Alan Taylor’s reboot will drop in 2015, kick off a trilogy

Oct 31, 2014 11:25 GMT  ·  By

The Alan Taylor-directed “Terminator: Genisys,” the reboot for the “Terminator” franchise but also a first in a planned trilogy, won’t be out in theaters until July 2015, but it’s already receiving a major promo boost in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

The trade publication has just released a few more photos from the film, aside from the two alternate covers we saw yesterday. You will find them, together with the covers, included in the gallery below.

Yes, you were not mistaken when you first saw the cover, the T-800 really is grinning! Either it’s having a blast at a private joke about mankind’s impending doom, or it really loves the attention.

Guns, guns, guns! Screaming!

Sadly, if you were expecting more revealing photos, you’re in for another disappointment: this is a film that doesn’t come out for another 9 months, so the studio can’t exactly reveal everything already. They would be left with nothing to tease fans with later on.

So the pics include glamor shots of leading actors brandishing big guns and occasionally making “screamy” faces. There is no context to attach to them, nothing telling is shown in the background, so we’re just supposed to infer from them that all these men and one woman will be tough and determined and brave and whatnot.

Again, releasing such teasing pictures is common fare with movie studios when dealing with a movie that’s not out for another while, but in the case of “Genisys,” it only adds to already built-up disappointment.

The pics are also too glossy for the world these characters supposedly come from, fans point out online. They’re basically all wearing brand new leather jackets, which can’t possibly be right in a universe in which humans have gone underground, from where they’re carrying out a rebellion against Skynet.

The bright side: photos come with more details on the film

There’s a bright side to this: the EW article that accompanies the photos includes a more detailed account of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role to the franchise that made him the biggest action movie star of his time.

We already know that his Terminator is now no longer a killer but is actually raising Sarah Connor as his adoptive daughter of some sorts (?!), and will be protecting her when the real killers do travel back in time to eliminate her, but now we also know that Schwarzenegger’s role is a “significant” one, not just a cameo.

As a treat for fans of the original trilogy, producers have also included a scene that will replicate one of the most iconic ones in James Cameron’s “The Terminator” from 1984.

“In what could be one of the most impressive technical feats yet, the filmmakers plan to re-create the memorable scene in the original ­Terminator when the T-800 lands at L.A.’s Griffith­Observatory, complete with Schwarzenegger’s 36-year-old face and ripped, naked body. To achieve that, the special-effects team has created a ‘synthespian,’ or synthetic thespian, using a body double plus scans of Schwarz­enegger’s face from the first film merged with what his face looks like now. The result: an entirely CG head of the Terminator circa 1984,” EW writes.

The other “Terminator” wannabe reboot, “Salvation,” also used CGI to youngify Arnold, but at the time, he wasn’t able to appear in the movie at all because he was still Governor of California. Let’s just hope that the CGI results will be better this time, because that Terminator was positively creepy.

“Terminator: Genisys” stars, besides Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Matt Smith, Jason Clarke and Jai Courtney. Director Taylor’s most recent blockbuster is “Thor: The Dark World.”

Terminator: Genisys in EW (6 Images)

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, as promised
Matt Smith, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney: the heroes of the Resistance against SkynetEmilia Clarke is Sarah Connor in “Terminator: Genisys”
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