Terminator: Dark Fate Director Tim Miller, and Linda Hamilton earlier spoke about how the movie will progress on from Terminator 2: Judgment Day in plot and Sarah Connor’s character arc.
Tim told EW…
“I know it’s hard for people to say, ‘Okay, it’s Terminator 6,’ but it really isn’t, and I hope we get that message out,”
Tim Miller
According to EW: “Tim Miller knows moviegoers are rightfully skeptical of a sixth entry in the long-running franchise, but the Deadpool filmmaker is urging fans to tap their feelings about the 1984 original and 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. “
“It’s really a sequel to those first two stories — and it’s not your usual sequel. I think people are going to be surprised in the way that the story continues and it’s a little more back to basics of what Jim [Cameron] did; it’s not trying to compete with the giant Marvel movies…well, it is a little bit. [Laughs] Nobody is going to be disappointed by the action but it really is a return to character.”
Tim Miller
Linda Hamilton speaks of the 3 sequels/reboots that she was not involved with and how they were lacking in character/character development, which is absolutely true…
“[Character] is something that I strongly felt was missing with the three since I did Judgment Day, you had so much action and taking everything and making it that much bigger, but there were no characters that you really cared about. And that obviously has to be the real thread that links my three movies together; you’ve got to have characters you care about or it’s all just a wash.”
Linda Hamilton
Tim chimed in…
“Or it’s just explosions.”
Tim Miller
What do you think about the marketing of Terminator: Dark Fate? We believe the marketing, so far, has left a lot to be desired but hopefully SDCC 2019 will give us something to get excited about… if this movie can’t do that (regardless of if you are positive about this movie or not) many will not part with their money.
Source: EW
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Miller is pulling on our nostalgia heartstrings, while at the same time kicking long-time Connor Furlong fans in the gut. Not a good look.
Now the best possible scenario for T:DF would turn out to be “good on its own but tonally/canonically wrong” (alas Star Trek 2009), or bomb as “part three of trilogy-starter-trilogy”
Either way, it’s certain that what we’ve been waiting for is perminantly terminated (alas Star War VII-IX planned in late 80s).
Now it’s a good time to reprint S.M.Stiring’s trilogy in a collected hardcover volume with bluish-silver foil cover, better if they can get Stirling back to revise and expand part 3 as I heard it was done in tight schudule, plus behind-the-scene for creative process included. And a belated collected edition for “Cybernetic Dawn/Nuclear Twilight” comic w/ motion comic DVD, preferably match blu-ray box size to put together with canon disc, if Lightstorm would ever permit.
If not, I fear web price for those books would soon go skyrocket as high as nuclear warhead…