Terminator: Dark Fate was a financial failure, effectively putting the kibosh on a trilogy which was set to kick into gear with TDF. One victim of the box-office fallout was of course, the much loved, Terminator legend Linda Hamilton.
Linda spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about potentially returning as Sarah Connor, she said:
“No. Something says to me… I don’t know. I would really appreciate maybe a smaller version where so many millions are not at stake. Today’s audience is just so unpredictable. I can’t tell you how many laymen just go, ‘Well, people don’t go to the movies anymore.’ It should definitely not be such a high-risk financial venture, but I would be quite happy to never return. So, no, I am not hopeful because I would really love to be done.”
Speaking of that controversial opening Dark Fate sequence and the termination of John Connor, Linda defended James Cameron’s decision to kill John, saying:
“I don’t think Sarah and John would be there at all if they were still fine and strong. I thought it was a great leaping-off point for my character. To create a new fuel and fire for Sarah Connor, I thought it was a very good story point. I’m not one that clings to past ideas… I just think it’s much more interesting to launch from a new place.”
It seems as if Linda Hamilton would consider a return to the Terminator franchise if the production had a smaller budget – possibly something, financially, more akin to The Terminator (1984), which is what most of the fanbase has been asking for a very long time – could a Terminator TV show be that “smaller version” Linda mentioned?
All we can say is… we feel that Skydance Media and Paramount Pictures failed Sarah Connor and Linda Hamilton, and whether Linda does or doesn’t want another round as Sarah Connor, we support her, she did the best she could with the material she had to work with on Dark Fate.
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Theres nothing wrong with dark fate and ive followed terminator since 1984.
The problem with movies these days?
The audience.!!
Audience expectation that if it doesnt do what i want or tell the story i want its a shit movie…
They did the same with last jedi and then backtracked after rise of skywalker
Both of those were fine.
No audience its not the movie its you.
I know its hard to hear but its true.
And linda hamilton wont BE BACK..
You deserve all you get
I totally agree with your opinion. Fandoms have become so ungrateful. I loved Dark Fate and it is makes a great conclusion to Sarah’s story. Thank you for your comments.
Thanks dude its great to know there are more of us out there shane
Reminds me of the governments:
You are all stupid, you just don’t understand us, we only want the best for you. Blablabla.
Dark fake remains politically correct gender gaga plus Mexican nightmare. Nobody wants to see that. People want a leashed hellhound dog (male) that eliminates everything in its path to the goal. Not such a rinsed action oversaturated air number.
All they had to do was treat Johnny Connor’s exit with a little bit of class and flash (passing-on-the-torch) OR just skip that disgusting opening scene entirely (reference it off-screen) and i would have been perfectly okay with the overall film Zeros, but instead they decided to send a “message”, sending the “message” was more important to Tim Miller, we received their message loud and clear, you are not getting our money.
Oh fuck off, the audience can smell when they’re not wanted. That’s why these films either lose money or underperform. The Rise of Skywalker was about as big a disaster at the box office as The Last Jedi, and don’t give me that “it made a billion dollars” answer. The Force Awakens made over $2 billion off the unsullied good will of the brand after a 10 year hiatus, and from then on it’s been downhill. The Last Jedi suffered the worst 2nd week box office dropoff for a sequel. Solo became the first Star Wars movie ever to lose money at the box office because of The Last Jedi and reshoots, let alone the fact they already killed him off as a deadbeat dad in TFA already. After all the reshoots Bad Robot had to do for TRoS, a billion is probably just shy of breaking even. Whether you’re talking toys, theme parks, or films, they’ve spent more money than they’re made. I’ll bet you they never made back their $4 billion dollar investment.
They’ll never admit it–they’ll blame it on Star Wars fatigue or bigots like the hacks they employed to make this latest trilogy–but they have destroyed the brand worse than anything George Lucas has ever done. Kids don’t give a shit about Star Wars, they care about Marvel and Fortnite. Why else would they make Palpatine’s galactic message exclusive to Fortnite? The absolute desperate insanity of Disney with Star Wars. No wonder they’re focusing on TV instead of films.
If you watch Dark Fate, armed with the knowledge that the script was almost totally rewritten the night before shooting began and then watch Linda…you can almost see her confusion.
As good as an actor as Linda Hamilton is, you can tell that shooting a film like that, out of sequence, with an unfinished script, left her in a state of semi-confusion in almost every scene.
She constantly reaches for moments where Sarah is bitter, glib, and sarcastic, but she never seems sure why she is acting one particular way or another and how it relates to what is going on around her.
Since Sarah Connor’s story is secondary in Dark Fate, Linda is left wrestling with feelings and emotions and trying to do something with them even though the script is as confused as her.
Consequently, there was a whole lot of “Why is Sarah being a bitch in this scene? What is her problem with Grace?”…etc…
To be fair to Sarah, Grace did hijacked her jeep (ungratefully)….:)
IMO i still maintain that overall Terminator: Dark Fate 2019 is a much better put-together movie/plot-line then all the post-T2JD sequels (it’s especially a significant improvement over Genisys) BUT it’s ruined by one super-critical scene and decision in it’s fundamental building blocks.
all we asked for was a graceful handling of John Connor’s exit from the new/updated franchise, i refuse to believe that Edward Furlong being woefully out of shape (with a bad rep) was the only reason for their fatal decision, the current polarization politics had to play a role too.
I don’t have any hard feelings against Linda, she did what she could to play her cartoonishly written character the best she could, I’m sure about that. She didn’t write it and she’s not to blame, she was offered a few millions and probably thought she’s working for a bigger thing (after all this years), but a contract is a contract.
But it’s nothing in comparison what multimillionaire Arnold “had” to “play”, I don’t really understand his decision to end his career like this for a few bucks more…
I’ll be happy if I never have to see Dark Fate again, too.
Je pense que le personnage de sarah connor (Linda Hamilton) reste le mieux de cet épisode DF mais tuer son fils détruit le script et le scénario d’entrée du film ! il y’avait encore de bonnes idées à la Genisys mais mal écrit pour en faire une bête de foire à la manière du T1 et 2 avec les effets visuels ! J’aurai tant aimé tous les voires réunis pour la bataille final ! à savoir le père de john sarah et le t800 pour mettre fin à skynet ! CAMERON revient parmi tes anciens en tant que réalisateur et équipe bordel !!!! 🙁