10 Upcoming Movie Reboots That Are Doomed To Fail

9. The Series Still Thinks It's 1991 - Terminator Genisys

Alien isn't the only franchise that's still moving along purely based off the success of a James Cameron-directed movie from over two decades ago. The Terminator was a cracking chase sci-fi whose self-named tech noir style served as a gritty alternative to the more garish eighties designs of the time, while its sequel upped the ante, offering up more daring action scenes and complex emotion. And that's where Terminator should have ended. However, T2 was a massive hit, far and away the biggest movie of 1991 (especially impressive by today's standards as it was an R) and thus the fact the story was over was thrown into the smelting champer and repeated attempts to restart the series began. Studio execs just couldn't accept that Judgement Day had just struck at the perfect time (the original had reached the point of modern classic, Arnie was at his zenith and toys for adult movies were yet to be outlawed), instead convinced the $500 million haul was down to something innate with the very idea of Terminator. And, despite Rise Of The Machines and Salvation barely breaking even, we're about to get another movie trying to recapture the second movie's uncapturable essence. It's not just the fact the franchise is chasing its own tail that's shot Genisys in the foot though, it's the idea at its heart. The film looks set to restart the timeline, setting up a blank slate for new adventures, but is doing so by relying heavily on the iconography of the original, something general audiences really don't have much affinity for.