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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
This is one of the few reboot/revisits/continuations of classic science fiction films and franchises that we’re actually interested to see, Tim Miller‘s Terminator.
Being touted as the direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day (T2), Terminator sees the return (FINALLY) of one of the original badasses of ladies in the genre Linda Hamilton as Sarah Conor. Obviously this means her character didn’t die in Terminator 3: Judgement Day (while training her friends in Mexico as reported by John Connor). She looks absolutely amazing, by the way.
She’s joined in this first official image by Natalia Reyes, a Columbian actress who is playing character Dani Ramos (who we don’t know anything about yet).
And perhaps the addition we’re the most curious to see in action, Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire).
We do know that Gabriel Luna (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is on board as the new Terminator, and that Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the franchise as well.
Tim Miller (Deadpool, Thor: The Dark World) persuaded James Cameron to revisit the series, Cameron citing the current apocalyptic elements of cell phones, threat of nuclear war, and human reliance on machines creating this story for now.
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. MILLER Jim is a more positive guy [than I am] in the present and more cynical about the future. I know Hawking and Musk think we can put some roadblocks in there. I’m not so sure we can. I can’t imagine what a truly artificial intelligence will make of us. Jim’s brought some experts in to talk to us, and it’s really interesting to hear their perspective. Generally, they’re scared as shit, which makes me scared. 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.
Terminator 6 (which is just being called ‘Terminator’ at this point, a different title may be revealed eventually) is set to hit theaters November 22nd 2019.
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Sarah Connor — the real Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton — is back! In a new first-look image from Tim Miller’s Terminator reboot we get to see cinema’s most iconic doomsday prepper walking alongside her new franchise co-stars, Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes. When the Davis casting news was first reported, her character was described as “a soldier-assassin on a mission” and “a human character,” so that solider has either got a set of tattoos that resemble grafting marks for sowing skin over an exoskeleton or … maybe she’s a cyborg after all? Unclear. Reyes will play Dani Ramos, T6’s edition of Terminator bait who is being stalked through Mexico City by a cyborg assassin (Gabriel Luna). Plot details are still scarce, but we do know that the reboot will be a direct sequel to James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now please let Mackenzie Davis turn out to be the new Sarah’s new Terminator buddy cop!
Linda Hamilton and her glorious arms are back. On Tuesday, Paramount released a first look at the women starring in the upcoming Terminator sequel, featuring Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, and Natalia Reyes. Hamilton, who played Sarah Connor in the original franchise and became forever known for her chiseled arms in Terminator 2, is wielding a gun and wearing a souped-up bulletproof vest in the first look. Reyes is taking a mean step forward. Davis, however, is the central focus of the image, playing an assassin named Grace. She’s wearing a white tank top, all the better to show off her character’s curious, geometric white scars and her Hamilton-esque biceps. What a symbolic passing of the torch. She’s the face (and arms) of this franchise now.
Few true details are known about the plot, though it has been revealed that Davis’s character is on a mission to protect a teen girl named Dani Ramos (played by Reyes). Hamilton is reprising her role as Connor in the series. Arnold Schwarzenegger will reprise his role as ze Terminator. The cast is rounded out by Gabriel Luna and Diego Boneta.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Terminator architect James Cameron said this film 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.”
He said the decision was, surprisingly, driven more by director Tim Miller than by himself. “I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it,” Cameron admitted. “The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century.”
Miller was also the driving force behind Davis’s decision to join the film (besides, you know, the hallowed Hollywood property-ness of it all).
“I really wanted to work with him,” she said in an interview in April. “Through the audition process and talking to him I just got more excited.”
Though she didn’t reveal too much about Miller’s approach to the treasured material, she promised that the Deadpool director was going to bring “a lot of humor. He wants to ground it.”
The new Terminator, which does not yet have an official title, will be released November 22, 2019.
