8 Ways Upcoming Movies Can Fix Franchise Mistakes

4. Terminator 6 Will Fix The Timeline

The Mistake: The convoluted timeline.

How The Movie Will Fix It: The Terminator movie timeline is frequently chastised for being unnecessarily complex, and it’s not hard to see why.

It started off simply enough with 1984’s The Terminator, which was a basic chase movie with time-travel elements. But as the franchise progressed into the 21st century and it’s third, fourth and fifth movies, those elements were pushed to the forefront and began to swamp the series in confusing timelines galore.

It didn’t help that Terminator 3 was poor, Terminator Salvation was unnecessary and Terminator Genisys was borderline unwatchable, but quality aside, these movies have just bogged the franchise down and confused general audiences (John Connor is a robot now?), leaving the series almost dead in the water.

So it’s a relief to hear that the upcoming Terminator 6 (directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller) will be ignoring the last three sequels and will act as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Speaking to THR, producer and series creator James Cameron said that Terminator 6 is "a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we're pretending the other films were a bad dream."

That may sound blunt, but it's exactly what Terminator needs right now. Terminator 6 is shaping up to be a back-to-basics action-thriller that ditches the complex time-jumping and picks up where the best movie in the franchise left off. What more could we ask for?