After seeing Entertainment Weekly’s Terminator: Genisys magazine covers teasing an upcoming set report on the movie; I was left in disbelief and actually raised my hand to my face and left it there for say a minute in a state of pure shock of what I was viewing.
Terminator Salvation had better magazine covers than these and that’s saying something.
The pictures look below par and amateur-ish and these are supposed to introduce us to the new actors playing the roles portrayed by actors, actors that owned and solidified these characters as canon to us. This isn’t good enough for hardcore fans trapped in a pit of Terminator: Starvation. The wait for Terminator: Genisys isn’t fun, it’s like waiting for bad news on a daily basis. The trailer leak was half interesting, it was much more fun and interesting than this.
What can I say positively about the photos? At least it’s something. Though these might not be official studio images, just photos taken and manipulated by EW themselves… but the studio must have Okay-ed them. It’s not that the quality is lacking,- they are high resolution images but these are not the type of images I was hoping for as a long term fan of the series.
Collector’s cover 1/2 Feat. Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney:
Sarah Connor rides a Terminator style Harley Davidson while Jai Courtney pulls Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face from the first movie. By this image alone I feel a sense of deflation not only for myself but for Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and the Terminator Mythos as a whole. It just looks so… …
Emilia Clarke in leathers… not fully sold… Jai Courtney wearing a familiar outfit but, again, I’m not sold yet.
Collector’s cover 2/2 Feat. Jason Clarke and Matt Smith:
Jason Clarke will play John Connor… not hard to guess with that Facial Scar. The military clothing on both actors reminds me of Aliens. I was hoping for the outfits from the original The Terminator movie & what is it with those future guns… ? They look really bad and look like nothing like the artillery available to the Resistance in the original world we saw.
I hate the CGI Endoskeleton, the smile has become like the joker’s. Unrealistic to the hilt; with a bright white pearly-toothed grin and a friendlier exterior as usual, with each new terminator movie by the end of the new trilogy the endoskeleton will have a grin that will reach the machine’s forehead.
Terminator: Genisys is rewriting the history of Terminator and we are literally supposed to accept what we are to be given and by these images alone I am not interested. Of course I’d watch it but it doesn’t mean I have to like it- if the movie breaks too many rules for me, because once the boundaries have been passed for me in the wrong ways it becomes a different product and not what I originally got into, not the same actors who won me over the first time around, big changes ahead. Unimaginable changes, perhaps impossible to handle, it could take years to get over. I actually am beginning to sound like Dr. Silberman when he had his pointless cameo in Terminator 3.
They also tease some of the real plot and whoa!
They also report the following:
“The Terminator is having a bad day. It’s a muggy July afternoon in New Orleans—the temperature is loitering in the triple digits—and Arnold Schwarzenegger is inside a giant warehouse on the grounds of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. Suited up in a black leather jacket with green-painted latex obscuring most of the right side of his face, he is again playing the indelible robot that solidified his place in Hollywood some 30 years ago. So far today the former governor of California has been stepped on and forced to crawl on the ground, and now, as he gasps for breath fighting his opponent, he’s about to get transported to a different time—which, if you know anything about Terminator mythology, is a very bad thing. Especially if your metal endoskeleton is showing.”
CGI Battle Damage Arnold then….
“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.”
So far we are in what seems like the original timeline… but wait that is all going to change when Kyle goes back in time to an alternative reality…
“The filmmakers’ time-twisty plan to reconnect fans to what made those first two movies so cool, while tweaking audience expectations. “It’s like going on tour again if you’re Pink Floyd—the audience always wants to hear some of the old songs,” says Matt Smith, the former Doctor Who star who plays a close ally of John Connor. “There are enough nods to the past that people will feel satisfied.” “
More homages then…
“Twist No. 1? Sarah Connor isn’t the innocent she was when Linda Hamilton first sported feathered hair and acid-washed jeans in the role. Nor is she Hamilton’s steely zero body-fat warrior in 1991’s T2. Rather, the mother of humanity’s messiah was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9. Since then, she’s been raised by (brace yourself) Schwarzenegger’s Terminator—an older T-800 she calls “Pops”—who is programmed to guard rather than to kill. As a result, Sarah is a highly trained antisocial recluse who’s great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion.
“Since she was 9 years old, she has been told everything that was supposed to happen,” says Ellison. “But Sarah fundamentally rejects that destiny. She says, ‘That’s not what I want to do.’ It’s her decision that drives the story in a very different direction.” “
So there you have it… it’s a completely new direction, a new take.
I am not happy Arnold will be called “Pops” I hate it. We did the whole surrogate Father thing in Terminator 2.
So what do you think about this news?