In 1983 James Cameron was directing a movie he had co-wrote with William Wisher Jr. and co-produced with Gale Anne Hurd. The movie, inspired by a nightmare he experienced years before when suffering with a fever, would become the movie that would launch his career as one of Hollywoods most lucrative and creative directors - The Terminator. A mere seven years later, Cameron, Wisher Jr. and Hurd returned to locations and sets in Los Angeles to film what would become one of the most successful sequels of all time - Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a cult classic still held in high regard not only by sci-fi fans, but by general movie goers and critics alike.
This (above) commonly used image on other sites is NOT the movies official title card - the font used for "GENESIS" is sourced from the video-game series Gears of War, which is copyright of Microsoft Game Studios!
Despite ascertations since, that he had only envisioned the franchise as a two film venture, creator and previous director James Cameron had attempted to write a third instalment throughout the nineties, but was unable to unravel the many paradoxes he had previously created. 12 years would pass after the release of the second movie before director Jonathan Mostow and writers Tedi Sarafian, John Brancato and Michael Ferris devised how to continue the franchise while unravelling some of the paradoxes Cameron had created with the release of 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
The last movie in the Terminator Franchise was 2009's Terminator Salvation, directed by McG, and again written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris. The movie tenatively stepped into the early post-apocalyptic conflicts against the machines, set before the iconic conflict known as the future war previously seen in the opening moments of the previous instalments. A troubled production led to the intended plan of a future war trilogy to be abolished before, after many false starts, Megan and David Ellison teamed up with Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor and an almost entirely new cast to begin work on Terminator: Genesis - a proposed semi-reboot/sequel that is reported to criss cross between key moments of the first two instalments, branching off into an alternate timeline.
So far we can confirm that the movie will feature at least one future war sequence, at some point franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger will return in his trademark leathers from the second and third instalments, and that, reportedly, G.I. Joe Reataliations Byung-Hun Lee may be playing a T-1000. Now we can add these pictures, courtesy of SalonDelmal, to that list...
We presume this incarnation of Arnolds character is the new, older T-800, but is the actor with his back to camera really Jason Clarke as John Connor? And why are Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) and Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) wearing blue scrubs?
