Schwarzenegger reunites with Hamilton in Terminator
LOS ANGELES: Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton have reunited on the set of Terminator 6.
To mark Hamilton’s birthday, Schwarzenegger posted a photo of the two of them together in an apparent recreation of a photo taken during their time on Terminator 2.
The photo shows Hamilton resting her head on Schwarzenegger’s shoulder, with both grinning broadly.
Wrote Schwarzenegger: “Happy birthday to my dear friend Linda Hamilton. One of my favourite co- stars, a true badass, and a wonderful human being. I’m pumped to be back together again.”
Interest in the Terminator series has been reignited with the return of producer James Cameron.
Cameron’s return for Terminator 6 saw him conceive the story, along with David Ellison and Tim Miller. Cameron and Ellison are also serving as producers, and Miller (“Deadpool”) will direct.
Hamilton, who portrayed Sarah Connor in the original two fi lms, is reprising her role for this new movie. This was made possible by ignoring Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which killed the character off, along with the sequels which came after it.
Schwarzenegger is back in the role of a robotic time traveller.
Although Edward Furlong will not be on set to reprise his role as John Connor, his face will still be seen in the fi lm, superimposed on the face of body double Jude Collie. Also joining the cast are Diego Boneta, Natalia Reyes, and Gabriel Luna, and Brett Azar reprises his role from Genisys as a T- 800 stand-in. Despite the publicity surrounding Hamilton’s return to the series, the plot will mostly follow Boneta’s character Dani, a working woman who fi nds herself caught up in the war between man and machine.
Terminator 6 is tentatively slated to premiere on Nov 15 next year.