This new trailer for TERMINATOR: GENISYS is more than man or machine

Look, I know you guys. You’re keen on Terminator: Phil Collins, despite the silly title and the fact that it has Jai “The Real Deal T-800 Acting Bot” Courtney in it. But here’s the thing. You probably shouldn’t see this trailer. And that’s because it has one hell of a SPOILER inside of it.

Hell, even I didn’t see this one coming, and my movie plot-senses border on Spider-Man levels of precognitive prediction. So yeah, consider yourself warned, and if you’re a diehard Terminator film, then good luck avoiding the internet for another two and half months.

https://youtu.be/rGSxss7gWak

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian, dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future…

Sweet liquid chromium Terminators Batman! Before this trailer had been released, one rumour floating around the net was that Matt “Doctor Who” Smith would be revealed as a man/machine hybrid. Now, it turns out that its none other than John Connor himself who has upgraded himself to a post-human state, which evidently requires a little bit of the ol’ parent murder in order to facilitate this evolution.

And it’s making a pretty decent movie look actually rather damn interesting. It’s also giving the franchise a villain who may be leagues ahead of the T-1000 and T-X terminators, one who is able to merge the unstoppable killing power of a machine with the adaptive thinking of a human.

Terminator Genisys is out July 1 and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Matt Smith, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt, J.K. Simmons, Byung-hun Lee and Dayo Okeniyi. Alan “Thor: The Dark World” Taylor directs.