Dynamite acquires a license to publish Terminator comics
JoBlo gives news about Dynamite Entertainment picking up a license for publishing comics based on filmmaker James Cameron's famous cybernetics and time travel franchise of the past 4 decades, which has seen other comic adaptations in the past 3 decades, mostly from Dark Horse:
Incidentally, what Cameron expressed regret about was fetishizing firearms, and it reads as follows:
The Terminator franchise has never really succeeded past the first 2 movies, and while it may have had moments in comicdom, I think it's another of many onetime phenomenons in pop culture that's long past its prime, and wore out its welcome, as Dark Fate should've made clear a few years ago.
Earlier today, we shared a quote from The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day writer/director James Cameron where he expressed regret about some of the things he brought to the screen in those movies. Now, we have some positive news to share regarding the Terminator franchise: SuperHeroHype reports that the Terminator comic book license has been acquired by Dynamite Entertainment. [...]But what kind of vision will they bring to any new tales they tell? If they go the woke route, as the Dark Fate film sequel did 5 years ago, they won't provide anybody with an entertaining product at all.
Dynamite Entertainment has secured the Terminator comic book license through a partnership with STUDIOCANAL S.A.S., which is the production company that oversees the Terminator universe. According to SuperHeroHype, “The deal grants Dynamite exclusive publishing rights to all comic properties relating to the world of Skynet. This includes the rights to reprint comics originally released by other publishers.”
Incidentally, what Cameron expressed regret about was fetishizing firearms, and it reads as follows:
Reflecting on the film, Cameron says he regrets fetishizing firearms in The Terminator, saying modern gun violence makes him feel ill.On this, would he also feel bad about putting any fetish upon knives, recalling there were at least a few times in the 2nd movie, Judgement Day, where Robert Patrick's T1000 morphed his hands into blades? How about any moment that was even remotely jarring in its violent acts? Maybe even that he depicted a man in police uniform as the bad guy? It may not be wise to sensationalize guns, but that's cheap when various other forms of violence, which could also include moments from 1986's Aliens, were being just as fetishized, and possibly worse. It sure sounds like Cameron's running the gauntlet of wokeness himself, and a shame the guy appears to be somebody who doesn't have what it takes to defend some of the better B-movies of the 80s and 90s, long before superhero movies destroyed the action star vehicle.
“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of ‘Terminator’ movies 30-plus years ago, in our current world,” he said. “What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach.”
The Terminator franchise has never really succeeded past the first 2 movies, and while it may have had moments in comicdom, I think it's another of many onetime phenomenons in pop culture that's long past its prime, and wore out its welcome, as Dark Fate should've made clear a few years ago.
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