Terminator: Dark Fate director, Tim Miller, was interviewed by BoxOfficePro about the comparisons between his Terminator movie and the groundbreaking, fan-pleasing, Terminator 2: Judgment Day; in which Mr. Miller goes on to state that T:DF is ‘a lot darker than the other Terminator movies’.
BoxOfficePro asked Tim about the humor in Terminator: Dark Fate…
“The humor is very dry and dark.”
BoxOfficepro
“Yeah, like, you know, [quoting a line from the movie] “a person who has her own episode of America’s Most Wanted.”’
Tim Miller
“Yes, exactly.”
Boxofficepro
“There’s a few of those, but there are not many. This movie is a lot darker than the other Terminator movies, where if you look at T2, nobody really dies—I mean, maybe somebody in a car they ran over. But here we’ve got… let’s just say there’s a lot of death in the movie, and death is a hard thing to preface levity with, so it doesn’t feel right to crack a lot of jokes. We actually had more humor in the script. And then you go, “Okay, well we can’t make this joke because so and so just died five minutes before.” You can’t have the main character cracking wise.
Tim Miller
But Linda does have a certain—she is funny, and her main goal in life as an actor is to do a comedy before she before she, quote, “hangs it up.” She really wants to do comedy. But yeah, I think there are some darkly humorous lines. Usually people are so happy when Arnold shows up later in the movie because they know it’s going to be a little lighter and fluffier, oddly enough. You can feel it in the audience when Arnold shows up. They’re like, “Okay, wow, this has been heavy. Now we’re going to get a little bit of relief from that.”
It’s interesting that Tim Miller believes that Terminator: Dark Fate is darker than the other movies, being that T:DF is supposed to be a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day – the movie that the latest instalment attempts to ape with almost every scene…
Is Tim determined to undermine the sentiments of the story of T2, and also now, its perceived lack of darkness (not to mention the darkness of its predecessor, The Terminator) – or has he simply forgotten who he’s supposed to marketing his Terminator movie to?
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