Terminator: Dark Fate Dvd

Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller, from a screenplay by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes, and Billy Ray, from a story by James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, Goyer, and Rhodes. Cameron also produced the film with David Ellison. It is the sixth installment in the Terminator film franchise, and acts as a direct sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), while disregarding T2-3D: Battle Across Time (1996), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015), and the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) as occurring in alternate timelines, following the return of creative control to Cameron.

The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sarah Connor and the T-800 Terminator, respectively, reuniting the actors after 23 years, and introduces Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, and Gabriel Luna as new characters. Set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, the film sees the machines sending an advanced Terminator (Luna), designated Rev-9, back in time to 2020 to kill Dani Ramos (Reyes), whose fate is connected to the future. The Resistance also sends Grace (Davis), an augmented soldier, back in time to defend Dani, while they are joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet’s T-800 Terminator.

Filming for Terminator: Dark Fate took place from June to November 2018 in Hungary, Spain, and the United States. Distributed by Paramount Pictures in North America and 20th Century Fox in other territories, the film was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2019. It was considered a box-office bomb, grossing $261 million against an estimated production budget of $185–196 million and an additional $80–100 million for marketing. With a break-even point of $450–480 million, losses for the studios involved reached $130 million, and plans for any future films were cancelled. The film received generally favorable reviews; many critics deemed it a return to form for the series and praised the cast and action scenes, although they were polarized by its narrative choices.

Plot

In 1998, three years after averting the threat of Skynet, Sarah and John Connor are enjoying life by a beach in Livingston, Guatemala, when they are suddenly attacked by a T-800 Terminator. One of several sent back through time by Skynet prior to its erasure, the Terminator kills John before leaving.

In 2020, an advanced Terminator, the Rev-9, is sent back in time to Mexico City, to murder Daniella “Dani” Ramos, who will become a threat to the machines in the future. A cybernetically enhanced soldier, Grace, is sent from 2042 to protect her. The Rev-9, disguised as Dani’s father, infiltrates the automobile assembly plant where Dani and her brother Diego work, but is thwarted by Grace, who escapes with the siblings. The Rev-9, revealing its ability to split into its cybernetic endoskeleton and shape-shifting liquid metal exterior, pursues them, killing Diego and cornering Grace and Dani. However, Sarah arrives and temporarily disables the Terminator with explosives.

Dani, Grace, and Sarah retreat to a motel. Sarah reveals that she found them because, in the years since John’s death, she has received encrypted messages detailing the locations of arriving Terminators, each ending with “For John”. Sarah has used these messages to hunt down and destroy each Terminator. Grace notes that neither Skynet nor John exists in her timeline. Instead, humanity is threatened by an AI called Legion, originally developed for cyberwarfare. When Legion became a threat to humans, an attempt was made to neutralize it with nuclear weapons, resulting in a nuclear holocaust and the AI creating a global network of machines to terminate the human survivors.

Grace traces Sarah’s messages to Laredo, Texas. Barely evading the Rev-9 and the authorities while crossing the Mexico–United States border, they arrive at their source, where they discover the same T-800 that murdered John. Having fulfilled its mission and with Skynet no longer existing, the T-800 was left aimless. Through learning however, it became self-aware. During that time, it learned from humanity and developed a conscience, taking the name “Carl” and adopting a human family. After learning how its actions affected Sarah and being able to detect the location of temporal displacements, Carl decided to forewarn her of them to give her purpose thereby attempts to make amends. Carl offers to join them against the Rev-9, and they make preparations to destroy it. Sarah begrudgingly agrees to work together for Dani’s sake. Anticipating the Rev-9’s arrival, Carl bids its family farewell and tells them to escape. The group gives Dani brief tactical weapons training and plans on how to ambush the Rev-9.

To do so, they seek out a military-grade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from an acquaintance of Sarah’s. The Rev-9 catches up with them, forcing them to steal a C-5 Galaxy to escape, though the EMP’s are destroyed in the resulting shootout. During the flight, Grace reveals that Dani becomes the future founding commander of the Resistance, as well as her rescuer. The Rev-9 boards their airplane via a KC-10 Extender and temporarily subdues Carl, forcing Grace, Sarah, and Dani to jump from the plane into a river near a hydro-power plant, with Carl and the Rev-9 following close behind.

Bludgeoned, the group makes their stand inside the plant. In the ensuing battle, Carl and Grace force the Rev-9 into a spinning turbine, causing an explosion that critically damages the two Terminators and mortally wounds Grace. The severely damaged Rev-9 endoskeleton incapacitates Sarah, forcing Dani to confront it herself. A dying Grace tells Dani to use her power source to destroy the Rev-9. Dani tries to fight the Rev-9, but is quickly overpowered. Carl reactivates itself and restrains the Rev-9, allowing Dani to stab it with Grace’s power source. Carl drags itself and the Rev-9 over a ledge and tells Sarah, “For John”, right before the power core explodes, destroying them both.

Sometime later, Dani and Sarah watch over a ten-year-old Grace at a playground with her family, the former determined to avert Grace’s death and Legion’s rise. Sarah then tells Dani she needs to get ready, with Grace watching as the pair drives off.

Cast

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, the mother of the former future leader of the Human Resistance in the war against Skynet. Now a battle-hardened senior woman and left alone after her son’s death, Sarah hunts and kills Terminators to prevent Judgment Day and forestall the coming conflict. After learning of Dani’s destiny leading a new Resistance against the rogue AI Legion, she prepares Dani as she did John.
Maddy Curley serves as a stunt actress and body double for young Sarah Connor, with CGI applied to recreate Hamilton’s facial likeness from the 1990s opening scene.
Jessi Fisher serves as a stunt actress and body double for present day Sarah Connor.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, credited as “T-800 / Carl”, an aging Terminator built by Skynet, and one of several sent back in time to kill John. After completing its mission, it gained autonomy and integrated into human society, eventually beginning an emotional affair with a woman while raising her son. It lives in Laredo, Texas and owns a drapery business. It later joins forces with Sarah and Grace to help protect Dani from the Rev-9, although Sarah continues to hate Carl for John’s death.
Brett Azar serves as a body double for the young T-800, with CGI applied to recreate Schwarzenegger’s facial likeness from the 1990s opening scene. Azar reprises this role from Terminator Genisys.
Mackenzie Davis as Grace, an enhanced super soldier from 2042 who was previously taken in by Daniella as a teenager. Grace was subsequently trained and raised by Daniella. Grace is later part of a security detail for Daniella, and she sustains stab wounds while fighting off a Rev-7 Terminator. Following the attack, she volunteers to be converted into a cyborg. Augmented with technology, she has abilities comparable to those of a Terminator for short periods of time, and requires medication and nourishment to replenish her strength. Her enhanced senses and abilities allow her to detect machines such as Legion’s before normal humans. Grace is sent to protect Daniella’s younger self from Legion’s Rev-9.
Stephanie Gil portrays Grace as a 10-year-old in the present day and as a teenager in the flashforwards.
Natalia Reyes as Daniella “Dani” Ramos, a young woman who works with her brother at an automobile assembly plant in Mexico City. Dani is being targeted for termination by the Rev-9. At first, Sarah believes that Dani is the Resistance leader’s destined mother (like Sarah). However, it is revealed that Dani is fated to take on a role akin to that of Sarah’s deceased son, as the Resistance’s founding commander in the war against the machines of Legion, with Sarah as her mentor. In the future, Dani sends Grace back in time to stop the Rev-9, and she instructs Grace to seek the T-800 for aid by tattooing its location’s coordinates on her.
Gabriel Luna as Gabriel / Rev-9, an advanced Terminator that originated from Legion and was sent back in time to terminate Dani. Featuring a traditional solid endoskeleton covered with liquid metal, the Rev-9 possesses the ability to separate these two components into two separate, fully autonomous units.
Diego Boneta as Diego Ramos, Dani’s brother.
Tristán Ulloa as Felipe Gandal, Dani’s uncle and a border coyote.
Alicia Borrachero as Alicia, Carl’s wife.
Manuel Pacific as Mateo, Carl’s step-son.
Enrique Arce as Vicente, Dani’s and Diego’s father.
Fraser James as Major Dean, a United States Air Force intelligence officer and Sarah’s acquaintance.
Tom Hopper as William Hardell, Grace’s commanding officer in the Resistance.
Stuart McQuarrie as Craig, Dani and Diego’s work supervisor.
Steven Cree as Rigby, a United States Border Patrol agent
Georgia Simon, the film’s ADR voice casting director, provided the voice of Grace’s mother.
Edward Furlong as “John Connor reference”, a young version of John Connor created using CGI and motion capture.
Aaron Kunitz provided the voice of young John Connor.
Jude Collie served as a body double for young John Connor, onto which Furlong’s facial likeness from the 1990s was applied.
Earl Boen appears as Dr. Silberman via archival footage from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.