Entertainment Weekly offers a first look at Terminator: Genisys with Game of Throne's Emilia Clark and Doctor Who's Matt Smith!

Entertainment Weekly has just released the two covers for their next magazine issue and it features a first look at the upcoming film Terminator: Genisys. The covers feature Emilia Clark (Game of Thrones) as Sarah Connor, Jai Courtney (Spartacus) as Kyle Reese, Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) as John Connor, and Matt Smith (Doctor Who).

Film synopsis:

"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."

 Further plot points on the story. *Spoilers*

"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.”"

Wow. That is a pretty interesting twist! Fans of the original series may be able to rest calmly however as former Doctor Who star Matt Smith says:

"“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.”"

I have to admit that I was not excited about this film but I may want to check it out. If only for curiosity's sake. How do you think the story sounds?
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Source: Entertainment Weekly