Alan Taylor, the rumored director of Terminator 5, cited Batman Begins as inspiration behind the upcoming film during an interview with Slash Film.

There has been a buzz about Taylor being in serious talks with producers of the reboot, but the director hasn't confirmed the news. He did tease fans though. 

"For publicity, I think I'm doing everybody a favor to leave it as a rumor," Taylor told Film School Rejects.

While speaking about his inspirations for the fifth installment of Terminator 5, the director said the Batman film made a lasting impression on him.

"We all love the first two and I actually went back and watched them again and my respect level only went up. I think there is another famous franchise that had a wonderful beginning and then turned a little bananas....Tim Burton's first Batman is just glorious and by the time it got around to nipples on costumes and all that stuff it sort of lost its way," he said.

"And for [Christopher] Nolan to come in an say 'I respect this material so much I'm going to take it up to (hand motion) here, that's a great inspiration.' I think any version, whoever is directing Terminator, would be very respectful and serve the first two and probably feel a bit more freedom by the end."

Taylor also suggested that the new film would be a "semi" reboot. Film School Rejects probed the filmmaker about the the nature of the film, asking him whether it would be closer to James Cameron's films (Terminator and Terminator 2:Judgment Day) or the "series overhaul" in Thor: The Dark World.

"Well, I would bracket anything I say from hereon because this is still a rumor. But, within the context of the rumor, I think that's a specific case of two wonderful films at the beginning and two films that came later which were less wonderful," he said. "I think you absolutely would feel free to define yourself up against the latter ones, but you want to serve the first two, trying to be on the level."

Thor: The Dark World releases on Nov. 8.

Terminator 5 is scheduled for release on July 1, 2015. 

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