'Terminator 5' News, Rumors: Cast Member Reveals 'Genisys' Will Be A 'Reset' of the Film Franchise
Fans of the Terminator series have all long been excited ever since the announcement of Arnold Schwarzenegger's reprisal for his titular role. Now that the principal photography has been wrapped up last August 6, in San Francisco, movie-goers are now wondering what the movie will be talking about. Will it be a sequel to the previous installment? Or will it set its own phase?
Turns out, Genisys will see the "reset" of the Terminator story timeline. This information has been dished out by Jai Courtney who played the posthumous father of Jason Clarke's John Connor.
"What I can say is that we start in a place we're familiar with from the early films and then, you know, circumstances change," the 28-year-old Aussie actor told Empire. "It somewhat shifts the course of events from that point. It's not necessarily a sequel or a reboot. I don't even know how you brand it correctly. We're not remaking one of the early 'Terminator' movies. And it doesn't necessarily carry on from the point where we left off."
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"It's more of a 'reset,'" the "Spartacus" actor told Collider. "That's the awesome thing about when you play with time travel. We can kind of get away with, you know, maybe we're introduced to a world that audiences know but circumstances can change and that shifts the course of everything."
As previously pointed out by Screen Rant, the Genisys plot line focuses on the T-800 robots traveling back to time between 1984 and 1991, the era that falls around Judgment Day.
Meanwhile, a schedule for the "Terminator Trilogy" was announced Paramount with the first of the two sequels set for May 19, 2017 and to be followed on June 29, 2018.
"Terminator: Genisys" is slated to hit the big screen on July 1, 2015.
