Paramount Pictures and Skydance attempted to revive the Terminator franchise with a new entry titled Terminator: Dark Fate. Unfortunately, the film didn’t resonate with enough moviegoers to yield box office success and plans were for a sequel were canceled, though actress Mackenzie Davis has now shed light on what had been planned for the future of the series.
Davis, who made her first appearance in the franchise with Dark Fate, portrayed an enhanced super-soldier from the year 2042 named Grace. As a teenager, Grace had been taken in and trained by Daniella Ramos, the commanding founder of the Resistance in the war between humans and the Legion’s army of machines. Serving as part of Ramos’ security detail, Grace sustained critical injuries that resulted in her volunteering to be transformed into a cyborg with the ability to briefly take on abilities similar to those of Terminators.
Armed with these new augmentations, Grace is sent back in time to protect a younger Daniella from the Legion’s advanced Terminator known as the Rev-9. However, Grace’s abilities do not make her immune to the normal weaknesses of humans and though she is successful in ensuring Daniella would live to lead the Resistance in the future, the victory comes at the cost of her own life.
Nonetheless, Davis revealed that her character was slated to return for the sequel had plans to continue the Terminator franchise moved forward. “It was gonna be a sort of timeline thing, where there’d be another timeline that you’d explore. Like, there’s no resurrection, but she came from the future,” she explained during an interview on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast.
The franchise had previously played with the concept of alternate timelines in Terminator Genisys. Released in 2015, Genysis was primarily set in a timeline where a young Sarah Connor, played by Emilia Clarke, had been raised by a reprogrammed Terminator. Plans for Genisys sequels were eventually scrapped in favor of Dark Fate, which served as a direct sequel to the original Terminator and Judgement Day while ignoring all other entries in the franchise.
Of course, much of the frustration directed towards Dark Fate stemmed from the creative team’s decision to kill off Edward Furlong’s John Connor. In doing so, many long-time fans of the Terminator franchise felt the filmmaker had done a disservice to the accomplishments of both Sarah and John in Judgement Day.
Meanwhile, Davis’ career has not been without success since the release of Dark Fate. The Canadian actress recently starred opposite Kristen Stewart in Hulu’s Happiest Season, a romantic comedy centered on the relationship between two women that has proven to be a hit for the streamer.
Source: Happy Sad Confused
