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Schwarzenegger and Hamilton Are Back in More New ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Images
The folks over at Den of Geek have just revealed the cover (find it below) of their 2019 San Diego Comic-Con special edition magazine, which features an exclusive look at director Tim Miller‘s Terminator: Dark Fate. The issue will be distributed in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter throughout the duration of SDCC as well as online at denofgeek.com.
Den of Geek’s cover story on Dark Fate also features insights from Miller and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis and Gabriel Luna, along with a couple new images from the movie. In the James Cameron-produced film, Arnold is back as the T-800 and Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, the iconic duo teaming up with Davis’ character to save a young woman (Natalia Reyes) from a new Terminator (Luna). Miller describes the character Davis is playing as an “augment,” an enhanced human being, while also teasing Arnold’s role.
“This version of Arnold is something that Jim has been thinking about for a long time,” Miller told the outlet. “I think it’s a really great way for him to come back to the franchise. I understood the other movies and the way they handled him, but I didn’t want to do that again. I really thought that the way to do something unique for this film was to have Arnold’s backstory and the way he interacts with the rest of the characters be something we hadn’t seen from that character before… but I also think it has the expected amount of Arnold kicking ass.”
“I would say [this movie] is huge action-wise,” Schwarzenegger himself told Den of Geek. “I was very satisfied with the ideas and the big action that this movie has. It’s really wild.”
“I don’t feel like I’m changing the mythology,” Miller also noted in the interview. “I think it’s a continuation of the cause and effect that [James Cameron] set up in the other Terminator movies—which is simply if you make a change in the past, it will change the future. So you have to expect that what happened before, or the history that Sarah had been told of the future, was going to change. I don’t look at it as changing mythology. I look at it as the natural outcome of the set of rules that Jim established in the first two movies.”
Check out the new images below and read the full piece over on Den of Geek.
Paramount is releasing the new movie, a sequel to T2, on November 1st, 2019.
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Is No Fan of Generative AI: “Defeats the Purpose Entirely for Me”
There has been a lot of talk recently about filmmakers embracing generative AI as part of the filmmaking process, from Darren Aronofsky to Martin Scorsese. But what about filmmakers that are against the use of Gen AI for creative pursuits? You can count 20-year-old Backrooms director Kane Parsons among that group, which should give you some hope for the future.
In a new chat with The Australian, the self-taught young filmmaker makes it crystal clear that he won’t be using generative AI in any of his upcoming filmmaking projects.
“I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells the outlet. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“What interests me more is interrogating it artistically,” Parsons notes. “We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.”
He explains, “I’m interested in using that iconography in art – not using AI to make the art itself, but examining what it represents. I definitely want to explore it further in future projects.”
Kane Parsons also notes during the interview with The Australian, “… there’s so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening.”
Backrooms marks young prodigy Kane Parsons’ feature directorial debut, and it’s based on his own series of YouTube videos that were brought to life using Blender, the open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. So it’s no surprise that Parsons, who has hand-made his filmmaking career up to this point, isn’t buying into the hoopla around Generative AI.
His debut feature is the #1 movie in the world, so perhaps he’s onto something.
What’s next from Kane Parsons, you ask? Stay tuned…
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