Do you remember 2015’s Terminator Genisys, a reboot of the classic 1980s Arnie film? Many do not, and the cast wished they did.
In a 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Emilia Clarke said that she watched director Alan Taylor, who frequently directed Game of Thrones, get “eaten and chewed up on Terminator. He was not the director I remembered. He didn’t have a good time. No one had a good time.”
The movie, which acted as an alternate timeline to the original Linda Hamilton films, has a 26% score on Rotten Tomatoes and only $89 million at the U.S. box office. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called the action sch-fi a “cynical franchisebot, machine-tooled to clank into cinemas and gouge money out of people”.
The poor response and box-office performance killed any sequel talk, but the Ponies star admitted she was “relieved” that she didn’t have to return to play an alternate version of Sarah Connor.
Clarke plays a version of Sarah Connor in an altered timeline who is raised from a young age by a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator; she is already a skilled fighter when Kyle Reese arrives in 1984. Together with their Terminator, they battle a T-1000 and time-jump to 2017 to stop Skynet (rebranded as the OS “Genisys”) from launching
The cast and crew hated making the franchise reboot, which co-starred Jason Clarke and Jai Courtney, so much that word spread to a nearby set. Clarke claimed that the crew of Josh Trank’s 2015 Fantastic Four set responded to their own on-set trouble by wearing jackets that read, “At least we’re not on ‘Terminator.’”
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