.
“One of the things that seemed obvious from looking at the films that came along later was that we would need to get everything back to the basics and that we would need to avoid the mistakes of making things overly complex and that we needed to avoid stories that jumps around in time and one that goes backward and forward in time,” he said. “Let’s keep it simple in the relative unity of time. With the story, let’s have the whole thing play out in 36 hours or 48 hours. In the first two movies everything plays out in less than two days in each one so there’s energy and momentum.”
