Update: More photos have been added courtesy of EW.

Up until now, the only images we’ve seen from the upcoming Terminator reboot/sequel/rehash Terminator Genisys have been the official logo and a set photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting on a chair. This week, however, they have debuted the first images of the cast in character on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. The pictures show Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke and Matt Smith squinting half-heartedly into the camera above the headline, “How to Save a Billion Dollar Franchise.” Personally, I prefer the photo of the back of Arnold’s head.

Strangely, Arnold is nowhere to be seen here, which seems like a bit of a mistake. They did, however, reveal how he fits into the story, which was apparently James Cameron’s idea. Something tells me fans are not going to be particularly pleased. Terminator Genisys hits theatres on July 1st, 2015; check out the full size images and the plot synopsis after the jump and let us know what you think.

The beginning of Terminator: Genisys, the first of three planned films that Paramount hopes will relaunch the beloved sci-fi franchise, is set in 2029, when the Future War is raging and a group of human rebels has the evil artificial-intelligence system Skynet on the ropes. John Connor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Divergent’s Jai Courtney) is his loyal soldier, raised in the ruins of post apocalyptic California. As in the original film, Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor’s mother, Sarah (Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator programmed to kill her so that she won’t ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on the other side is nothing like he expected.

Sarah Connor isn’t the innocent she was when Linda Hamilton first sported feathered hair and acid-washed jeans in the role. Nor is she Hamilton’s steely zero body-fat warrior in 1991’s T2. Rather, the mother of humanity’s messiah was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9. Since then, she’s been raised by (brace yourself) Schwarzenegger’s Terminator—an older T-800 she calls “Pops”—who is programmed to guard rather than to kill. As a result, Sarah is a highly trained antisocial recluse who’s great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion.