In a recent interview after a screening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, director James Cameron spoke about Terminator: Genesis and how the second in the franchise was still relevant technologically.

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Interestingly enough, the directed is still haunted by the question of not overseeing the rest of the films in the franchise leaving fans not as satisfied with the way things unraveled after the first two films, which Cameron directed.

The director also suggested that while he was clued into all that was going on with Terminator: Genesis he wasn't particularly concerned about how it will turn out.

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"I pay attention to [the upcoming Terminator film] but I'm not terribly concerned about it one-way or the other. I've let it go," he said. "There was a point in time where I debated going after the rights. Carolco Pictures was failing and in bankruptcy and the rights were in play. I talked briefly to 20th Century Fox about it. At a certain point, I think I was finishing Titanic at the time and I just felt as a filmmaker maybe I've gone beyond it. I really wasn't that interested."

He went on to talk about why he sold the rights to the franchise and how he felt he had given the series all he could and told the story he wanted to tell.

"I felt like I'd told the story I wanted to tell. I suppose I could have pursued it more aggressively and gone to the mat for it but I felt like I was laboring in someone else's house to an extent because I had sold the rights very early on," he said. "Basically I went from being a truck driver to being a filmmaker and part of my dues was that I sold the rights to The Terminator in order to keep myself attached as a director. And the outcome was fine. The rest of my career really hinged on that. But I no longer had control of it. I thought to myself why don't I just create my own new thing that I'll have control over the IP."

Cameron added that because he let it go he had to now "live with the consequences of that" which meant he couldn't get too "emotionally involved."

The new film is being directed by Alan Taylor and Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to reprise his role as the iconic mean machine. Jai Courtney will be playing Kyle Reese, Jason Clarke will be portraying the part of John Connor, and Emilia Clarke will play Sarah Connor. Sandrine Holt (House of Cards) will be playing Detective Cheung, who will arrest Kyle and Sarah when they arrive in 2017. 

Terminator 5 is scheduled to release in July 2015.

Watch a trailer for The Terminator here:

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