Our February report that Annapolis director Justin Lin could be in talks with Universal for a fifth Terminator movie left the whole thing open for interpretation – or plain indifference. Now, Collider [via Omelete] brings us a bit more on the subject… and it still doesn’t tell us much.
At today’s press junket for his upcoming Fast Five, Lin skates nimbly around any hard answers on whether or not he’ll actually sign on to direct yet another unnecessary “fifth-quel.” But he has been talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger:
I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options. Terminator was one of my favorite films growing up. And I feel I have a take that I would love to see, and I’ve talked with Arnold and we’ve talked and we’ll see. Again, I would love to do it, but it has to be the right circumstances. It has to be the right people. And there’s other projects too. But I’m in a position now that I can choose more than I could a year ago, two years ago. So that is something that is potentially in my future, but when I get home I will sit down and look at my options and choose what I want to do.
Still not a lot to go on. If you thought McG‘s light, subtle touch with Terminator: Salvation would effectively close the coffin lid on this bionic franchise which – like its titular cyborg – should’ve died in a vat of molten steel decades ago, think again. The director of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift might lure Arnold back into the fray – maybe as Skynet’s CEO, who knows?
In related news, Fast Five has been classified 130 minutes long and will hit theaters at the end of the month.
Would you like to see Lin helm the next Terminator flick? Do we even need one?