Quote from: TheBATMAN on May 28, 2024, 04:52:54 PMI'd love to know what he was really thinking when he first saw Genysis. He must have been dying inside...
James Cameron was very involved in the making of
Dark Fate. He assembled the writer's room, helped break the overall story arc of the trilogy, brought on Tim Miller, etc. It was more or less the same sort of working environment as making
Alita: Battle Angel, except that where Cameron and Robert Rogriguez worked together without issue, Cameron and Miller butt heads a lot during the production of
Dark Fate and didn't quite see eye to eye, and
both parties have been very vocal about that after the fact. I'd argue that anything Cameron ever said about
Dark Fate, good or bad, he genuinely believes. He never minced words about the nature of working on that movie or the messiness of his collaboration with Miller, so I can't imagine why he'd mince words about the end result, either.
With
Terminator: Genisys, on the other hand... it seems like anything nice that he had said about that one (
"I start to see things I recognize...") was more just a fluff piece favor born out of his friendship with David Ellison (head of Skydance).
Dark Fate was more or less a direct response to his actual disappointment with what
Genisys and the other sequels had done, allowing Cameron and his team to sort of "take back" and reorient the franchise as they best saw fit at the time, while still leaving it under Ellison's roof.