Third Terminator Will Be a She, Says Arnold
November 16 -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is revealing a big twist about Terminator 3: This time around, the assassination machine from the future will be a female.
(And no, it won't be Terminator regular Linda Hamilton, who has reportedly passed on the project.)
While chatting with the New York Post about his new sci-fi drama, The 6th Day, which opens Friday, Ahnuld said that the wily new terminator will be very elusive, "She can disappear, she can mold into someone else, and she is sometimes just an energy," says the action hero.
So far, only Schwarzenegger and T2's Edward Furlong have committed to the third Terminator outing. Director James Cameron declined to direct a third installment and a new director has yet to be found. Those mentioned to take over the director's chair include John McTiernan (Die Hard), Ridley Scott (Gladiator), David Fincher (Fight Club), Roland Emmerich (The Patriot), and Christian Duguay (The Art of War).
With Cameron out of the way, it's Schwarzenegger's puppy now, and he recently ordered the script rewritten for, appropriately enough, the third time. "The two drafts I read were so big that it would have cost $300 million to make it," he told the Post. "I don't think we need to see a 747 crash-land into all those buildings in downtown L.A. I think we can do it on a football field somewhere so that it doesn't cost that much."
Shooting is scheduled to begin this spring, assuming there's no Screen Actors Guild strike.
As for his new movie, the cloning thriller The 6th Day, Schwarzenegger predicts that it will get creamed by Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which also opens Nov. 17. "I think that movie will be much bigger than ours. Kids love it and all that stuff."
The Austrian Oak is currently filming Collateral Damage and he plans to reteam with James Cameron for True Lies 2.
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