The fifth installment of the “Terminator” movie franchise, officially titled “Terminator: Genisys” will play a lot with time travel as the film’s plot is basically anchored on the first two movies in the franchise, where Arnold Schwarzenegger happens to be the star as the T-800 cyborg.
While initial reports cited that “Terminator: Genisys” will be a reboot of the Terminator movie series, insiders in the production of the current movie says that it is not true.
Apparently, “Terminator:Genisys” will just rewind the first two films and will make use of a back and forth plot through the help of time travel scenes, reports Enstarz.
The site also added that the plotline of the upcoming Terminator movie will be based more on the second movie in the series titled “Terminator: Judgment Day.”
A follow-through with a twist
Due to hit theaters on July 1, 2015, “Terminator: Genisys” will once again revolve on the storyline about John Connor and the resistance’s battle against the Skynet and its army or cyborgs, androids and robots.
Since, Connor is destined to defeat the artificial intelligence nemesis, Skynet sends a T-800 to go back in time and kill the young Sarah Connor to prevent her from giving birth to John Connor.
But unlike the first two Terminator movies where Sarah Connor and a young John Connor was on the run against the T-800, the new Sarah in “Terminator: Genisys” is already aware of her destiny of being the mother of the son who can save the world in the future from the annihilation of Skynet.
The twist in this follow-through from the first two “Terminator” movies is that Sarah already knows her future when she was as young as nine years old because an older T-800, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, would be raising her.
So from a destructive T-800, in the first two movies in the series, Arnold Schwarzenegger will be a good T-800 this time again. He was bad and nasty in the first film but became a good cyborg in the second film.
Two T-800s
Schwarzenegger also disclosed some details about the film in December by saying that there will be two T-800 cyborgs in “Terminator: Genisys.” The first is a younger one which will be controlled by Skynet and the other is an older version (that would be him obviously) which will be reprogrammed to be a good cyborg.
Famous fitness trainer turned actor Aaron V. Williamson will be playing the younger T-800, who will be the main nemesis in the film.
Emilia Clarke shall play the role of Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke will play the role of John Connor, and Jai Courtney will play the role of Kyle Reese.
Kyle Reese is the loyal soldier of John Connor in the resistance. Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor’s mother from a Terminator programmed to kill her so that she won’t ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on his travel back in time is nothing like he expected.