After a recent Terminator: Genisys preview screening for redditors in New York City, Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck around to answer several questions that fans had about many of his upcoming projects, as well as to clarify rumors on other titles. He answered questions about sequels to films such as Twins and the upcoming Conan film. But what piqued our interest was his talk about Shane Black’s Predator 4, which Arnold specifically addressed.
He stated:
I don’t know about Shane Black’s new Predator movie. He’s a great writer and he wrote a lot of the great scenes in the first Predator movie, especially a lot of my scenes, like “Stick around” when I put a knife through the guy’s chest and all these things. He’s a very talented guy and a great, great director, so if he would do it, it would become a great, great movie if I’m in it or not. But I have not been asked. The two movies that we are in dialogue with are Conan and the sequel to Twins.
He also spoke about his distaste of the sequels, pulling no punches:
Sometimes studios do a great job with creating sequels, and sometimes they really screw it up bad. It all has to do with greed. They sometimes want to do it really cheap, and make as much money as possible, so they don’t hire the right cast or the right director, because it might cost them an extra billion dollars. Then they want to rush it and have it come out next spring, even though it’s already fall, so how do you do all that? It’s stupid moves they make, and therefore they lose money doing that. So far no Predator, no matter which one they did after the first one, has really come out that I think was satisfactory to the audience.
You can watch the full interview below.