Terminator: Dark Fate Director Regrets Making Movie, Calls Its Failure "A Eureka Moment"
Tim Miller regrets his attempts to relaunch the Terminator franchise.
Speaking on Collider's Directors on Director panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Miller, 57, said he regretted taking on 2018's Terminator: Dark Fate, which reunited series stalwarts Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
"Terminator's an interesting movie to explore, but maybe we've explored enough," Miller said. "I went in with the rock-hard nerd belief that if I made a good movie that I wanted to see, it would do well. And I was wrong.
"It was one of those f****** Eureka moments in a bad way because the movie tanked."
Though Dark Fate was generally well-received by critics (70 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes), it underperformed at the box-office: it made US$261 million (S$363 mil) worldwide on a reported US$185 million budget.
Despite his disappointing experience, Miller is still keen to have another go at the franchise, but this time an installment that doesn't cost as much as Dark Fate.
The Deadpool filmmaker explained: "I think if you make a lower cost Terminator movie, a good director and movie star could make it great. It could be made with sock puppets and it could be awesome."
It is also well-documented that Miller clashed with Terminator creator and producer James Cameron during the production.
In a 2019 interview with Cinemablend, Cameron said: "I would say many. And the blood is still being scrubbed off the walls from those creative battles. This is a film that was forged in fire. So yeah, but that's the creative process, right?" Because of those fights, Miller said he would never collaborate with Cameron again.
Just days before the Comic-Con panel, Miller shared that his next movie, The Goon — his first feature since Dark Fate — will head to Netflix. It's a supernatural tale featuring ghouls and zombie, based on a comic book series by Eric Powell. Miller is also the co-creator of Netflix's Emmy-winning animated anthology series Love, Death + Robots, for which he wrote and directed a handful of episodes (including Season 2's 'Swarm').
Terminator: Dark Fate is now streaming on Disney+ while Love, Death + Robots is available on Netflix. — BANG SHOWBIZ
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