Entertainment Weekly has been rolling out their summer movie previews all day and their latest one is for Skydance's upcoming sci-fi sequel Terminator: Genisys! A new still featuring star Emilia Clarke (Game Of Thrones) was released along with a few new plot details.
The fifth installment in the long-running time-travel saga is set to feature a considerably different John Connor than the one we've seen three times before. Jason Clarke (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes), the latest actor to portray the iconic Terminator character described his potentially less than heroic iteration of the character: "The script expands on our preconceived notions of who John Connor is, so I knew I couldn’t just show up and lay down some hard military guy. There’s a lot more going on than that.”
It was also revealed that the film is set to jump through the years 1984, 2017, and 2029. Check out a new still of the new Sarah Connor, Emilia Clarke, below as well as a previously seen still of Clarke in hi-res.
The beginning of Terminator: Genisys, the first of three planned films that Paramount hopes will relaunch the beloved sci-fi franchise, is set in 2029, when the Future War is raging and a group of human rebels has the evil artificial-intelligence system Skynet on the ropes. John Connor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Divergent‘s Jai Courtney) is his loyal soldier, raised in the ruins of post apocalyptic California. As in the original film, Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor’s mother, Sarah (Game of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator programmed to kill her so that she won’t ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on the other side is nothing like he expected.
Terminator: Genisys will feature:
Director: Alan Taylor
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the original T-800
Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor
Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese
Jason Clarke as John Connor
J.K. Simmons as Detective O'Brien
Matt Smith as Tim/T-5000
Lee Byung-hun as the T-1000
Courtney B. Vance as Miles Dyson
Dayo Okeniyi as Danny Dyson
Gregory Alan Williams as Detective Harding
Sandrine Holt in an unspecified role
Douglas Smith in an unspecified role
Aaron V. Williamson as young T-800
Nolan Gross as Skynet
Terminator: Genisys resets the future July 1, 2015
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