Shot by Shot with the ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Trailer

Producer James Cameron returns and he's bringing Linda Hamilton with him.

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Sarah is impressed by Grace’s actions on the highway. “I’ve never seen one like you before…”

“…almost human.” Grace is handcuffed to a gurney while doctors explore her wounds. We don’t see any blood, but there is a goopy yellow goo oozing beneath a thin copper mesh directly below her skin. Grace rips free from her handcuffs.

In a flashback to her arrival from the future, Grace devastates a group of LAPD officers. She snatches their batons from them, cracks their skulls, and tosses their bodies like paper airplanes. Sticking to the mythology of time travel, she’s completely nude as only organic tissue can make the time-jump. She takes the body armor off the cops and gets strapped for battle. Grace responds to Sarah’s backhanded compliment by confirming her bionic status with “I am human.” In the new future, they can rebuild you; they have the technology.

Grace asks Sarah, “Why do you care what happens to her?”

“Because I was her,” says Sarah. The fate of the future now rests with Dani Ramos which begs the question: what about John Connor? What happened to little Edward Furlong? Somehow the events of T2 made his purpose irrelevant. Is he dead? Did he disown his crazy mother? What’s going on there?

The three women arrive at their destination and meet a bearded and grey Arnold Schwarzenegger. We knew that the original T-800 would return, but we also know that the human being from which the Skynet model was based on is making an appearance as well. I believe that’s who we’re looking at here. A comical variation of this character appeared briefly in the now-terminated Terminator 3. If you pursue the IMDb credits for Dark Fate, you’ll see that the young Arnie body double (Brett Azar) that stood in for the de-aged T-800 in Genisys is in this cast as well.

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Brad Gullickson: Brad Gullickson is a Weekly Columnist for Film School Rejects and Senior Curator for One Perfect Shot. When not rambling about movies here, he's rambling about comics as the co-host of Comic Book Couples Counseling. Hunt him down on Twitter: @MouthDork. (He/Him)