18 Mindblowing Facts About Movie Terminator GeniSys (2015)!!

Terminator GeniSys (2015) is the 5th movie in the Terminator franchise. As all of its predecessors, this movie is also heavily action packed. The movie is directed by Alan Taylor and stars Emilia Clarke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, And Jai Courtney.

Terminator GeniSys (2015) is set in a new time-line where Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor’s mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, “Judgement Day”.

I Am Back (like Arnold) and as always I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about Terminator GeniSys (2015). Well, have a look and get ready to mindblown.

Terminator GeniSys 2015 Poster
Terminator GeniSys 2015 Poster

18. Terminator GeniSys (2015) is the first film in the series to actually show characters being sent back in time, and the machine that does it.

Time Machine in Terminator GeniSys
Time Machine in Terminator GeniSys

17. They had to shoot Cyberdyne on the NASA stage because there wasn’t any other place in Louisiana tall enough to hold the set.

Cyberdyne set
Cyberdyne set

16. Terminator GeniSys (2015) was released the same year as other new installments of classic film franchises that are reboots and sequels: “Jurassic World (2015)”, “Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)” and “Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force Awakens (2015)”.

Terminator GeniSys
Terminator GeniSys

15. Throughout the Terminator saga (movies and TV 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 now Emilia Clarke is 5′ 2″ (1,57 m).

Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney
Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney

14. Due to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s age, it was decided, instead of CGI to make Schwarzenegger look 30 years younger, that it should be written into the screenplay that the living human tissue that is generated and grown on the Terminator androids, giving them their human forms, can age like normal humans, and the Terminator in this film is older and has gray hair.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator GeniSys
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator GeniSys

13. The film takes place on August 29, 1997, in the 2010s, in 2029, on May 12, 1984, in October 2017 and in 1973.

Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney and Arnold Schwarzenegger

12. Paramount has greenlit 2 sequels to this film before it even opens, because regardless of how well or poor it does at the Box Office, all film rights to the Terminator franchise are set to revert back to James Cameron in the year 2019.

Terminator GeniSys 2015 movie
Terminator GeniSys 2015 movie

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11. The body of young Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie (also seen in the film’s first trailer) is provided by actor and body-builder Brett Azar. Arnold famously sported an enormously muscular physique in his first appearance as the Terminator and to recreate that look for this movie,Brett Azar provided his physique and his face was replaced with Arnold’s in post-production. Arnold was always Brett Azar’s body-building idol and Arnold gifted him cigars and several body-building magazines after the first day of shooting.

Brett Azar as young Terminator T-800
Brett Azar as young Terminator T-800

10. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked out for six months, about three hours a day, before shooting started, by which time he had the exact same body weight and muscle measurements as he had 12 years previously while shooting Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

Arnold as Terminator Pops
Arnold as Terminator Pops

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