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.
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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
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.
Tim Miller's TERMINATOR Reboot Finds Its Killing Machine, Others Added To Cast
The week has been ripe with announcements for the upcoming production of Terminator from Paramount pictures and Skydance. Monday saw the addition of The Titan co-star, actor Diego Boneta in an undisclosed role following the long-known attachment of returning franchise stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
Trade news sites began bustling Friday afternoon with Deadline bookending the week with two new names added to the cast following an extensive search for talent. The production found its footing in Colombia with Latin America series Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas actress Natalia Reyes, who will play a working class woman who gets swept into the human resistance against the machines. The two are further joined by Blade Runner: 2049 actress McKenzie Davis who was added last month.
Toplining the mechanic end of the cast is TV’s Ghost Rider fan favorite from ABC series Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., actor Gabriel Luna who will star as Deadpool director Tim Miller’s incarnation of the titular Skynet-manufactured, cybernetic A.I. organism covered in living tissue.
Miller is shepherding the reboot with David Goyer penning the script, architecturing the reboot as a continuation from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Franchise auteur James Cameron is serving as producer ahead of receiving most of the franchise rights back by next year after selling them for $1 to producer Gale Anne Hurd to secure himself in the director’s chair for the inaugural 1984 hit.
The Hollywood Reporter’s own coverage on Friday concluded the cast will begin training this month for a May production start ahead of a November 22, 2019 release.
Tim Miller’s TERMINATOR Reboot Circles McKenzie Davis
Deadpool helmer Tim Miller and Terminator franchise mainstay James Cameron are lining up a 2018 production schedule for the new Terminator movie opening next year. For this, Justin Kroll at Variety has it on good terms that The Martian and Blade Runner 2049 actress McKenzie Davis is in discussions to partake on the female incarnation of the time-traveling cybernetic killer from the future.Cameron’s involvement has imbued the film’s standing as a direct sequel from the 1992 blockbuster, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, whose original franchise stars, Linda Hamilton and title actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are also returning to reprise their roles. Casting for human roles next to Hamilton’s iconic Sarah Connor currently remain pending as production dates are set for June through middle of October with a July 26, 2019 release in tow.Cameron is producing with David Ellison whose Skydance is also financing the film. Billy Ray is overseeing a script polish from an original story by Miller, Cameron and Ellison.
143: Tim Miller’s X-Men Universe Entry Lands A Screenwriter
Fox is making good on its earlier hype from January regarding a standalone Kitty Pride movie, it seems. As Deadline reported on Monday, the studio is tapping Brian Michael Bendis to script an X-Men cinematic universe entry vaguely-titled 143 for Deadpool helmer Tim Miller to direct.
The noted X-Men superheroine launched under Marvel Comics in 1980 with a number of skills surrounding her ability to “phase” herself and become intangible, allowing her and whatever she touches to pass through any object. Her history has seen her grow her affiliations with numerous teams including and especially with Guardians Of The Galaxy protagonist Star Lord at one point.
Fox’s X-Men franchise has seen a trio of actresses perform the role with Ellen Page donning the character for at least two films: The Last Stand and Days Of Future Past. As Deadline notes, the studio is playing it close to the chest but suggests the title hints at the 143rd issue in March of 1981 in which Kitty goes toe-to-toe with an N’Garai, a demonic entity from a race created by an intergalatic Elder God once intent on dominating Earth.
Bendis is strongly versed in comic books having contributed to many an adaptation over the years, including the big screen introduction of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse for its December 14, 2018 release. Miller is joined by James Cameron on pre-production for a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day set to release on July 26, 2019.
Cameron And Miller Discuss The TERMINATOR Reboot; Plots A Summer 2019 Release
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).
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Tim Miller’s TERMINATOR Reboot Brings Linda Hamilton Back As Sarah Connor
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.”
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).
Fox’s NEUROMANCER Taps Tim Miller To Direct The Cyberpunk Novel Adaptation
British director Chris Cunningham was once up to direct the film between 2000 and 2004 before switching hands in the years that followed. Fox is seeking a new writer while Miller packs on Neuromancer along with other projects in his workload, including the ambitious trilogy starter adaptation of Daniel Suarez’s 2014 novel, Influx, and a resurrection of Paramount/Skydance’s Terminator franchise with filmmaker/creator James Cameron which is expected to take off in Spring of 2018. (Deadline)
Dying With Laughter Over DEADPOOL (Or, How To Wake Up Before You Go Go)
Be prepared for an unusual opening when you watch this – it was very unexpected but in the spirit of the comic book series that is largely entertaining. And the pop culture references fly in the face of cinematic brilliance but not at the expense of digging current actors and musical references. Even Ryan Reynolds takes hits at himself and the dismal Green Lantern. In-jokes abound. There’s a reason it’s rated R: it’s raunchy, racy, revolting, revolutionary, and most of all, rip-roaring fun for adults with a sordid and twisted sense of humor. My kind of movie.
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