he sixth film in the saga,
Terminator: Dark Fate
wipes clean the slate (and
by slate we mean movies
3-5) to set its story in the aftermath of
the events of Terminator 2: Judgment
Day. A little hazy on those events?
That’s not surprising – T2 was released
28 years ago! Thank goodness then
for our handy timeline, which brings
you up to speed on the key goings-on
in T2, its predecessor The Terminator
and this newest chapter. By the way,
did we mention that T2’s Ed, Arnie
and Linda are back for 6, and James
Cameron too (as writer-producer). The
fates really have aligned for this one!
1995
A new model of Terminator, the T-1000,
is sent to kill 10-year-old John Connor, while
a reprogrammed T-800 (now answering
to the Resistance) arrives to protect John.
The T-800 and John rescue John’s mother
Sarah from a mental facility. Together they
destroy Cyberdyne Systems, the corporation
responsible for the creation of Skynet.
After an almighty battle, the T-1000 is
terminated. The T-800 then sacrifices itself
to prevent any further reverse engineering.
1997
Terminator: Dark Fate – out 23 Oct
The initial year artificial
intelligence system Skynet was
supposed to become self-aware
and initiate ‘Judgement Day’.
(This future was seemingly
thwarted by the events of 1995.)
1985
The future leader of the
Resistance, John Connor, is born.
1984
The T-800, a seemingly invincible machine, arrives
from the future to kill waitress Sarah Connor. Human
Resistance fighter Kyle Reese is sent to protect her.
Kyle Reese is killed, while the T-800 is terminated.
Sarah discovers that she is pregnant with Kyle’s baby.
Cyberdyne Systems – a manufacturing corporation –
recovers the remains of the T-800 from a hydraulic press.
1994
John is taken into foster
care after Sarah attempts to
blow up a computer factory.
Sarah’s continued insistence that
“Judgement Day” is coming sees
her locked up in a mental hospital.
James Cameron returns to the franchise that made his name
Responsible for two of the three most successful films
ever made, James Cameron not only knows how to
play the Hollywood game, he knows how to change
the rules. And he’s done it countless times throughout
the course of his epic career, beginning in 1984 with
only his second feature, The Terminator. Described
by
Out as “damn close to perfect”, this violently
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thrilling sci-fi was unlike anything audiences had seen
before – and it marked Cameron out as a director
to watch. Always desiring to push the envelope
further, he then repeated the trick in 1991 when he
unveiled the equally groundbreaking Terminator 2:
Judgment Day. Having him back on producing and
writing duties for Dark Fate is very exciting indeed.