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Blade Runner 2049’s Mackenzie Davis To Star In New Terminator Movie

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The various efforts to get people interested in a post-T2 Terminator franchise have largely foundered, but there’s been more interest in a new attempt, which will bring James Cameron back as a producer/creative force, as well as original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Now they have some company in the form of Blade Runner 2049 star Mackenzie Davis, according to Variety.

There’s little info on the plot of the new instalment, bit it’s said that Davis will be ‘a solder-assassin on a mission.’ She will apparently be human rather than android though (unlike her role in Blade Runner 2049). One other thing we know about the movie is that it’s likely to either ignore everything after Terminator 2, or reset the timeline so it can do just that. There are also conflicting reports about whether Davis will be the new ‘face’ of the Terminator franchise, or whether someone else will be the lead, but it does appear she plays a central role in the movie.

The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips scribe Billy Ray is writing the latest version of the script, with Deadpool’s Tim Miller set to direct. The movie is due for release July 2019.

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Linda Hamilton Will Be Back As Sarah Connor In A New Terminator Movie

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It’s been a long time since Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor. She stepped away from the franchise after Terminator 2 back in 1991. However, now that James Cameron is returning to produce what he hopes will be a new trilogy, Hamilton has decided she’d be happy to return to the role too.

Arnie is also attached to the new films, with Tim Miller (Deadpool), set to direct.

THR first reported on the news of Hamilton’s return, reporting Cameron as saying, “As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then [when T2 was made], it’s going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she’s become return… There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys, but there isn’t an example of that for women.”

At the moment there’s no info on the plot or how the original Sarah Connor will fit into it. Indeed, it appears that they’re currently still piecing the overarching storyline of the trilogy together, but now know they can include Hamilton within those plans. There is one nugget Cameron has released about the movies, saying “We’re starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story. We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present. There will be mostly new characters, but we’ll have Arnold and Linda’s characters to anchor it.”

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James Cameron Bringing In Deadpool Director Tim Miller For New Terminator Movie

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After Terminator 2, the franchise has struggled. The rights have been passed around, with each new owner hoping they could bring it back to life, but each coming up with a film that audiences met with a shrug. What many thought was missing was James Cameron.

However,Cameron will be getting the rights back to many parts of the franchise in 2019, and it looks like he’s planning to get a new Terminator movie made when he does. He’s teaming up with David Ellison’s Skydance Productions, which currently owns the rights (and will retain rights to aspects of Terminator created after the first movie) to create something which is currently being described as a conclusion for the franchise. Unsurprisingly, as he’s got four Avatar sequels to make, he won’t be directing the film, with Deadline reporting that he’s hoping to bring in Deadpool helmer Tim Miller to direct it.

Cameron will be involved though, acting in a ‘godfather’ capacity, to help ensure that the story, script and production stay on track. There is no news though on what the film will be, or whether Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in any way.

Cameron has previously been involved in books and comics that followed the T2 continuity, ignoring the movies that followed, so it’s possible this film will do the same. Indeed, with its time travel premise, the continuity of the series has got so convoluted, it wouldn’t be difficult to find a way to wipe out everything post T2 (which Genisys sort of did anyway).

At the moment the film is several years away, so currently the possibilities for it are wide open.

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