When the “Gladiator” director was requested for the staging of “Terminator 3”, he asked for the same sum that Arnold Schwarzenegger should get.
Ridley Scott was in discussion for a long time at the turn of the millennium to continue the “Terminator” series. Nevertheless, the director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner” finally rejected despite an XXL-Gage offered.
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Like the Briton nominated for the Oscar several times in an interview with the “Guardian” told, he had not directed the “Terminator 3: Rebellion of the machines” because he was afraid to “screw it up”.
Scott therefore believed that he might have destroyed the spirit of the series if everything had been staged too realistically. However, he was proud to have rejected.
Ridley Scott and his realistic style
“I rejected a fee of $ 20 million. So you can see, so I’m not available,” said the 87-year-old. “Someone said, ‘Ask what Arnie gets.’ I thought, ‘I’ll try it out.’ I said, ‘I want what Arnie receives.’ When they said ‘yes’, I thought: ‘Shit.’ But I couldn’t do it.
Scott continues: “It’s like a bond film. The essentials of a bond film is fun and kitsch. ‘Terminator’ is like a pure comic film. I would have tried to make it realistic. Therefore, you never asked me to make a bond film because I would simply mess it up.”
“U571” director Jonathan Mostow finally did the job offered by Ridley Scott. In addition to Arnie, Nick Stahl and Claire Danes played with. As a new terminator, Kristanna Loken was a woman on board as a cyborg from the future.
While critics praised the old-fashioned staging style, the unanimous opinion was that the high quality of the two James-Cameron action films could not be achieved.