Terminator Genisys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[kyle]

Kyle Reese was born in 2004.

[kyle]

The end battle pays homage to the endings of the first three Terminator films: Kyle slaps the evil Terminator across the head with a piece of metal as he did to the T-800 endoskeleton in The Terminator (1984); Sarah repeatedly shoots him with a shotgun as she did to the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991); and Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 holds him back to be destroyed as he did the T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

[wesley]

Emilia Clarke described working with Arnold Schwarzenegger as "definitely quite surreal. Everything you know about him on screen he brings in real life as well". She grew up on his films and idolized him and couldn't believe she was working with him. Clarke first met Schwarzenegger at the read-through and inwardly started geeking out. When she first heard him say "I'll be back" it was a major moment.

[linda]

When Otto Sanchez and J.K. Simmons previously collaborated on Oz (1997), both played prisoners. In Terminator Genisys (2015), they both play detectives.

[ray]

Matt Smith passed on the opportunity to play Alex in this film three times. His mother finally convinced him to take the role, saying he would be stupid to pass on such a chance.

[lynn]

Emilia Clarke and Matt Smith attended the 2016 BAFTA Awards Ceremony. Together, they presented the Best Visual Effects segment, which was won by Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).

[russell]

(at around 52 mins) The scene where Sarah and Kyle arrive in 2017 barenaked in the middle of a freeway was a nod to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Pilot (2008), where Sarah, John, and Cameron arrive in 2007 in the middle of a freeway barenaked.

[fred]

Jai Courtney (Kyle Reese) and Emilia Clarke (Sarah Connor) were both born in 1986, which makes them 30 years younger than original Reese and Connor actors Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton from The Terminator (1984). Biehn and Hamilton were both born in 1956. This also means that Jai and Emilia are one year older than Biehn and Hamilton when they portrayed their respective characters (since Terminator Genisys (2015) was released 31 years after The Terminator (1984).

[eli]

(at around 1 min) The little boy in the plane who looks out of the window when Skynet launches the missiles, is playing with a Nintendo Gameboy handheld console.

[melinda]

Throughout the Terminator saga (movies and television series), the actresses portraying Sarah Connor are shorter and shorter: Linda Hamilton is 5' 6" (1,68 m); Lena Headey is 5' 5½" (1,66 m) and Emilia Clarke is 5' 2" (1,57 m).

[jim]

Emilia Clarke took special weapons training to play Sarah Connor. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't sure if Clarke had ever fired a gun before the film but thought her training paid off and handled herself well in the fight scenes and seemed believable.

[steve]

This marks the second time Alan Taylor has worked with an actor who previously portrayed Doctor Who: Matt Smith as the T-3000. Taylor worked with Christopher Eccleston on Thor: The Dark World (2013).

[chris]

There are a few subtle hints at the beginning of the film that indicate that the prologue already takes place in a different timeline (i.e. it is not the exact same future as seen in The Terminator (1984)): Kyle Reese is saved by John Connor from a Terminator in a sewer, whereas in The Terminator, he states that John freed him from a factory where he was enslaved by Skynet. Also, Kyle still has the photograph of Sarah Connor before he is about to time travel. In The Terminator, it is established that this photo had burned long before he did that.

[claude]

(at around 1h 35 mins) When The Terminator/Guardian is looking over a new type of ammo, he mentions that he read about it on gunsandammo.com. In preparing for the first The Terminator (1984) movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger trained every day for weeks on weapons handling and, as a result, wound up garnering a compliment in Soldier of Fortune magazine for his realistic handling of the guns on camera.

[ronnie]

This is the second film in the Terminator series to have a PG-13 rating in the United States. This is the third film in the series to have a 12A rating in the United Kingdom. This is also the first time Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in a PG-13 rated Terminator film.

[veronica]

The first of all Terminator movies that includes a hidden scene during the ending credits.

[bryan]

This is the first film that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not credited as "Terminator" in the ending credits. Rather, he is named "Guardian."

[ruby]

The first Terminator film in which the time machine is seen. Scenes were scripted for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) to show the Time Displacement Device (as it was called), but it was decided that these scenes were not important enough to justify the costs of building additional sets.

[amber]

(at around 47 mins) When Kyle Reese is talking to Sarah Connor about John Connor, he is reminiscing about a time they unsuccessfully tried to make moonshine. Jason Clarke who plays John Connor also portrays Howard Bondurant a successful moonshiner during the Prohibition Era film Lawless (2012).