Despite the general positive feedback from critics, "Terminator: Dark Fates" failed at the box office, earned only $ 255 million at a budget of $ 185 million. It did not help to revive the franchise to the return of Linda Hamilton nor Arnold Schwarzenegger, nor the fact that the screenwriter and the cozer The film was James Cameron. However, the director of the painting Tim Miller made it clear that he had serious differences during work on a new part of the Terminator between him and Cameron.
The situation Miller commented on this:
I am sure that you can write a book about why the film did not work. I myself am not yet sure that it was not so, continuing to reflect on it, but I am proud of this picture. Those aspects that did not like the audience most were out of my control. Yes, we were constantly arguing with Jim [Cameron] - both on individual replicas and what was supposed to become with the "Legion". As for me, the only way to defeat this enemy is to go to the past and strangle it in the bud. But Jim said: "What is dramatic in the defeat of people?" And I replied: "What is dramatic that people constantly win?" But even if I am destined to give way to these disputes, I have to continue to fight, because it is the debt of every director. In the end, I still had to be included in the film what Jim insisted on.
On the question of whether he wants to continue to cooperate with Cameron, Miller responded negatively, but at the same time added that their personal relationships remain friendly. According to Miller, he simply does not want to be again in a situation where he has no control over his film.