Terminator 7 could revive the Terminator franchise by looking to a key element of Terminator: Genysis and Terminator: Dark Fate. The Terminator movies were once some of the hottest action and sci-fi movies around with the franchise’s first two installments, with 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day standing as the franchise’s peak. However, subsequent Terminator movies have failed to recapture the success of the original, with Terminator: Dark Fate unfortunately bombing in 2019.

Since then, the Terminator franchise’s creator James Cameron has begun working on Terminator 7, which will focus more on the A.I. of Skynet than the machines themselves. Oddly, despite Terminator: Genysis and Terminator: Dark Fate each underperforming, both would introduce a key idea that could be exactly what the Terminator franchise needs to reinvigorate itself. In short, Terminator 7 could truly look at the world through the eyes of the Terminators themselves, which has not really been done in any of the Terminator movies.