10 Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways

3. Terminator: Dark Fate

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While the Terminator franchise is one that's continuously struggled to hit the heady heights of 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Rise of the Machines, Salvation, and Genisys all disappointing audiences - there was a genuine excitement ahead of Terminator: Dark Fate's release in 2019.

What was the cause of this excitement? Why, it was because director Tim Miller was getting the T2 gang back together!

Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 may have been part of Rise of the Machines and Genisys, but Dark Fate promised to bring back Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong as Sarah Connor and her son John. Sure, the John character may have been featured in all three post-T2 films, but that was without Furlong reprising his most famous role.

So, the prospect of Ed Furlong picking things back up as the saviour of mankind was a hugely intriguing one. What role would Furlong's John have to play? What had he been up to in the days since Terminator 2? Did he manage to fulfil his destiny as the person to halt Judgment Day and stop the rise of the machines?

To the disappointment of many, Terminator: Dark Fate's only use for Edward Furlong was as a "John Connor reference" for CGI purposes and to do one day's worth of motion capture work. That was because John's role in Dark Fate was merely to be featured in a 1998-set flashback sequence where the teenager is killed by a T-800 in the movie's surprising opening sequence.

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