Terminator teases sixth instalment with all-female photo

A promotional image from the sixth film in the Terminator series shows actress Linda Hamilton back in her signature role as the indomitable Sarah Connor.

Hamilton is joined by Colombian actress Natalia Reyes and Canada’s Mackenzie Davis, star of recent release Tully.

Markings on Davis’s body seem to imply she is one of the futuristic androids around which the franchise revolves.

Arnold Schwarzenegger also appears in Tim Miller’s currently untitled film, due in cinemas in November 2019.

Reyes plays a new character called Dani Ramos, while Davis plays a character known only as Grace.

Hamilton, 61, appeared in the original Terminator film as a young woman whom Schwarzenegger’s relentless cyborg travels back in time to kill.

She played the character again in that film’s first sequel, which reconceived her as a gun-toting warrior determined to protect her teenage son from another murderous robot.

Strong women have been a recurring fixture of the science-fiction franchise, which has so far had all-male directors.

Come with us if you want to relive the series so far.

Released in 1984, James Cameron’s modestly budgeted film saw former bodybuilder Schwarzenegger play an implacable android whose human exterior masks a metal skeleton.

Part man, part machine and all business, he has been sent from the future to kill the woman whose unborn son will grow up to become the freedom fighter who brings about the destruction of the computer network that has taken over the world.

Sarah Connor, played by Hamilton, learns she is a target from Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), a resistance fighter who has been sent back in time by Sarah’s son John to be her guardian.

Kyle’s attempts to save Sarah’s life eventually cost him his own, though not before he has made her pregnant – making him the father of the very man who sent him to protect her.

Schwarzenegger’s robot has few lines in the film, though one of them – “I’ll be back” – became one of his most durable and oft-repeated catchphrases.

For many fans of the series, though, Kyle’s first line to Sarah – “Come with me if you want to live!” – is no less loved or memorable.

BBC