{"id":1987300,"date":"2025-08-29T20:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1987300"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:19:39","slug":"ridley-scott-reveals-he-turned-down-20-million-to-direct-terminator-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ridley-scott-reveals-he-turned-down-20-million-to-direct-terminator-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Reveals He Turned Down $20 Million to Direct TERMINATOR 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven years after Ridley Scott directed Alien, James Cameron directed the very first sequel to his film with Aliens. According to a report in The Guardian (via Deadline<\/a>), almost twenty years later, Ridley Scott had the chance to return the favor and direct a follow-up to Cameron\u2019s Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. But the celebrated director said he turned down a twenty-million-dollar payday to take the helm of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, despite the money. Scott said he believed he\u2019d \u201cF*#% it up\u201d by attempting to make it \u201ctoo real.\u201d Here\u2019s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m proud about this. I turned down a $20M fee. See, I can\u2019t be bought, dude. Someone said: \u2018Ask what Arnie gets.\u2019 I thought: \u2018I\u2019ll try it out.\u2019 I said: \u2018I want what Arnie gets.\u2019 When they said yes, I thought: \u2018Fuck me.\u2019 But I couldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s not my thing. It\u2019s like doing a Bond movie. The essence of a Bond movie is fun and camp. Terminator [as a franchise]<\/a> is pure comic strip. I would try to make it real. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve never asked me to do a Bond movie, because I could fuck it up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s fascinating that Scott thinks that Terminator and T2 were campy, as they\u2019ve been hailed by many as fairly gritty sci-fi. Especially the original film<\/a>. Although we suppose T2 has campier and more humorous moments. But to give credit where credit is due, Scott knew he wasn\u2019t the right guy for the job. And he didn\u2019t make a film he wasn\u2019t passionate about just for the paycheck. Still, we can\u2019t help but wonder what a Ridley Scott third Terminator film would have looked like. The T3 released in 2003, was essentially a rehash of Cameron\u2019s second film. So we\u2019re pretty sure Scott\u2019s version would have been more interesting, if nothing else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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