According to The Hollywood Reporter, Terminator creator/director James Cameron has revealed that he plans to bring Linda Hamilton back for a sixth movie. “With James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, it’s a reunion more than 25 years in the making.” With Hamilton’s return, Cameron aims to make a statement on gender roles in action movies. “There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys,” Cameron said, “but there isn’t an example of that for women.”
The new film is slated to be directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller with the new film returning to its roots by having the involvement of Cameron for the first time since 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Story details are, of course guarded, but Cameron and Miller are treating the new movie as a direct sequel to Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the themes of the potential evils of technology will once again be the topic of discussion. The new movie is also being approached as a “passing of the baton to a new generation of characters”. “We’re starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story,” Cameron said. “We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present. There will be mostly new characters, but we’ll have Arnold and Linda’s characters to anchor it.”