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6. Casting Actors Who Are Past It - Terminator 6
The Lesson: A View to a Kill
The rights to Terminator revert back to James Cameron in 2019, which might be the best thing to happen to the franchise since the early '90s. Or at least it would be if he hadn't confirmed plans to recast Arnold Schwarzenegger in the next instalment.
As iconic as Arnie was as the T-800 in the original films, he isn't just long in the tooth these days, he's got fangs like Baraka from Mortal Kombat.
How can somebody play a believable killing machine post 70? Even if Schwarzenegger is a human template for the Terminators in T6, as is rumoured, it still begs the question of why they're based on a man in his twilight years.
Casting an actor way past his prime for sentimental reasons rarely does a franchise any favours. Take A View to a Kill, one of the more divisive Bond films, for example.
Roger Moore had aged visibly in the two years since his previous 007 outing in Octopussy, and was actually older than his female co-star's mother.
Nobody bought him in the action sequences and even fewer could stomach him in the romantic scenes.
Moore himself has even admitted "I was only about four hundred years too old for the part", which is usually what a studio gets when they cast with their heart rather than their head.