Overview

• Scott says he was advised to seek the same fee as Arnold Schwarzenegger and that producers agreed to the request.
• He recalls turning it down regardless, stating “I can’t be bought” and that the project was not his “thing.”
• He likens the assignment to making a Bond film and describes the Terminator tone as “pure comic strip,” saying he would have tried to make it “real.”
• He confirms a third Gladiator film is “in process” following the box office success of Gladiator II.
• The remarks revisit a franchise path where James Cameron exited after T2, a rights bankruptcy delayed a sequel, and Jonathan Mostow directed 2003’s Rise of the Machines.