Terminator: Dark Fate Footage Showed T-800 and Sarah Connor Back in Action

Paramount screened the first footage from Terminator: Dark Fate at CinemaCon on Thursday, revealing the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, as well as the first look at the movie’s new crop of heroes and villains in action. Dark Fate is a direct sequel to the first two James Cameron-directed Terminator films and ignores all subsequent sequels/reboots. (Cameron is a producer on Terminator: Dark Fate.)

During his introduction, director Tim Miller revealed that in Dark Fate, the Terminator’s new trick is that he can split in two so that he can be twice as deadly. The footage showed the film’s new bad guy T-1000 played by Gabriel Luna as well as the new good Terminator, played by Mackenzie Davis.

The footage starts in Mexico City where Davis’ Terminator materializes via time-travel on a highway at night, causing several cars to crash. Her naked body plummets off a bridge, landing in front of a young couple who proceed to help her. But as they carry this naked woman towards the street, the police pull up and immediately suspect the boyfriend and girlfriend of having done something malicious to her.

The footage then turned into an extended sizzle reel of action and atmospheric shots, set to a flamenco guitar version of the Terminator theme. We see glimpses of the war in the future with Davis looking more like a human resistance fighter than a Terminator. And, of course, we see Arnold’s T-800 and Sarah standing together firing off rounds at bad guys.

The big crowd-pleaser moment of the footage though was when at the very end it cuts back to the battle on the highway bridge. Sarah Connor drops an explosive off the bridge then turns to Davis and Reyes’ characters and says, “I’ll be back.”

In a press line chat before the Paramount presentation, Linda Hamilton told IGN that Sarah Connor has “mixed” feelings on seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 again after three decades. “Let’s just say that it is very mixed. It’s very confusing to her,” Hamilton said. “That’s all I’m gonna say. It’s not straight forward at all.”

Hamilton spoke about Terminator: Dark Fate’s contemporary setting, which is decades after when Judgment Day was initially to have happened. “At the end of the last one [T2: Judgment Day], we have supposedly changed that future date, and it comes and goes, but in the truth of things there will always be some cataclysmic event that’s going to come and wipe out mankind. There are other Judgment Days to face.”

She also remarked on the current state of our real world, one defined by a digital ubiquity and supremacy worthy of Skynet. “I don’t think we would have thought thirty years ago how truthful and authentic that would have felt thirty years later, but we are approaching doomsday in so many ways,” Hamilton said. “I think the film is as current now as it was then, or even more so.”

For more on the film, check out our interview with director Tim Miller.

Terminator: Dark Fate opens in November.

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