Paramount Pictures held their San Diego Comic Con Panel to kick off SDCC 2019 and as well as the surprise appearance by Tom Cruise to reveal the first official trailer for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ we also learned some more information for upcoming ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ such as confirming that it will indeed have a full R Rated Certificate when it releases
But the big surprise is that Edward Furlong, the original actor who played John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day will return to play the older version of the character in the new film.
Terminator: Dark Fate is a direct sequel to Judgement day and will be ignoring every film released since which not means the return of Linda Hamilton in the role of Sarah Connor but having Edward Furlong return is more than just a fandom pleasing choice but just hammers home just what it means to make this film the sequel the franchise probably deserved to have all along.
In fact we have learned a bit more about Dark Fate thanks to an interview with Entertainment Weekly where director Tim Miller explains what makes this new sequel stand out from all the previous failed films:
“The first two movies really deal with time as a loop, what’s happening is the same thing that happened before and everybody is fighting to ensure that happens again and James Cameron had this lucky break that he only broke that rule at the end of Terminator 2 when Sarah destroys Cyberdyne, it’s the first thing that happened that hadn’t happened before, and so it was going to change the future — but no one knew how. And I don’t think the movies that came after it really explored that in a clean way like I believe we are, with true consequences, and it makes perfect sense for Sarah to be the one to face those consequences since they were her choices to begin with.”
The more and more I read about this new film, the more faith I have in it as a sequel and it does sound as though Miller has gone back to basics instead of failed attempts to reuse the same formula of the story.
I am very excited to see more and after watching the special SDCC 2019 featurette video above, everything is looking “thumbs up” for Terminator Dark: Fate, due to land in Cinemas on November 1st 2019.
