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The Terminator<\/em> franchise with Arnold Schwarzenegger is inarguably one of Hollywood’s biggest successes and cult classics. James Cameron directed the first two movie installments before being replaced by director Jonathan Mostow for Terminator 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n In a recent interview with The Guardian<\/a><\/em>, Alien<\/em> director Ridley Scott revealed he was originally offered the opportunity to direct Terminator <\/em>3,<\/em> but said no and turned down the same pay day as Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m proud about this. I turned down a $20m fee. See, I can\u2019t be bought, dude,” explained Scott.<\/p>\n “Someone said: ‘Ask what Arnie gets.’ I thought: ‘I\u2019ll try it out.’ I said: ‘I want what Arnie gets.’ When they said yes, I thought: ‘F*ck me.’ 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,” said Scott.<\/p>\n “Terminator<\/em> 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 f*ck it up.”<\/p>\n All in all, Scott turned down Terminator 3<\/em> because of artistic integrity. The third installment of the franchise didn’t do well among critics, claiming it reused old storyline details and didn’t keep up with the first two installments. The movie still made back its $187 million budget, having made $433 million at the box office.<\/p>\n By the time Terminator 3<\/em> was released in 2003, Scott had directed the black comedy drama starring Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell, Matchstick Men<\/em>. In the two years before, he also directed Black Hawk Down<\/em> and the cult classic horror movie Hannibal<\/em>.<\/p>\n It appears Scott has no desire to try and direct a movie for the Terminator<\/em> franchise. Instead, he’s focused on Gladiator 3<\/em> that’s already in the works, and reveals that he’s open to another Alien prequel, “yeah, if I get an idea, for sure.”<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Aug 28, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Terminator franchise with Arnold Schwarzenegger is inarguably one of Hollywood’s biggest successes and cult classics. James Cameron directed the first two movie installments before being replaced by director Jonathan Mostow for Terminator 3. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Alien director Ridley Scott revealed he was originally offered the opportunity to direct Terminator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1990028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[317505,311556,29325,341854,359301,359302],"class_list":["post-1990027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-james-cameron","tag-ridley-scott","tag-terminator","tag-terminator-3","tag-the-terminator-franchise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ridley-Scott-Reveals-Why-He-Said-No-to-Terminator-3.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}