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Linda Hamilton Is Returning To Kick Ass In Next “Terminator” Sequel, But It's Being Written By A Room Full Of Dudes

One of sci-fi's biggest lesbian icons is back after 25 years.

It's not surprising that another Terminator movie is on it's way, but this one won't just see the return of director James Cameron and franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger—the OG Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton, is back, too.

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Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor

Hamilton, now 60, debuted in the first Terminator film in 1984 and returned as a buff bad-ass in 1991's Judgement Day. She and Cameron were a couple in the 1990s, and while they didn't have the most amicable split—she won a $50 million divorce settlement in 1999—they seem to be putting any past acrimony behind them.

"As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then, it’s going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she’s become return," Cameron said at a recent event. "There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys, but there isn’t an example of that for women.”

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Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor

Coming from Paramount Pictures and Skydance, the reboot will reportedly hearken back to plot of T2, ignoring Emilia Clarke's version of Connor. Cameron said producers are also searching for an "18-something woman" to be the centerpiece of the new film, which will see him back as producer and Deadpool's Tim Miller as director.

"We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present," Cameron added. "There will be mostly new characters, but we'll have Arnold and Linda’s characters to anchor it."

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HOLLYWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 15: Director James Cameron attends the American Cinematheque 30th Anniversary Screening Of "The Terminator" Q+A at the Egyptian Theatre on October 15, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

The blockbuster filmmaker came under fire recently for comments he made about Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, calling "the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing" for the summer smash "misguided." (Ironically, Wonder Woman's mammoth success probably fueled Hamilton's return to the Terminator franchise.)

"She’s an objectified icon," he told The Guardian of the Amazon princess. "It’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing!”

Jenkins pushed back on Twitter, writing, “James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising... Though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman... if women have to always be hard, tough, and troubled to be strong, and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far."

What fans loved about Sarah Connor was her transformation from a meek waitress who needed rescuing into a smart and strong woman who took care of herself, her son, and, well, all of humanity.

She was criminally killed off-screen in 2003's Rise of the Machines. Hopefully Sarah will get more respect this time around, but with Cameron and Miller hiring an all-male team of writers—David Goyer (The Blade), Charles Eglee (Dark Angel), Josh Friedman (The Sarah Connor Chronicles), and Justin Rhodes (Green Lantern Corps)—we're not so sure.

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