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TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Sees A Fate Unresolved In The Brand New Trailer

The last three Terminator films might have been a chore for fans and the producers and filmmakers involved in the saga.

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Awakens To A New Nightmare In The First Teaser Trailer

It’s been close to four years since Deadpool landed director Tim Miller on the radar for all comic-con and cult fandom. After choosing to move onto bigger-scale projects with the likes of James Cameron on board to produce a new Terminator movie for today’s audiences, it’s safe to say Miller has certainly found his calling.

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Moves Up To November 1, 2019

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Paramount Pictures has officially dated November 1 with the confirmed title, Terminator: Dark Fate, for Deadpool helmer Tim Miller. Natalia Reyes, Mackenzie Davis and Linda Hamilton lead the cast along with franchise mainstay Arnold Schwarzenegger, and actor Gabriel Luna rounding out the cast.

Cameron And Miller Discuss The TERMINATOR Reboot; Plots A Summer 2019 Release

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I’ll be the last person to invest in any upheaval between filmmakers as much as those keen on what sci-fi auteur James Cameron has to say this week pertaining to Wonder Woman – except that I absolutely had fun seeing it this summer and I’m looking forward to the sequel. For this, we turn to more pertinent news regarding the current progress he’s now making with director Tim Miller on the future of the forthcoming Terminator trilogy finale.

Cameron is currently at the helm for a slate of Avatar sequels through 2025 but is also assisting Miller for the ambitious new Terminator trilogy starring actor Arnold Schwarzenegger whose title portrayal of the time-traveling cyborg killing machine from the future made him a household name between 1984 and 1991 with The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. He’ll be joined once again by actress Linda Hamilton who will reprise her role as Sarah Connor as seen in battle ready succession in the 1991 sequel with a story that will pass the torch unto a new heroine, upon news reported last Wednesday.

Upon revealing a July 26, 2019 release date, Cameron and Miller took to The Hollywood Reporter to share their insight on the reboot, why they chose this project over others, a few of its developing properties, and much, much more:

CAMERON: “There’s a pride of authorship in anything that you do, and when David and I started talking about this, it made sense for me to see if there was a way to bring it into this century and to relevance. I look at what’s happening now with the emergence of artificial general intelligence equal to or greater than humans’, and you’ve got Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and others saying that this could be really bad for the survival of the human race. What was science fiction in the ’80s is now imminent. It’s coming over the horizon at us. And there’s been a resurgence of fear and concern about nuclear weapons and so on. So all of these apocalyptic elements are out there. The first two Terminator films that I did dealt with the angst around that and how we reconcile it for ourselves in a fantasy context. So I got excited about the idea of finding a story that made sense for now.”

On the approach:

CAMERON: “This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we’re pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse. This was really driven more by [Tim] than anybody, surprisingly, because I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it. The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century.”

MILLER: “The [first] films are more relevant today than they were when he made them. A lot of it seems like prognostication because it’s coming to be — the world we live in right now.”

On casting Hamilton:

CAMERON “…Linda and I have a great relationship. We’ve stayed friends through the thick and thin of it all. And she is the mother of my eldest daughter. [They were married from 1997 to 1999.] So I called her up, and I said: “Look, we could rest on our laurels. It’s ours to lose, in a sense. We created this thing several decades ago. But, here’s what can be really cool. You can come back and show everybody how it’s done.” Because in my mind, it hasn’t been done a whole lot since the way she did it back in ’91.”

MILLER: “As strong a character as she was, as meaningful as she was to gender and to action stars everywhere, I think it’s going to make a huge fucking statement to have her be the really seasoned warrior that she’s become.”

The new reboot hails from Skydance and Paramount, the latter who will distribute with Fox representing the film internationally. Cameron, who is producing, has a writers’ room with Miller in which also included are David Goyer (Blade trilogy, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy), Charles Eglee (TV series Dark Angel) and Josh Friedman (TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

Tim Miller’s TERMINATOR Reboot Brings Linda Hamilton Back As Sarah Connor

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Coming off of a ceremonial run at the box office with a 3D limited re-release of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, James Cameron’s continuing efforts toward resusitating the franchise have advanced through its latest milestone in being actress Linda Hamilton back to the screen. Deadpool helmer Tim Miller is directing the new movie aiming as a direct follow-up from Cameron’s 1991 action blockbuster headlined by Hamilton along with lead actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong, essesntially skipping the films between 2003 and 2015.

Hamilton’s return will mark her first foray back into the franchise since starring in Cameron’s 1984 hit sci-fi thriller with Schwarzenegger and actor Michael Biehn and its sequel in which Robert Patrick also stars. Cameron had a hand in writing both movies in which the actress stars as Sarah Connor, a waitress whose chance meeting with a soldier from the future and their first confrontation with a killer cybernetic assassin from the future assigned to killer, transforms her into a stoic, physically fit, battle ready heroine by the second film with her long lost son – the would-be leader of the human resistance against Skynet’s mechanized uprising – now in danger from an advanced model killing machine.

Schwarzenegger, also set to return, has appeared in all of the films in some capacity, including a motion-captured action finale with the actor’s face and physique opposite Christian Bale in McG’s Terminator Salvation (2009).

THR‘s exclusive report covered the event in which Cameron himself delves into the actress’s forthcoming reprisal:

Cameron made the announcement at a private event celebrating the storied franchise, saying, “As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then, it’s going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she’s become return.”

With Hamilton’s return, Cameron hopes to once again make a statement on gender roles in action movies.

“There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys,” he said, referring to aging male actors still anchoring movies, “but there isn’t an example of that for women.”

Similarly, Cameron also cites a “passing of the baton” to a generation of new characters in the reboot with the goal of a trilogy in mind, each starring in three standalone films that will connect:

“We’re starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story,” Cameron said. “We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present. There will be mostly new characters but we’ll have Arnold and Linda’s characters to anchor it.”