DRUNK CINEMA 096: "The Terminator" Is Up!

 
"Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. Don't do that again."
"Just let me go!"
"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop...ever, until you are dead!"
-- Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor, The Terminator

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, Xan and I watch The Terminator, the 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, introducing Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, with Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese and Paul Winfield as Lt. Ed Traxler!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan celebrating her 50th birthday, Xan having some gut flora problems, my liking the first Terminator film better than the second, James Cameron's dream about a metallic torso holding kitchen knives dragging itself from an explosion, James Cameron being a horrible person to be married to, wondering why the kid in the restaurant dumped an entire scoop of ice cream in Sarah's pocket, the Terminator meets Dick Miller, why you shouldn't send AI Slop to the wife of an artist, Linda Hamilton on the Beauty and the Beast TV series, Xan thinking Lance Henriksen is cooler than Dick Miller, Ginger going full '80s hair band video girl, how I prefer my bologna sandwich, the second-best chase music in film, the emergence of barcode scanners, the importance of Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator franchise, wondering why the police station wasn't better prepared for an attack on the police station, wondering why James Cameron never made a Terminator film set in the post-apocalyptic future, the savior of the future getting born at the Tiki Motel, motel rooms with kitchens, Kyle Reese losing his virginity, the reveal of the T-800 endoskeleton, James Cameron talking his way out of a citation for not having a film permit, new Drunk Mail from Christine Peruski and Dave Proctor, Xan picking The Dark Crystal as her birthday movie, and more!

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Be sure to come back in four weeks as Xan and I watch The Dark Crystal, the 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, featuring the voices of Stephen Garlick as Jen, Lisa Maxwell as Kira, Billie Whitelaw as Aughra, and Percy Edwards as Fizzgig!

TERMINATOR: GENESIS Casts DOCTOR WHO's Matt Smith

If you've ever wanted to see an episode of Doctor Who with Terminators, this is probably as close as you're going to get.

Deadline is reporting that former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has been cast in the upcoming Terminator reboot Terminator: Genesis.  The article claims this will be "a major role that will grow in the second and third films."

Directed by Alan Taylor, Terminator: Genesis also includes Arnold Schwarzenegger as some form of aging Terminator/T-800, Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Zero Dark Thirty's Jason Clarke as John Connor, A Good Day to Die Hard's Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, and Day Okeniyi as Danny Dyson, the son of Miles Dyson, the inventor of the neural-net processor that leads to the development of Skynet.

Skydance Productions confirmed the news on Twitter today with the following post...

We don't have a TARDIS, but we do have a Time Lord: we're pleased to welcome Matt Smith to the cast of #Terminator.
— Skydance Productions (@Skydance) May 2, 2014

Terminator: Genesis is scheduled for release in theaters on July 1, 2015.

Emilia Clarke Confirmed as Sarah Connor in TERMINATOR: GENESIS

There's another storm coming in.  And appropriately enough, it's the woman called Stormborn.

Deadline has officially confirmed that Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke will be playing the coveted role of Sarah Connor in Paramount Pictures' Terminator reboot Terminator: Genesis, directed by Game of Thrones' Alan Taylor.  Clarke will be joined by Jason Clarke (no relation) as the adult version of her son John Connor and presumably, the original Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a currently undisclosed role.

In the original movie, Sarah Connor was a young Los Angeles college student and waitress who is relentlessly pursued by an android known as a Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Model 101 Terminator that traveled through time from the future.  Sarah is rescued by another time-traveller called Kyle Reese, who explains that the future is controlled by an artifical intelligence called Skynet and the T-800 has been sent to kill her before she can give birth to her son John, who becomes the leader of the human resistance against Skynet.

According to the article, the casting was down to Clarke and 21 Jump Street actress Brie Larson, with both of them testing for the producers at David Ellison's Skydance and Megan Ellison's Annapurna.  As fans of HBO's Game of Thrones know well, Clarke has a solid background portraying a formidable leader as the exiled princess Daenerys Targaryen, developing the character over the past three seasons from a young girl intimidated by her brother Viserys, to the Khaleesi of the Dothraki tribe, to the "Mother of Dragons" that freed tens of thousands of slaves.

Clarke is the third actress to portray the character of Sarah Connor, after Linda Hamilton defined the role in the original 1984 film The Terminator and the 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day.  Fellow Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey revived the character in the fondly remembered 2008-09 Fox television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which lasted for two seasons.

Terminator: Genesis is currently scheduled to be released in theaters on July 1, 2015.