We could post the images leaked but then we would be asked to remove this entire post from the internet while other sites freely post the images and discuss it with apparently no issues. This is why you will find no Terminator: Genisys images on this site until this date.
Spoilet Alert:
So the trailer is on its way and we will follow this up with 2 more Genisys stories (in coming hours).
The images we saw from the leaked trailer were a series of images leaked via Twitter. Visual Effects are in the early stages in these images and are Pre-Visual Effects (early stages of sequence planning) basically the core of the effects without full rendering and textures applied.
It starts with Kyle and Connor on the run, images of global destruction. Shot of the original T-800 arriving. Over his shoulder; after interacting with the punks, an old T-800 in full leather get-up approaches the young T-800 and gives him warning/threat.
The next scene people are being killed, a door is kicked in. “Sarah Connor!?”
We cut to Flying HK’s; flying over a burning Hollywood sign as they destroy LA and a T-1000 smashes through glass. Sarah and Kyle run down a corridor, she turns to unload a machine gun at a Terminator. We now see an explosion.
The T-1000 (Lee Byung-hun) turns to liquid metal and spills through smashed windscreen on car into the passenger seat to take control of said car. Connor screams. A Hero shot of Arnold looking at his younger bad self.
Sarah and the T-800 are in a helicopter… Arnold Schwarzenegger’s old T-800 delivers the line “I’ll be back”, she looks confused before he jumps out the helicopter.
The score kicks in and the title Terminator: Genisys appears on the screen.
Sarah Connor:
We see Emilia in Sarah’s costume from T2 (black vest military style) one image is in a dark tunnel/corridor looking back as Kyle Reese stands in the darkness behind her. Another shot in a helicopter looking as what is supposedly Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A shot of her shooting a gun but the gun seems censored… an RPG? shoulder mounted projectile… or a CGI future weapon? who knows with the time travel involved in this movie.
T-800:
T-800 arrives at Griffith Observatory, either a recreation of the arrival 100% accurate to The Terminator- 1984 possibly original scene used- if not; incredible CGI Arnold. Another shot shows what looks like an Aged Terminator Arnold doing the same walk over to Arnold after he attacks the punks as Arnold did in T1 but fully clothed in leathers. Apparently this will lead to a threat/attack between the two rival Terminator Units.
T-1000:
T-1000 spills through a windshield of a car, we reported on this a while ago. (Pre Visual state).
HK Centurion (Hunter Killer Unit):
For the first time ever a HK Centurion will grace the big-screen. A Cameron and Steve Burg creation, the Centurion is a giant crab/crustacean-like Terminator Unit which is a big massive beast (future war sequence pre-visual effects).
You may remember us actively demanding a Centurion appear in Terminator 5- this also appeared in our Terminator 5 Manifesto from 2011… well, it looks like it’s happening.
Flying HK’s:
Flying over a burning Hollywood sign. An ironic joke also played out in the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines video game which featured levels in a decimated Hollywood. The flying HK’s again look like a new design like an almost merge of Salvation and Terminator 3… why do they keep redesigning the Flying HK? We prefer the original design. Why change something that worked fine.
Our Judgment:
The trailer images look dark and gritty but this is because they’re low-res images and obviously the film hasn’t been treated and digitally perfected for audiences. For a film which said it would be fresh and different; here we are again with homages. T2 homage, T1 homage, even Arnold jumping out a helicopter after saying I’ll be back is a double homage to the movies and even Salvation (Bale jumping out a flying vehicle). Paying homage and harking back to previous installments; can that really be classed as stand-alone? Hmmm…
We can’t criticize the CGI because it isn’t finished.
Overall we can’t really say anything about this news- it could have been worse news or… better news, and if they’d have just released the trailer already this leak wouldn’t have had time to take place.
G@BRIELGR@Y released these images, it is unknown at this time if they are authentic or a goddamn well executed yet elaborate hoax,- but if feels and looks real to us.
Apparently the trailer will air December so maybe this isn’t attached to Intersteller or the game plan has changed.
G@BRIELGR@Y also leaked more information in a series of tweets:
Okay I’m getting far too many questions and requests, I’ll tweet a more detailed description of the #TerminatorGenisys trailer in a moment.
Okay bear with me, the teaser for #TerminatorGenisys begins with a black screen. Industrial sounds and familiar music (Brad Fidel) …
.. VO: “There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” Loud bwaaarrgghhh noise. Smash cut. Kyle, Connor running down a dark corridor…
.. A huge explosion, a quick shot of a HK centurion looming over a battlefield shooting up the battleground. A building shatters. Hard cut.
…Electricity sparks, Arnold 1984 uncoils and stands up. Camera wrap around. Over his shoulder, Arnold (grey hair approaches from distance)
… He’s holding a shotgun. Raises it and points it at 1984’s Arnold’s face. Screen goes black. Loud signature Terminator industrial beats.
…Shot of Kyle and Connor running down corridor, Kyle falls on his back and shoots an assault rifle. Connor turns shoots (something)…
…Vista of mass destruction in LA, people being shot by something off camera. Cut to black, Door gets kicked in. Arnold: “Sarah Connor.”
…Screen goes dark again. Smash cut a fleet of HK’s rise over a destroyed LA, a silver T1000 smashes through a large plate of glass.
… A T1000 with motorcycle helmet smashes a car windscreen and begins leaking through it… A shot of Sarah Connor screaming. Goes black.
…More music, then fade in Older Arnold opposite his younger naked self. He looks him over raises shotgun. Screen goes dark shot rings out.
The older T800 and Sarah Connor are in a chopper, she looks panicked, he turns to her and says. “I’ll” be back.” Then jumps out…
… Loud music cue, (brad fidel) Screen goes dark. #TerminatorGenisys fades onto screen. Music swells.
I’ve left a little out here and there, but that’s a more detailed gist. It’s pretty cool, and only one of a number under consideration.
This is the music used in the #TerminatorGenisys teaser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNXq5DUZnk … With flourishes of course.
They also use an Eurythmics song too, a haunting cover of Sweet Dreams in one of the variants, strangely enough. Yes seriously!
I promise you, Arnold is still very much a badass; age be dammed.