Report On 12 Minutes Of Terminator: Genisys Footage

SPOILERS are ahead.

We are getting pretty damned close to the release of the next Terminator movie, “Terminator: Genisys”.  And recently at CinemaCon, Arnold Schwarzenegger presented a cut from the movie to an audience.

Website i09 has a description of the 12 minutes of footage.  Without further ado, here is what they said.

The footage jumped off by re-setting Judgement Day. Again. Not entirely sure this is something that the audience really needs to have explained all over again, but sure OK. A voiceover by Kyle Reese (now played by Jai Courtney) sets the stage. He laments that people used to tell “stories of how the world once was green,” while a kid looks out the window of an passenger plane while missiles launch across the sky. This is Judgement Day.

Cut to the aftermath. San Francisco is destroyed — all that’s left is the ruins of the Golden Gate Bridge. The voice over informs us all that millions perished in the nuclear fire that burned the globe. Another cut, and we’re even further into the Terminator future, looking at the world from a young Kyle Reese’s perspective. He’s younger than in Terminator Salvation, maybe 7 or 8 — but you can completely disregard Terminator Salvation, because that’s what Terminator Genisys is also doing.

Super-young Kyle Reese is running through his post-apocalyptic world, where the struggle is real. Cut to Reese’s POV looking into a shining face of hope — it’s Jason Clarke as futuristic John Connor. The new John Connor has an outstretched hand, and picks up Kyle Reese. And now we’re in the future, where John Connor and adult Kyle Reese (Courtney) are fighting the machines. The world is dark, and Connor is lecturing his troops from a futuristic compound surrounded by a red, laser fence. He’s giving them the last fight-type speech, because they are at war. CG Hunter-Killers take flight and blast Connor’s troops. Meanwhile Skynet readies a Terminator bot (the original Arnold Schwarzenegger T-800 from 1984) who steps into a time machine and jettisons off to the past.

The rest of their report and their reactions can be read here, at the full article.  It should be noted that this scene is picked from one of the better parts of the movie, from what I recall of the script, which is awful.