Terminator: Dark Fate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[manuel]

The song playing when the Rev 9 crashes through the shed at a BBQ ("Guitars, Cadillacs" by Dwight Yoakam) is the same song playing when the T-800 enters the bar at the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

[violet]

When Carl is explaining about his gun room,over his shoulder is an Uzi 9mm which the original terminator asked for in the gun store and used in the first film.

[fred]

The only Terminator movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton in which Earl Boen does not appear.

[albert]

The sunglasses worn by T-800/Carl in the flashback scene where he kills John Connor are exactly the same iconic model worn by the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

[jessica]

Mackenzie Davis was really naked in the scene where Grace fights the cops in the nude. The costume department offered Davis flesh colored underwear, but she declined to use them.

[kristen]

Grace bares a resemblance to Deunan Knute, the main female protagonist of Appleseed (2004) based on the comic book of the same name. The movie followed Deunan Knute and her partner Briareos (a cyborg) living in a post-apocalyptic world after surviving a global war protecting the Utopian city of Olympus from domestic and foreign threats.

[albert]

Several scenes from Terminator 1 (1984) and T2 (1991) are similarly portrayed in this movie:Sarah Connor shoots an M4 from the rear of a moving vehicle to evade a pursuing evil Terminator in a helicopter (T2 - Sarah shoots from a back of a SWAT van and is shot in the leg by the T-1000, Dark Fate - She shoots alongside the T-800 while taking off in the C-5).The team commandeers a station wagon for transportation in T2 and Dark Fate and the evil T-800 in T1.The evil Terminator mimicking a law enforcement officer and utilizing LE infrastructure to precisely locate its target (T2 - T-1000 impersonating an LAPD officer, Dark Fate - Rev-9 impersonating El Paso & Mexico City PD, US Border Patrol).The T-800 physically shields a Connor from the evil Terminator's gunfire (T2 - T-800 shields John from in the mall service hallway, Dark Fate - T-800 shields Sarah in the C-5's rear bay).Female heroine shotgunning a Terminator towards a steep drop off but runs out (T2 - Sarah shotguns the T-1000 near the molten metal vat, Dark Fate - Dani shotguns the Rev-9 near a lower level of the dam station).The Terminator is told to go faster in a slow-moving truck (T2 - John tells the T-800 to go faster in their commandeered Chevy S10, Dark Fate - Dani's brother tells Grace to go faster in their commandeered service F-150).

[elmer]

The first Terminator film in 16 years to be R rated after Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), the previous two films were rated PG-13. The fourth film, Terminator Salvation (2009) did receive on R rating for its Director's Cut when it was released on Blu-ray in 2009.

[jim]

According to producer James Cameron, there were some additional shots of John Connor having a brief conversation with Sarah, but these were cut because the de-aging visual effects were "not up to snuff" in those shots.

[gabriel]

James Cameron considers the film to be a direct sequel to his own films The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). He was not involved in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and Terminator Genisys (2015), so Terminator: Dark Fate disregards the events of these films, as well as the short-lived TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). In 2017, Cameron commented that while he was generally supportive of those films due to his close friendship with Arnold Schwarzenegger, he was ultimately unsatisfied with them, so he decided to produce a proper sequel himself. This means that Rise of the Machines, Salvation, Genisys and Sarah Connor Chronicles are being described as occurring in alternate timelines.

[mathew]

In preparing to reprise her role, Linda Hamilton had to do a full year of physical fitness training and a strict carbohydrate-free diet from May 2017 before filming began under the supervision of renowned fitness trainer Mackie Shilstone. Shilstone was known for his continuous research into fitness for aging athletes. Due to her age, Shilstone had ten people to assist him in supervising her, including his son Spencer (nutrition supplements), and five doctors comprising Dr. Brooks Emory (pulmonologist); Dr. Carl Lavie (cardiologist); Dr. Joe Mather (functional medicine); Dr. Field Ogden (orthopedist) and Dr. James Riser (chiropractor). The filmmakers wanted Hamilton to have an appearance of an aging seasoned pro league player reaching to the turn of coaching a rookie player.

[carl]

Shooting began in March 2018.

[richard]

In line with the other Terminator movies, the T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger loses an arm and an eye.

[nina]

The film ignores the events of the third, fourth and fifth installment in the series (i.e. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and Terminator Genisys (2015)). However, before writing, the scriptwriters watched through those installments and listed down the elements that were pitfalls, while some of those from the three that were not can be found in the story: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003): The notion that Judgment Day is inevitable, and can be merely postponed, as it is in humanity's nature to create its own demise. The presence of a hostile Terminator that consists of a solid part and a liquid part (the T-X in Rise, the Rev-9 in Dark Fate), and killing off the main antagonist with the hero's power source.Terminator Salvation (2009): An ally who is an enhanced human, who sacrifices a vital component to save the hero (Marcus Wright in Salvation, Grace in Dark Fate).Terminator Genisys (2015): Skynet succeeding in killing John Connor. Someone materializing on an overpass after time-traveling. The idea of luring the villainous Terminator into a 'killbox'. An aged T-800 who has humanized over time, and serves as an ally. A character who has knowledge of an alternate timeline (Kyle Reese in Genisys, Carl in Dark Fate).

[christina]

Casting agents were looking for an eighteen-year-old Mexican girl to play the role of the female protagonist, Dani Ramos. Natalia Reyes was cast as Dani, though she is actually Colombian and was 31 at that time she was cast.

[nora]

Carl's arc in the movie is redemption and sacrifice: After John's death, Carl sends Sarah text messages warning her about other Terminators and the Rev-9 which he ends each message "For John" and chooses to help Sarah and Grace protect Dani from the Rev-9 and sacrifices his life by destroying the Rev-9 with Grace's power core which his last words are "For John".

[fred]

It is impossible for the terminator to learn anything new, or to develop in any way, once it has been sent back in time. This was established in T2 when the terminator explains that when they are sent out on a mission, their CPU is set to read only, so they can no longer absorb new information. The only way around this is to remove the CPU from the terminators head, and switch the CPU back to learn, which was done in T2. This can not be done by the terminator itself, as removing the CPU de-activates the terminator.

[morris]

Brett Azar serves once again as a body double on which the face of a younger Arnold Schwarzenegger is recreated, after Terminator Genisys (2015).

[terry]

While at the beginning of the film Arnold Schwarzenegger's face is de-aged and superimposed on a stunt double, Arnold himself doesn't appear until over an hour into the film.