Following the Berlin Film Festival premiere of the 3D-converted “Terminator 2: Judgement Day,” James Cameron jumped onto Facebook to answer questions from fans. And the conversation ranged from the thoughts behind giving ‘Judgement Day’ the 3D treatment, to the possibility of returning to the franchise (via The Terminator Fans).
“I think the overall quality of the film, the quality of the presentation; we worked very hard on good 3D. We started with a 4K transfer, then we did a degraining process, so it actually looks better, even if you watch it in 2D it would look better than it did on the day,” the director said about this new version of ‘Judgement Day,’ which is slated to hit theaters later this year.
And as you might guess, the tech-savvy Cameron isn’t ruling out giving his other movies the 3D treatment.
READ MORE: Looking Back At James Cameron’s ‘The Terminator’ On Its 30th Anniversary
“Look, I think it would be great to do all my films; I’d love to see ‘The Abyss,’ I’d love to see ‘Aliens.’ It gets down to a matter of economics really, the ‘Titanic‘ release was very successful, we made $440 million dollars re-releasing ‘Titanic’ in 3D, so if we make some reasonable amount of money with the ‘T2’ re-release and we start to feel confident — we can start looking at some of the other films as well, if we think there’s a market there or if we think, you know, if this demonstrates that, it sort of becomes a vanity project then I probably wouldn’t do it,” he said.
Meanwhile, Cameron considered the possibility of directing another ‘Terminator’ movie, something that could be in the air now that a new movie is in development and the rights to the first picture are returning to him in 2019. But first will be an entry helmed by “Deadpool” director Tim Miller, and no matter what, Cameron is concerned with approaching the material from an original angle.
“I think the bigger issue is how do we make it fresh, how do we make it new and as inventive for the 21st century as the first two Terminator movies were 25 and 30 years ago,” he said.
Check out the full talk below.