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Terminator: Dark Fate

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Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film which serves as the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and as a direct sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events depicted in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Salvation (2009). The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising their characters Sarah Connor and the T-800 Terminator, respectively, and introduces Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna and Diego Boneta as new characters. Dark Fate is directed by Tim Miller and written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, and Billy Ray, based on a story by James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, Goyer, and Rhodes.

The film is set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, when the machines send an advanced Terminator (Luna) back in time to 2020 with instructions to kill Dani Ramos (Reyes), whose fate is connected to the future. The Resistance also sends Grace (Davis), an augmented soldier, back in time to defend Dani, who is also joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet's T-800. Principal photography took place from June to November 2018 in Hungary, Spain, and the United States.

Distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and 20th Century Fox internationally, the film was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2019. Terminator: Dark Fate received mixed reviews from critics, being considered an improvement over recent predecessors. However, the film grossed $261.1 million worldwide and lost $122.6 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.

Plot[]

In 1998, three years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems,[note 1] Sarah and John Connor are enjoying life by a beach in Livingston, Guatemala, when they are suddenly ambushed by a T-800 Terminator. One of several sent back through time by Skynet, the Terminator kills John and leaves, despite Sarah's attempts to stop it.

In 2020, an advanced Terminator, the Rev-9, is sent back in time to Mexico City to murder Dani Ramos, while a cybernetically enhanced soldier, Grace, is sent from 2042 to protect her. The Rev-9, disguised as Dani's father, infiltrates the automobile assembly plant where Dani and her brother Diego work, but is thwarted by Grace, who escapes with the siblings. The Rev-9, using its ability to split into two distinct entities (its cybernetic endoskeleton and shape-shifting liquid metal exterior), pursues them, killing Diego and cornering Grace and Dani. However, Sarah arrives and temporarily disables both entities using military-grade weaponry.

Dani, Grace, and Sarah retreat to a motel. Sarah reveals that she found them because in the years since John's death, she has received encrypted messages detailing the locations of arriving Terminators, each ending with "For John", allowing her to destroy them before they become threats. Grace notes that Skynet and John do not exist in her future and thus Sarah had succeeded in destroying the former after Cyberdyne went defunct. However, humanity's future is threatened by another AI called Legion, originally developed for cyberwarfare; this system is built in Skynet's place. When Legion became a threat to humans, an attempt was made to neutralize it with nuclear weapons, resulting in a nuclear holocaust and the AI creating a global network of machines to terminate the human survivors. The survivors then organized as the Human Resistance to counter Legion's onslaughts, and Dani's destiny is linked to their war against it.

Grace traces Sarah's messages to Laredo, Texas. Barely evading the Rev-9 and the authorities while crossing the Mexico–United States border, they arrive at their source, where they discover the same T-800 that had murdered John. Having fulfilled its mission and with Skynet no longer existing, the T-800 was left aimless. Through learning, however, it became self-aware. During that time, it learned from humanity and developed a conscience, taking the name "Carl" and adopting a human family. After learning how its actions affected Sarah and being able to detect the location of temporal displacements, Carl decided to forewarn her of them to give her purpose to make amends. Carl offers to join them against the Rev-9, and they prepare to destroy it, with Sarah begrudgingly agreeing to work together for Dani's sake. Anticipating the Rev-9's arrival, Carl bids its family farewell and tells them to escape.

They seek out a military-grade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generator from an acquaintance of Sarah's. The Rev-9 catches up with them, forcing them to steal a plane to escape, though the EMP generators are destroyed in the resulting shootout. During the flight, Grace reveals the Rev-9's motive that Dani becomes the future founding commander of the Resistance who destroyed Legion. The Rev-9 boards their airplane and temporarily subdues Carl, forcing Grace, Sarah, and Dani to parachute from the plane into a river near a hydroelectric plant, with Carl and the Rev-9 following close behind.

Bludgeoned, the group makes its stand inside the plant. In the ensuing battle, Carl and Grace force the Rev-9 into a spinning turbine, causing an explosion that critically damages the two Terminators, while mortally wounding Grace. The severely damaged Rev-9 endoskeleton incapacitates Sarah, forcing Dani to confront it herself. A dying Grace tells Dani to use her power source to destroy the Rev-9. Dani tries to fight it but is quickly overpowered. Carl reactivates itself and restrains the Rev-9, allowing Dani to stab it with Grace's power source. Carl drags itself and the Rev-9 over a ledge, right before the power core explodes, destroying them both.

Sometime later, Dani and Sarah watch a young Grace at a playground with her family, the former determined to avert Grace's death and Legion's rise. Sarah then tells Dani she needs to get ready, with Grace watching as the pair drives off.

Cast[]

  • Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor, the former future leader of the Human Resistance in the war against Skynet. Now a battle-hardened senior woman and left alone after John's death, Sarah hunts and kills Skynet's remaining Terminators to prevent Judgment Day and forestall the coming conflict.[1] After learning of Dani's destiny leading a new Resistance against the rogue AI Legion and realizes her own purpose in the new timeline, she prepares Dani as she did John.
    • Maddy Curley serves as a stunt actress and body double for young Sarah Connor, with CGI applied to recreate Hamilton's facial likeness from the 1990s opening scene.
    • Jessi Fisher serves as a stunt actress and body double for present day Sarah Connor.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 / Carl: An aging Terminator built by Skynet, and one of several sent back in time to kill John.[2] After completing its mission, it gained autonomy and integrated into human society, becomes benign and later starting an emotional relationship with a woman while raising her son. It lives in Laredo, Texas and owns a drapery business.[3] It later joins forces with Sarah and Grace to help protect Dani from the Rev-9, although Sarah continues to hate Carl for John's death. Dark Fate marks the first film in the series where Schwarzenegger appears as the titular character but does not receive top billing.
    • Brett Azar serves as a body double for the young T-800, with CGI applied to recreate Schwarzenegger's facial likeness from the 1990s opening scene. Azar reprises this role from Terminator Genisys.[4]
  • Mackenzie Davis as Grace, an enhanced super soldier from 2042 who was previously taken in by Dani as a teenager. Grace was subsequently trained and raised by Dani. Grace is later part of a security detail for Dani, and she sustains stab wounds while fighting off a Rev-7 Terminator. Following the attack, she volunteers to be converted into a cyborg. Augmented with technology, she has abilities comparable to those of a Terminator for short periods of time, and requires medication, nourishment, and rest to replenish her strength. Her enhanced senses and abilities allow her to detect machines such as Legion's before normal humans. Grace is sent to protect Dani's younger self from Legion's Rev-9.[5]
    • Stephanie Gil portrays a 10-year-old Grace.[6]
  • Natalia Reyes as Dani Ramos, a young woman who works with her brother at an automobile assembly plant in Mexico City. Dani is being targeted for termination by the Rev-9.[7][8] At first, Sarah believes that Dani is the Resistance leader's destined mother (like Sarah). However, it is revealed that Dani is fated to take on a role akin to that of Sarah's deceased son, as the Resistance's founding commander in the war against the machines of Legion, with Sarah as her mentor. In the future, Dani sends Grace back in time to stop the Rev-9, and she instructs Grace to seek the T-800 for aid by tattooing its location's coordinates on her.
  • Gabriel Luna as Gabriel / Rev-9, an advanced Terminator that originated from Legion and was sent back in time to terminate Dani. Featuring a traditional solid endoskeleton covered with liquid metal, the Rev-9 possesses the ability to separate these two components into two separate, fully autonomous units.[9]
  • Diego Boneta[10] as Diego Ramos, Dani's brother.[8]
  • Tristán Ulloa as Felipe Gandal, Dani's uncle and a border coyote.
  • Alicia Borrachero as Alicia, Carl's wife.[11]
  • Manuel Pacific as Mateo, Carl's step-son.[12]
  • Enrique Arce[13] as Vicente, Dani's and Diego's father.
  • Fraser James as Major Dean, a United States Air Force intelligence officer and Sarah's acquaintance.
  • Tom Hopper as William Hardell, Grace's commanding officer in the Resistance.[14]
  • Stuart McQuarrie as Craig, Dani and Diego's work supervisor.
  • Steven Cree as Rigby, a United States Border Patrol agent
  • Georgia Simon, the film's ADR voice casting director, provided the voice of Grace's mother.
  • Edward Furlong as "John Connor reference",[15] a young version of John Connor created using CGI and motion capture.[16]
    • Aaron Kunitz provided the voice of young John Connor.[15]
    • Jude Collie served as a body double for young John Connor, onto which Furlong's facial likeness from the 1990s was applied.[17][18][19][20]
  • Earl Boen appears as Dr. Silberman via uncredited archival footage from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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Notes[]

  1. ↑ As depicted in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

References[]

  1. ↑ El-Mahmoud, Sarah (May 25, 2019). [TBA Terminator: Dark Fate Is Rated R and Continues John Connor's Story, James Cameron Confirms]. CinemaBlend.
  2. ↑ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[TBA Tim Miller Talks Terminator: Dark Fate – San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Interview] Check |url= value (help). ComicBook.com. July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019 – via YouTube. Check |archive-url= value (help)
  3. ↑ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lawrence, Derek (July 18, 2019). [TBA "Arnold Schwarzenegger on why he's back for Terminator: Dark Fate: 'I'm addicted to Terminator'"] Check |url= value (help). Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 24, 2019. Check |archive-url= value (help)
  4. ↑ Scott, Ryan (May 2, 2018). [TBA Terminator 6 Brings in Young Schwarzenegger Actor from Terminator Genisys]. MovieWeb.
  5. ↑ [TBA Terminator 6 Gets Blade Runner 2049 Star Mackenzie Davis]. MovieWeb (March 8, 2018).
  6. ↑ [TBA Career | Stephanie Gil]. Cristina Chaparro Management.
  7. ↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 13, 2018). [TBA Gabriel Luna Is New Terminator; Natalia Reyes & Diego Boneta Also Set to Star in Tim Miller–Jim Cameron Reboot]. Deadline Hollywood.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harrington, Delia (August 12, 2019). [TBA Terminator: Dark Fate – Natalia Reyes on New Character Dani]. Den of Geek.
  9. ↑ Trumbore, Dave (May 23, 2019). [TBA New Terminator: Dark Fate Images Reveal Gabriel Luna's Two-part Terminator]. Collider.
  10. ↑ [TBA Terminator 6 Targets Scream Queens Star Diego Boneta]. MovieWeb (April 9, 2018).
  11. ↑ V. Nepales, Ruben (October 17, 2019). [TBA When the Terminator and Conan himself gives you a ballsy compliment ...]. Philippine Daily Inquirer.
  12. ↑ [TBA Manuel Pacific in Terminator: Dark Fate]. Rossmore Personal Management Ltd..
  13. ↑ Miska, Brad (November 6, 2018). [TBA Next Terminator Filming Under the Moniker 'Phoenix' [Updated]]. Bloody Disgusting.
  14. ↑ Martin, Michileen. [TBA Why the cast of Terminator: Dark Fate looks so familiar] (en-US). Looper.com.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Sandwell, Ian (October 23, 2019). [TBA How Terminator: Dark Fate brings back Edward Furlong's John Connor]. Digital Spy.
  16. ↑ McCreesh, Louise (November 27, 2019). [TBA Terminator's John Connor star responds to Dark Fate's controversial twist: "It kinda bums me out."].
  17. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named stand-ins
  18. ↑ Miska, Brad (July 19, 2019). [TBA About Edward Furlong's Terminator: Dark Fate Return as John Connor]. Bloody Disgusting.
  19. ↑ Ridgely, Charlie (July 18, 2019). [TBA Edward Furlong Officially Returning as John Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate]. ComicBook.com.
  20. ↑ Franklin, Garth (July 20, 2019). [TBA/ Rumor On Furlong's Dark Fate Role Revealed]. Dark Horizons.

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