TERMINATOR: GENYSIS Images: First Look at Terminator Reset

The first images for "Terminator: Genysis" have been released (via Entertainment Weekly), giving us a long-awaited first look at the cast of the upcoming "reset". Yeah, that's what they're calling it. Not a reboot, nor a sequel, but a "reset". The film will apparently use the original film as a foundation, as Kyle Reese will indeed travel back to 1984, but things won't play out the same way as they did in James Cameron's classic, leading to an alternate timeline. As unnecessary as that might sound it's not entirely a bad idea, I just fear it's going to be poorly executed. Anyway, they've been trying to get another Terminator movie off the ground since 2009, so I suppose they were getting desperate. After the jump you can view all the images released by EW along with some interviews that will offer more information about the plot and characters. The film stars Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Matt Smith, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi and Byung Hun Lee.

"Terminator: Genysis" opens in theaters on July 1, 2015.

Check out the images and interviews after the jump.

"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 (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Divergent‘s Jai Courtney) is his loyal soldier, raised in the ruins of postapocalyptic California. As in the original film, Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor’s mother, Sarah, from a Terminator programmed to kill her so she won’t ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on the other side is nothing like what he expected. There are enough nods to the past that people will feel satisfied."

"[Arnold Schwarzenegger] I knew eventually that another Terminator was going to get made. People always have to go through that painful experience of doing a sequel, or something like that, without me.

"[Clarke on having a Terminator for a parent] Oh, she’s just a normal girl growing up in a world with a Terminator for a dad. What was her first date like? Did he kill many of the dates she brought home?""

"[Courtney on his experience with the movie] I had never fallen in love on screen before. It was interesting to do that, especially when you’ve got a backdrop of the future and the past and all this other s - - -: endoskeleton, robots."

"[Producer David Ellison] Skynet no longer has to break down our front door because we line up in front of Apple stores to invite it in. We’re constantly giving away our privacy.

[On using scans of Schwarzenegger's face and body from 1984] It’s the holy grail of visual effects. You create a walking, breathing human that doesn’t exist.

[Regarding the villain] Part of the challenge is to dazzle people with something they haven’t seen before. There are elements in our main villain that are straining the capacities of our brilliant visual-effects people. So that’s a good sign.

"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 (brace yourself) 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. Since she was 9 years old, she has been told everything that was supposed to happen. But Sarah fundamentally rejects that destiny. She says, ‘That’s not what I want to do.’ It’s her decision that drives the story in a very different direction."

"[Jason Clarke on doing the stunts] You have to be physically on top of [these stunts]. If you get it wrong, it’s a two-, three-hour reset. You’re shooting at night. Trying to beat the sun coming up. There are a lot of pressures on these big films. I landed right in the middle of Arnold in one scene, with my boots banging down on the ground. I could have broken the dude."

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