The Terminator franchise is getting a reboot of sorts with "Terminator: Genisys." In the "retconned" history presented here, Skynet tries to kill a pre-teen Sarah Connor. She is saved by a T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger that the production crew are calling "The Guardian." That single event has a ripple effect that irrevocably changes the timeline.
Some years later in 1984, Connor, raised by a T-800 that she calls "Pops," works to save Kyle Reese, who finds himself in a newly altered timeline. In the trailer we see the T-800 from the first Terminator emerge from time travel only to be attacked by the aged Guardian T-800.
This battle, according to sources of Coming Soon (via TheTerminatorFans.com), is going to be a full-on, knock-down-drag-'em-out brawl. I'm not familiar with the Terminator Fans site but the production company Skydance (the production company behind "Genisys") retweeted their post, which lends a good amount of credibility.
The sequence will take place at the Griffith Observatory and will be "used to full effect." Their source gives a little breakdown of what they've seen:
"The battle will be better than the T-800 and T-1000 from T2. The ground will break on the wrestling fight.
"In this particular sequence the young digitally enhanced T-800 is doing a forward lunge double fist punch and/or crushing the aged T-800's face with both its knuckles pile-driving into the real Arnold Schwarzenegger's metal skull, like something out of a wrestling match.
"The aged T-800 has its left arm locked under the T-800's right shoulder as if it is going to make a deadly move on the younger T-800. The sequence or choreography could change in the finished product but what we've seen looks good! The moves will be devastating and the battle will probably be one of the most spectacular scenes in the movie especially in the VFX department.
"The young T-800 is unclothed as he does this attack on the aged T-800, while the 3D model of the aged T-800 is wearing the clothing in the Trailer scene when he tells 'The Terminator' that he has been waiting for him... This is the equivalent of Tanks colliding, the machines are heavy. Battle damage is an obvious issue when Terminators fight."
The Guardian T-800 obviously comes out the victor, but will be heavily damaged. Connor and Reese make a time jump to the present day where they meet-up with the now white haired T-800.
I have to admit that does sound pretty cool. When I first heard some of the changes this new film was going to make to the well-established "Terminator" plotline I was rather skeptical. Now, I'm getting into it. The more I hear, the more I like.
"Terminator: Genisys" is slated to hit theaters on July 1, 2015.
