If you hate spoilers, better not continue on reading this story as you will be extremely disappointed if you find out what the twist in the plot of the upcoming Terminator Genisys movie is. In a move that will also baffle the most ardent fan of the Terminator franchise, the producers behind the movie allowed a big revelation in the "Payoff" trailer. It is a big gamble, perhaps designed to ensure that people will make a beeline for the theatres when the movie gets released this summer.
The human resistance to the Skynet and its robot terminators is led by John Connor. In the first Terminator movie, to remove John O'Connor from the equation and effectively ending the resistance is to send a T-800 (in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger) into the past and kill John Connor's mother, Sarah. Eliminating Sarah will lead to John Connor not being born and thus the future resistance will not have him as the leader. But the resistance sent Kyle Reese to protect Sarah and successfully stopping the T-800. The resistance continues in the future under John Connor's leadership.
In Terminator Genisys, the same scenario takes place, but the past have changed. But instead of a T800 sent to assassinate Sarah Connor, a T-1000 (Lee Byung-Hun) is out to kill Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney), but John Connor (Jason Clark) was also sent back into the future with the task of going after his mother, Sarah Connor who is played by Emilia Clarke this time. Yes, the "Payoff" trailer is about John Connor going to the dark side. A T-800 (still the good old Arnie) that has also been sent from the past has been keeping Sarah company since she was nine years old. This T-800 also confronts the T-800 that was sent in the original Terminator.
John Connor is in the form of a human-cyborg hybrid and so far the most formidable opponent in the franchise.
For Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese, and the T-800, it is for them to reset the future to ensure that John Connor will still lead the resistance to the eventual defeat of the Skynet.
Terminator Genisys is set for release in July 2015, with the famous lines we have heard from the previous Terminator movies.
