Before we go any further, I just want to say that while I find the script leak from What Culture credible in the sense that I am sure this is a script that actually existed at one point, I don’t think this is what we’ll actually see when Terminator: Genisys hits screens. That said, potential spoilers and definite high comedy below.
Okay, first of all, this movie is just full of Terminators. There’s the T-800 and the T-1000, which we’ve already seen, plus the T-850, which is what Arnold technically was in Terminator 3, and the T-5000, who is made of nanobots. The T-5000 would seem to be the main bad guy, here, since, well, nanomachines can disassemble anything and you can’t kill them with ballistic weapons.
But that would be expensive! So instead, it’s a brainwashing bot that infects John Connor. In the first half of the movie, all the Terminators get taken off the board; apparently there is a scene where Kyle suddenly remembers his parents giving him an iPhone with a Cyberdyne operating system, before everybody gets dragged to 2017, thanks to Connor, who comes back in time to preserve Skynet. The movie finishes off with “Pops” killing John Connor and returning as a T-1000.
I have zero doubt this is a script that was written and paid for, and I also have zero doubt this will only vaguely resemble what we actually see. Oh, some of it’s turning up, although I’ll lay down money the inevitable traitor is Matt Smith because why cast him otherwise? Similarly, Kyle, Sarah, and “Pops” are all pulling a Back to the Future Part II because that will make future entries in the franchise a lot cheaper than making them ’80s period pieces. But this seems a little too goofy to be fully legit, and it also seems strange that the creative team would just get rid of all the Terminators in the first half when that’s what the audience pays to see.
That said, this uncomfortably reflects a bizarre rumor we heard earlier about this movie, so it may not be totally wrong. We’ll see what happens July 1st.
UPDATE: Due to a legal request, we’ve removed the link to What Culture.
