These plot details for Terminator: Genisys change everything plus new pics

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

When it comes to the first film in the new (and most likely PG-13 rated) Terminator trilogy, plot details were pretty thin aside from the fact that we would be revisiting events from the first film in 1984. Given that this a reboot/offshoot in the vein of the newest TREK films, we also know there would be a deviation at some point. If you've been wondering why Emilia Clarke hasn't been sporting Sarah Connor's awesome 80s hairstyle (I was actually looking forward to that), new plot details have emerged that explains that and a lot more.

Here's the new plot details according to Entertainment Weekly:

The beginning of Terminator: Genisys, 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 (Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (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 (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.

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 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.

There ya have it. I suppose they're headed in the direction that was achieved so well with JUDGMENT DAY, in that Sarah Connor has become the very thing she wants to destroy.  Ya know, except for the fact she's hanging out with an aged Terminator she lovingly refers to as "pops" every now again (cue serious look from Arnold). Director Alan Taylor staged some very exciting action set-pieces for THOR: THE DARK WORLD.  While I have no doubt that he can handle the action of TERMINATOR: GENISYS, the first two Terminator films are in a category all on their own.  I hope Taylor brings his A-game not only to sell the action, but the emotion of the story.  I'll reserve judgement day for when the trailer hits.

TERMINATOR: GENISYS is set to hit theaters on July 1, 2015.

What's that Terminator doing back there?!?  That's just the cutest.