The first two Terminator films, of course directed by James Cameron, kicked off the franchise with an “R” rating, and 2003’s Rise of the Machines continued that adult-oriented approach. But the franchise returned with a PG-13 rating with the release of Terminator Salvation in 2009, and 2015’s Terminator Genisys was also released with that watered down PG-13 rating.
As promised, Deadpool director Tim Miller‘s Terminator: Dark Fate will be the first film in the franchise since 2003 to be released with an “R” rating, which it was granted this week!
Dark Fate has officially been rated “R” for “violence throughout, language and brief nudity.”
“I am so delighted,” Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said when talking about Dark Fate‘s rated “R” approach. “I was sick and tired with the last time, when the studio decided to make it a PG-13 rating just because they thought there more dollars in there. That’s not Terminator.”
He continued, “I was so angry about them trying to cut out the blood and gore. In this movie, we have the gore…we have the blood – I’m not even going to talk about what I do in this movie – Gabriel literally cuts people to shreds. There’s blood, there’s gore, there’s guts, you can see the heart being ripped out.”
In Dark Fate, “Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future.”
Cast includes Natalia Reyes as Dani, Gabriel Luna as the Rev-9, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Mackenzie Davis as Grace.
Paramount is releasing Tim Miller‘s sequel to T2 on November 1st, 2019.
