It's a very special issue of** Empire **coming out on Thursday, March 26. For starters, Emilia Clarke's Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 are on the front cover, but then there's the twist: the regular newsstand actually has two covers at the same time, thanks to a fold-out section that reveals the original Terminator in his bare metal bones.
Of course, as all your subscriber friends will have no doubt already have told you, there's another special cover for that particular group of excellent people, the third in the gallery above.
The centrepiece of Empire’s new issue is the return of the epochal franchise. In an exclusive interview, Schwarzenegger trumpets the enduring power of a storyline that's stripped humanity back to its basic will to survive across three decades of jackknifing lorries, massive explosions and narrowly-avoided (or not) nuclear holocausts. But it wasn’t always so. “I didn’t know when I did the first Terminator that this would become such a popular franchise,” he remembers. “But you never know when you do a movie anyway. I mean, some movies, you do a Superman or a Batman, you know the franchise is already there, but with these kind of movies you don’t know..."
Terminator Genisys arrives in UK cinemas on July 3. Head here for the latest trailer.