Today Deadline announced that Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has joined the cast of Terminator: Genesis. She will play the sacred young mother Sarah Connor. She joins Jason Clarke (Coincidence?) who plays her future older son John Connor. Kyle Reese has yet to be cast.
This was a hotly contested role and it came down to Clarke and Brie Larson. Both actresses tested for the producers at David Ellison’s Skydance and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna, and Paramount, which will release the film in July 2015. Clarke’s breakout role came in Thrones, where she plays the dragon-commanding heroine Daenerys Targaryen in that massive HBO series, and is probably the most sympathetic of all vying to rule. She started as a shy sister of an annoying king brother, but has demonstrated the mettle to capably play one of the screen’s most formidable heroines as originated by Linda Hamilton in James Cameron’s first two films in the series. She’s repped by CAA.Emilia Clarke is known by her breakout role on Game of Thrones as Daenerys Targaryen the Mother of Dragons. Now their are two Sarah Connors on Game of Thrones with Lena Headey playing her in the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV Series.
Terminator: Genesis hits Summer 2015
