'Terminator: Genisys' Trailer: Arnie Fights Arnie in a Battle for the Ages
As promised, the Terminator is back. The first trailer for Terminator: Genisys premiered online on Thursday, and we got our first full look at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the role he was seemingly born to play: The mayhem-causing title cyborg.
The trailer introduces us to Genisys’s newly scrambled timeline, one that sounds awfully familiar at first, as future world rabble-rouser John Connor (played here by Zero Dark Thirty star Jason Clarke) sends his lieutenant Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to protect his mother Sarah (Emilia Clarke) from a SkyNet plot. Reese arrives expecting to find the fragile and fearful Sarah of the first movie, only to be rescued by an already bad-ass mother. “Come with me if you want to live!” she yells, by way of a very familiar introduction.
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This version of Sarah has been raised by her protector Terminator (Schwarzenegger) with visions of future warfare already very much on her mind. We get a couple quick looks at an older Arnold as the papa cyborg…
…including one where he assassinates a ripped younger version of himself who was sent to kill Sarah in the first place:
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Terminator: Genisys, directed by Thor: The Dark World’s Alan Taylor, is the fifth film in the franchise that began 30 years ago with James Cameron’s underdog action classic. Cameron and Schwarzenegger reunited for 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but Cameron left the franchise for 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and they were both missing from the 2009 Christian Bale-starring sequel Terminator Salvation. (A disappointment both critically and commercially, Salvation is perhaps best remembered for Bale’s on-set screaming fit.) Will Genisys give the Terminator series new life when it hits theaters next July? If the franchise has taught us anything, it’s to never assume Arnold’s cyborg is out of commission.
