[VIDEO] Arnold's Terminator Is Back And This Time, He's Going Up Against Himself
The official trailer for the 5th Terminator movie has arrived, and it looks like it's going to blow the original canon out of the water.
By Samantha Khor — 05 Dec 2014, 09:13 AM — Updated about 10 years ago
20 years ago, the sci-fi phenomenon that is The Terminator put director James Cameron and fledgling actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Hollywood's map of stars
Three sequels and a TV series later, the Terminator franchise is all set for a revamp with the upcoming Terminator: Genisys
Though not expected to be either a commercial or critical success, The Terminator topped the American box office for two weeks and helped launch the film career of Cameron and solidify that of Schwarzenegger. The franchise has spawned three sequels - Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), *Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and Terminator Salvation - as well as TV series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Rest assured that the series' 5th installment is not a reboot of the original. Instead, the newly-dropped trailer hints at a new narrative direction with a complete turnaround of events as we know it
The year is 2029. John Connor (played by Jason Clarke), leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
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The trailer begins with a familiar landscape: John Connor (Jason Clarke) leads a resistance team in a battle against the evil artificial-intelligence system Skynet, who has launched an all-out nuclear war against the humans
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.
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As in the original film, John Connor sends his trusted lieutenant Kyle Reese (Divergent's Jai Courtney) back in time to protect his mother, Sarah Connor from a killer Terminator
But wait... Instead of the "scared and weak" Sarah Connor he expected to find, Sarah is an actual bad-a** who saves Kyle from the get-go. Suddenly, Kyle finds himself in a version of the past he's not prepared for. What gives?
Turns out, Sarah was orphaned at the age of 9 by a Terminator and since then, was raised by - wait for it, this is going to blow your mind - Schwarzenegger's T-800 Terminator 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.
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That's right. An Arnold vs. Arnold showdown is SO. ON. #SoExcited
The trailer also introduced us to the new and improved shapeshifting robot assassin T-1000, played by the cool and brilliantly stoic Lee Byung-hun
In his usual fashion, you can always expect T-800 to make good on his "I'll be back" promise
The first of three planned movies for the rebooted franchise, Terminator: Genisys will be released on 2 July 2015 in Malaysia
Directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World), Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his return to the series for the 4th time alongside new cast members Emilia Clarke (*Game of Thrones) as Sarah Connor, Jai Courtney (Divergent), Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Lee Byung-hun (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) and Matt Smith (Doctor Who).
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