Director James Cameron recently announced he is penning a script for Terminator 7 and here’s everything we know about the long-awaited legacy sequel. The franchise was launched back in 1984 with the release of Cameron’s blockbuster sleeper hit, The Terminator, which saw a deadly cyborg assassin travel from the future to eliminate Sarah Connor before she could give birth to humanity’s savior. Naturally, the box office appeal of the ’80s classic gave way to an even more successful sequel in the ’90s, and a cinematic juggernaut was born.

Despite the success of the first two movies, the Terminator franchise would then embark on one high-profile stumble after another as each successive sequel, spinoff, or reboot failed to move the needle. The Terminator franchise was reinvented on a handful of occasions, and the failure that was 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate was seemingly the last straw. The series has sat dormant even as other franchises are dragged out again for more and more sequels, and star Arnold Schwarzenegger even announced his permanent departure from the series. However, the film’s original creator, James Cameron, has come forward with promising news about Terminator 7.