Was Terminator: Dark Fate made with China in mind? ‘Not for a second,’ says director Tim Miller
- The 6th Terminator film is a return to the feel of the original two installations, says Miller
- Original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton return, as does producer James Cameron
The Terminator franchise has become an increasingly troublesome beast. James Cameron’s 1984 original The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a relentless cyborg killer, and its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day are rightly considered landmark sci-fi films.
But the Cameron-free sequels – Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys – increasingly tied themselves in knots, unable to recapture the magic of the first two films. So when it came to crafting Terminator: Dark Fate, the sixth instalment in 35 years, there was only one thing to do.
“We all knew that we wanted it to be an evolution of those first two films,” director Tim Miller ( Deadpool ) tells the Post in an interview. “It was always about a continuation of Terminator 2.”
How could it be anything else? With Cameron returning as a producer and story consultant, on screen Schwarzenegger and co-star Linda Hamilton are back together for the first time since T2.
For the diehard fans, it means the reprise of Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, the waitress-turned-warrior who ultimately gives birth to the future leader of the resistance in a world one day overrun by machines. “I think with Linda coming back, it really was a return,” says Miller.