Linda Hamilton, the one and only true Sarah Conner, will be reprising her iconic role as the helpless waitress turned survivalist badass.
James Cameron, the original Terminator creator and director, announced that the latest installment will ignore the prior three films, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, and the wildly unpopular Terminator Genisys. The currently untitled Terminator ‘reboot’ will pick up where Terminator 2: Judgement Day left off, just a few decades later.
“There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys,” Cameron said to the Hollywood Reporter. “But there isn’t an example of that for women.”
Deadpool director Tim Miller will man the help for the latest Terminator sequel with Cameron acting as the primary producer. Arnold Schwarzenegger is also slated to reprise his role as the killer cyborg now that Hamilton is on board for the ride.
This will be the first film including the principal cast and creators since 1991. Hamilton and Cameron were married during the late 1990s, but both director and star sat out of the 2003, 2009, and 2015 films.
Cameron has been tight lipped about any major plot points for the new film, but he did confirm that it will “pass the baton” to a new generation of actors. “We’re starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story,” Cameron said. “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.”
Watch one of the most badass scenes from Terminator 2 below, the moment Hamilton and Schwarzenegger are reunited in the psyche ward.