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Do you remember 2015’s Terminator Genisys<\/em>, a reboot of the classic 1980s Arnie film? Many do not, and the cast wished they did.<\/p>\n In a 2018 interview with\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, Emilia Clarke said that she watched director Alan Taylor, who frequently directed\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/a><\/em>, get \u201ceaten and chewed up on\u00a0Terminator<\/em>. He was not the director I remembered. He didn\u2019t have a good time. No one had a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0The Guardian\u2019s Peter Bradshaw called<\/a> the action sch-fi\u00a0a \u201ccynical franchisebot, machine-tooled to clank into cinemas and gouge money out of people\u201d.<\/p>\n The poor response and box-office performance killed any sequel talk, but the\u00a0Ponies\u00a0star admitted she was “relieved” that she didn’t have to return to play an alternate version of Sarah Connor. <\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n 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 <\/em>set responded to their own on-set trouble by wearing jackets that read, \u201cAt least we\u2019re not on \u2018Terminator.’\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published by <\/em>Parade<\/a><\/em> on Jul 17, 2026, where it first appeared in the <\/em>Movies<\/a><\/em> section. Add Parade as a <\/em>Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0Vanity Fair, Emilia Clarke said that she watched director Alan Taylor, who frequently directed\u00a0Game of Thrones, get \u201ceaten and chewed up on\u00a0Terminator. He was not the director I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Melissa-Gilbert-Celebrates-Dick-Van-Dykes-100th-Birthday-With-Throwback.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506818,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506817\/revisions\/2506818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}