Huge breaking news out of the ongoing San Diego Comic-Con where James Cameron revealed that Edward Furlong will be returning as John Connor in Paramount’s forthcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, which he produced and Deadpool‘s Tim Miller directs.
This is such incredibly massive news considering the long-hyped return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, not to mention the fact that Dark Fate takes place after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, retconning all other sequels. How could the filmmakers continue the Connor story without the leader of the resistance?!
Up until this point we had expected to see a CGI stand-in as a young John Connor. As I previously reported last June, photos that leaked from the set revealed the possible return of a young John Connor, if only by a casting double.
The photo making the rounds showed young actor, Jude Collie, who is alleged to be playing a young John Connor in the Tim Miller-directed Terminator. When the photo was shared on socials, it declared the actor as a CGI stand-in, which means it’s quite possible that we’ll also be seeing Edward Furlong‘s young face in the film.
“I think the best way to think about Terminator: Dark Fate is to think about it as a direct sequel to Terminator 2, the third film in a series, if you will,” producer James Cameron had previously explained before adding, “We’ll be continuing with Sarah’s story, John’s story, and the T-800 returns — a different T-800 with a very different role to play than what we’ve seen before.”
John Connor was a huge part of the first Terminator in that, from the future, he sent Kyle Reese back in time to save Sarah Connor, his mother, from a Terminator programmed to kill her and prevent his birth. Cameron introduced Furlong’s John Connor in Judgment Day, who would team with his mother to stop Skynet and the robot uprising for good. Apparently, something went wrong in this new future.
Terminator: Dark Fate opens November 1st.
