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Netflix tried getting into the Terminator franchise with its 2024 anime series Terminator Zero, but that show couldn’t snag a big enough audience and has been canceled. But a new trailer has just revealed that Netflix does not need to get further ensnared with Terminator, because it’s already sitting on a promising new franchise that could rival it.
Netflix’s War Machine Is Terminator For the Modern Era
War Machine is the new film from Patrick Hughes, director of The Expendables 3 and The Hitman’s Bodyguard film series with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. The film stars Amazon’s Reacher leading man Alan Ritchson, and an ensemble that includes Dennis Quaid, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Keiynan Lonsdale, and others as recruits of a U.S. Army Rangers special unit, being put through a strenuous boot camp. However, training turns into an active mission when a giant killer robot (possibly alien) crashes near the squad’s location and begins wiping them out. Survival becomes the immediate concern, but because these noble warriors are Army Rangers, there’s a secondary mission that
The original Terminator movie by James Cameron is blessedly straightforward in its appeal: two protagonists trying to stay one step ahead of an unstoppable, killer robot. War Machine is taking that very same approach, and hopefully it will be just as thrilling. The Terminator also spawned an entire franchise universe – one that admittedly lost its original appeal after the second film. The issue was that Cameron’s original ‘race against the Doomsday Clock’ premise got replaced with convoluted time travel lore that seemed to get stuck in confusing loops of cause and effect.
