Whether or not Terminator 4 will ever actually happen is still sort of a mystery, but one thing is nearly for certain: If it does, Claire Danes won’t be in it.
She played the girlfriend of grown up John Connor in Terminator 3, and when the film ended she was trapped with him in an underground bunker while Skynet wiped out everyone else on Earth. If T4 happens, it’ll almost certainly pick up where T3 left off, but Danes recently told MTV it’ll do it without her.
In fact, she sounds like she wasn’t entirely happy with being in Terminator 3 to begin with. She says, “I felt sort of kidnapped by the production.” When asked point blank of she’d be in Terminator 4, her response was “I don’t think so.” That seems pretty clear to me.
It’s also kind of disappointing. I really liked Terminator 3, the movie never gets enough credit. She was a big part of why it worked so well, and I’d love to see what happens when she crawls out of that bunker with John Connor. Now it seems we’ll have to watch some other, almost certainly inferior (because that’s what always happens when a role gets recast after the fact), actress pretend to be Kate Brewster.
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Not only would be interesting to see Kate Brewster crawl out of that bunker in the sequel, but the makers of T3 pretty much GUARANTEED that she had to. If you remember, the Terminator tells John and Kate that she's the one who sent him back in time this go-around, because eventually John gets killed in the future, and - the Terminator implies - she takes over the resistance.
I think that, if T4 ever happens, they'll either set it far into the war years or they'll completely mangle continuity issues to make their own story work. There are simply not enough of the original talent - no Sarah, no T-800, no original John or John II, no Kate - coming back to the series to make real continuity possible.
Honestly, when they sign these actors up why can't they sort out a sequel contract there and then. It would have been obvious from the script that she'd be needed for the next movie.
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Whether or not Terminator 4 will ever actually happen is still sort of a mystery, but one thing is nearly for certain: If it does, Claire Danes won’t be in it.
August 22nd, 2007 at 13:27
Not only would be interesting to see Kate Brewster crawl out of that bunker in the sequel, but the makers of T3 pretty much GUARANTEED that she had to. If you remember, the Terminator tells John and Kate that she's the one who sent him back in time this go-around, because eventually John gets killed in the future, and - the Terminator implies - she takes over the resistance.
I think that, if T4 ever happens, they'll either set it far into the war years or they'll completely mangle continuity issues to make their own story work. There are simply not enough of the original talent - no Sarah, no T-800, no original John or John II, no Kate - coming back to the series to make real continuity possible.