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‘Terminator’ Won’t Be Back Anytime Soon
Back in October Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer Dana Goldberg responded to reports that the Terminator franchise was “on hold.”
“I wouldn’t say on hold, so much as re-adjusting,” she explained in regards to the company’s plans to pursue a big-screen trilogy as well as a new TV series announced in late 2013.
The franchise was all but dead until it exploded for all kinds of records in China.
Terminator Genysis only made $90 million here in the States, but pulled in an impressive $350 million overseas.
Paramount Pictures had planned on releasing a follow-up on May 19, 2017. It has now been pulled off the schedule.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the report from October. And even with the booming success internationally, internally they need to figure out how to bring this franchise back in a way that doesn’t feel stale or behind on the times. Laeta Kalogridis is currently the writer in charge of that.
My suggestion, get historical and tie the Terminator assassins to the murders of great leaders like JFK and Abraham Lincoln.
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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