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T-1000 Actor Robert Patrick Would Return to ‘Terminator’ Franchise
James Cameron has slowly been trickling out news about the next Terminator film, which will ignite a brand new trilogy. Deadpool‘s Tim Miller is directing, with both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton returning to their franchise roles. These reveals only left me with more questions, mainly who else would make an appearance? While I’m praying to the film gods that we’ll see Edward Furlong return as John Connor, another T2 star is hoping to make his return.
T-1000 actor Robert Patrick tells MovieWeb that he’d love to join the growing cast of Terminator 6.
“Absolutely! Anybody [asks] me to do anything, return anywhere, I am there.”
This is by no means confirmation that he will even be asked to join the new trilogy, only that he’s open to a return if Cameron and Miller were to have him.
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Paramount next Terminator film, which doesn’t yet have a title, will arrive on July 26, 2019.
The plan? To get the franchise back on track and launch a whole new trilogy that’ll mix iconic characters from the past with brand new ones.
A writers room for the film is currently assembled with David Goyer, Charles Eglee, Josh Friedman and Justin Rhodes and producer David Ellison, as well as Cameron.
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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