Justin Lin has become the talk of the town in Hollywood, and boy is he talking! Today he’s specifically talking about his appreciation for the Terminator franchise and touches a little on his ideas for returning Sarah Connor to the film franchise.
Source: Geek Tyrant
…it’s gone through a change in ownership and I have a very clear idea because I’m a huge… There’s huge part of my life when I was a kid, I love that franchise and I have a very clear idea of what… If they’re going to do another one what that would be. And also, I think the other element that’s necessary is to really find the right group of people to execute that.
So again, I have my criteria set and if it’s not right, I shouldn’t make it. I think a lot of the stuff has been very good, we’ll see how everything fleshes out on that end too.
Yeah. Megan [Ellison]‘s been great and I sit down and talk to Arnold and stuff and we’ll have to see. I mean it’s very early on. There’s no script or anything like that. But it’s actually really good to be able to kind of articulate, and someone like Arnold obviously such… He’s so integral to do the franchise, to be able to have that kind of this close with him also…. I think that you know if the right version, if you go back to the thematic drives of the first one especially, I think that’s a way to be able to reengage with that franchise.I mean, Sarah Connor is such a big part of the franchise, you know. Yeah, I mean I’ve always been surprised how in part 3 she was just like… It was like one line and she was gone…. like leukemia and… But I think the great thing about this franchise is you have… You can actually have different canons because you have the element of time travel. So, there’s a way of kind of respecting all the works but also able to create a new time line
It’s like he understands my pain! How else could he have known how I cringed at the fact that Sarah Connor was nothing more than a memory in T3! I hated the idea that she was axed out of the movie as a character altogether and instead we watched as she was used as nothing more than a tool to access a weapons cache. I think that this guy has been thinking what we’ve all been thinking about this franchise and I for one am glad that a talented director with this mindset is aiming to set things right.
