Terminator Genisys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[michele]

Despite being considered a reboot that nullifies the existence of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Salvation (2009), the final film resembles the plot of the proposed sequel to Terminator Salvation, with the exception that Judgment Day has reverted back to 1997 as opposed to 2004.

[chad]

(at around 1h 26 mins) This entry continues the franchise tradition of having chase sequences involving large vehicles. A truck chase at the end of The Terminator (1984), the T-1000 pursuing John Connor in a truck in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), the sequence involving the mobile crane during the chase between the T-X and the reprogrammed T-850 in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and another chase scene in apocalyptic Los Angeles which saw Marcus Wright and Kyle Reese attempting to escape the machines in Terminator Salvation (2009). Now this entry's contribution is a chase scene on the Golden Gate Bridge which sees Sarah, Kyle and Pops fleeing in a classic yellow school bus from a pursuing T-3000.

[victoria]

The early sequence in the film with John Connor and Kyle Reese finding the time displacement facility is nearly beat-for-beat identical to the same sequence in the novelization of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The book was written by Randall Frakes based on James Cameron's original T2 script, but the sequence wasn't filmed due to the cost of the sets needed.

[frederick]

Adrian James was offered a role but declined due to scheduling conflicts.

[wallace]

The 1984 Griffith Park scenery was recreated in a New Orleans area parking lot, along with the future war sequence. New Orleans also stood in for most of the downtown Los Angeles setting and the abandoned power station, since Los Angeles itself had been modernized too much since the 1980s.

[kristina]

Paramount green-lit two sequels to this film before it even opened, because regardless of how well it would do at the box office or with critics, all film rights to the Terminator series would revert back to James Cameron in 2019. However, both sequels were canceled after the film's box office failure, paving the way for Cameron to produce Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).

[jim]

This is the third film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's character comes face to face with a duplicate of himself. Last Action Hero (1993): Jack Slater meets the actor who played him in a theater at the premiere of Jack Slater IV.The 6th Day (2000): Adam meets his clone counterpart at the school.Terminator Genisys: The Guardian fights his younger self in 1984.

[jim]

With Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) narrating the opening scenes of this film, all three members of the 'Connor-Reese family' have provided a voice-over in a Terminator movie: Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and her son John Connor (Nick Stahl) in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

[harry]

The actors who portray Sarah and John Connor in the film share the same last name in real life, Clarke - though the actors are not related.

[russell]

Depending on point of view, this is the first Terminator film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger appears but Earl Boen does not. Boen played Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), but not Terminator Salvation (2009). It can, however, be argued that Schwarzenegger himself did not physically appear in Terminator Salvation either, as his presence there was created through digital special effects. In that case, Terminator Salvation is the first.

[edgar]

Costume designer Susan Matheson encountered trouble looking for brand new Nike Vandal shoes that Kyle Reese wears in the 1984 sequence. Her search online and other various avenues mostly had second-hand and worn Vandals for sale. For months, she approached Nike with the request of manufacturing that specific model of shoes but Nike wanted her to design an ID with an Air-Force base. Matheson refused because, as a person with knowledge of sneakers, she did not want to feel guilty of cheating the audience, especially eagle-eyed fans of the first film who can spot the difference between those two bases. It was only after intervention by Paramount that Nike agreed to shut down production and manufacture 25 pairs of Vandals solely for this film, in what could be called Matheson's greatest personal moment in this film.

[lena]

In this film, Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese travel across time to alternate 2017. In January 2017, it was announced that creator James Cameron will return to the Terminator franchise and make the sixth and final Terminator film.

[albert]

James Cameron said this film was the natural follow up to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Arnold Schwarzenegger believed it exceeded Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) technologically, action-wise and in intensity. But when Cameron produced the next Terminator film Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), he decided to ignore Genisys's storyline, opting for a continuation of his own Terminator 2 story.