Skydance Promises Eventual Return of The Terminator Franchise
John Squires
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This year’s needlessly confusing action film Terminator: Genisys was poorly received by critics and was considered a flop at the domestic box office, two things that led many to speculate that the franchise was being put on indefinite hold. But that’s not exactly the plan. Read on.
Per The Wrap, Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer Dana Goldberg spoke about the future of the series this week, promising that we haven’t seen the last of the time-traveling cyborgs. She says the franchise isn’t on hold, but rather the company is re-adjusting and modifying original plans.
“At Skydance, when we talk movies, we talk universes, even more than franchises,” Goldberg said Tuesday at TheWrap’s 6th Annual Media Leadership Conference TheGrill. “So the idea of a Terminator TV show fits into that universe. All the steps have to be taken in unison.”
Goldberg noted that while domestic box office numbers were underwhelming, Terminator: Genisys was a hit overseas – which could be the franchise’s saving grace.
“We’re ultimately happy with overall worldwide numbers. Do I wish we would have done better domestically? Absolutely,” she said. “Happily, we live in the world where the domestic number had a level of importance 10 or 15 years ago — I’m not saying it’s not important, it is — but we have to play to a worldwide market. In terms of Terminator, the worldwide market paid attention, but we’re not taking the domestic number lightly.”
Going forward, Skydance plans to use “data and research to do a worldwide study and really talk to audiences about what they loved, and what maybe didn’t work for them, so that the next we take with the franchise is the right one.”
“We are not going to begin production at the beginning of next year, because again, it would be silly to not have to worry about what audiences have to say,” Goldberg pointed out.
He’ll be back. Because of course he will.
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