Terminator: Dark Fate Is All About Mackenzie Davis and Linda Hamilton

The latest installment of the franchise is all about how women will save the world.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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November 01 2019 10:14 AM EST

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The latest installment in the Terminator franchise is all about the women! In Terminator: Dark Fate, in theaters Friday, Mackenzie Davis (Black Mirror: San Junipero, Halt and Catch Fire) as Grace and Natalia Reyes as Dani, join Linda Hamilton's iconic Sarah Connor in saving humanity from the machines and itself.

Grace, an enhanced human, arrives from the future to save Dani, whose mission in the future eventually reveals itself. Faced with a virtually unstoppable terminator Rev 9 (Gabriel Luna), Sarah Connor appears on the scene in the knick of time. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his role as the T-800, but the movie is ultimately a feminist treatise on women running the world. It also manages to take some shots at Donald Trump's America with a portion of the action revolving around immigrants in an ICE detention center on the U.S./Mexico border.

"Sarah Connor is important to the history of cinema and action, and not just because she's a woman," Davis says in the production notes for the film. "She's also a cool evolution of a human being. I was really excited to be a part of that lineage and team up with the original Sarah Connor, seeing her age into her 60s and learning who this woman is now. It's unusual to see a woman have the arc of her life portrayed on screen and I just was excited to be a part of it."