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Planned "Terminator: Genesis" Now Known As "Terminator: Genisys"

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We've first written about another Terminator movie that is coming out next year last March. According to reports, the initially titled as "Terminator: Genesis" movie had a slight spelling correction and it's now officially called "Terminator: Genisys" and it is going to be a reboot of the Terminator series. This means that this will be  the first movie of a new Terminator Trilogy, which originally was meant to be started by "Terminator: Salvation."

In our previous report, the actors and actresses mentioned will remain the same: Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke as John Connor, Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, and the Mr. Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Skydance is producing the movie with Paramount Pictures having the distribution rights.  Alan Taylor of "Thor: The Dark World" is directing.

We're not sure if there have been changes to the story plot as originally reported. But more can be reported with father and son Kyle Reese and John Connor teaming up to save the future by protecting Sarah Connor. They join an aging T-800, which is Schwarzenegger himself, having been created with a skin that actually ages.

The other famous terminator, the shape shifting T-1000 which first appeared in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, will  be back in the series with Lee Byung-hun, more known as Storm Shadow in the GI Joe movies, playing this role.

There are a speculations on the name change, with Screen Rant writing that:

“Genisys” could also refer to an alternate version of Skynet, which shall be introduced in this new movie. It’s heavily rumored that the Terminator: Genisys script – by Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry) – pulls some Back to the Future inspired time-travel trickery, so that events in the film’s past setting play out in a different fashion than they did in the original Terminator. This could give rise to re-imagined versions of both the present and future in the Terminator universe – one where there’s a Skynet-like AI entity known as “Genisys”, or maybe a Judgement Day-esque event referred to as “Genisys”.

… Or maybe Paramount just decided that Terminator: Genisys was a cooler title for a sci-fi movie than Terminator: Genesis. Your guess is as good as ours, for the time being."

Personally, I am ambivalent with the name change though Genisys is more apt to use for a sci-fi movie. What's more important for me and a good number of fans of the Terminator series is that we need another movie. Paramount Pictures said that they will be giving us three doses for the rest of the decade, starting with Genisys with two more scheduled for 2017 and 2018 respectively.

"I'll be back" is one of the most famous quotes from the Arnie T-800 and hopefully it will be back not only in Genisys, but in the next two sequels too. Skynet be damned.

So hasta la vista in 2015, baby.

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