What happened in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), one of the most important action science-fiction movies of all time, is far. Far both in the calendar but also on the screen. The Terminator franchise has spawned a lot since then, with a bunch of movie sequels Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and Terminator Genisys (2015), a TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) and even the web series Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series (2009). None of them got even close to reaching the popularity, social impact and high quality of the epics started by The Terminator (1984) and its sequel.
James Cameron, the father fo the creature, writer and director of the first two movies, got unattached from the project and had no participation in any of the franchise products further Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). But now he is back! The new Terminator movie, with the final title Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), is based on a story where Cameron has participated, together with the writers of the screenplay David S. Goyer (Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and Dark City (1998)), Justin Rhodes (announced to write the script for Neill Blomkamp’s RoboCop Returns) and Billy Ray (Overlord (2018), The Hunger Games (2012)). James Cameron is also the producer of the movie alongside David Ellison of Skydance Media.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) is a direct sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), so it takes in no consideration all the sequels or shows happened in this century. More than two decades after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor sets out to protect a young woman named Dani Ramos and her friends as a liquid metal Terminator sent from the future attempts to terminate them. We see new robots, new Terminators, and also the old one, the T-800. Or an old version of him. Because time passes the same for all of us, being made of metal or flesh.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning in their iconic roles Sarah Connor and T-800, respectively, alongside Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Brett Azar, Alicia Borrachero, Steven Cree, Tábata Cerezo, Björn Freiberg and Fraser James. Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool (2016), was behind the cameras. Filming started on June 4, 2018, in Spain, Hungary and the USA, and wrapped in early November 2018.
Distributed by Paramount Pictures in North America and 20th Century Fox under Walt Disney Studios in other territories, the film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2019. Now the first official trailer is finally out and you can watch it here:
