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Terminator: Dark Fate's first trailer brings Linda Hamilton back as Sarah Connor

The new instalment also returns James Cameron to producing duties.

Jennifer Bisset Former Senior Editor / Culture
Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 at the Australian IT Journalism Awards.
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The Terminator is back. For the sixth time.

The latest in the series, Terminator: Dark Fate, teased us Wednesday with a sunset-drenched poster focused on Linda Hamilton, the mother of cool mothers, as Sarah Connor. Then came the trailer on Thursday, placing her front and center with a moment inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger's gunslinging coolness.

Dark Fate is a direct sequel to James Cameron's Judgement Day, ignoring everything that happened in 2015's widely panned Genisys, as well as Rise of The Machines and Salvation. The poster promises the sequel's events will take place "the day after Judgment Day," with Sarah Connor as the future leader of the Resistance in the war against Skynet, another AI humans can't seem to get along with.

Terminator newcomer Mackenzie Davis, who Black Mirror fans will know from the episode San Junipero, plays a super-soldier sent from the future to protect Natalia Reyes' Dani Ramos from a new Terminator. Saving a minor who's important for reasons that'll become clear in the future? Sounds like the franchise is returning to its jam.

Notably, behind-the-scenes an exciting story played out, with Cameron returning to the franchise as a producer after regaining the film rights this year. Deadpool director Tim Miller will take charge, so we can hope there'll be moments of comedy among the many big fights.

Terminator: Dark Fate will storm into theatres Nov. 1.

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