With the release date shuffling going on recently, Paramount’s also gotten into the game as they’ve pulled the sequel spot they staked out next year for the second Terminator trilogy release. The film didn’t hit expectations by any means, though the $155 million project did $440 million worldwide not including home video releases and other revenue streams. The date for the third hasn’t been pulled yet and we could just see a reshuffling as it’s hard to imagine Paramount not looking for a way to make money on this franchise. In the mean time, they’re not givin gup the weekend as they’ve put the Baywatch reboot there.
The plan originally was for the second film in the new trilogy to be released on May 19th, 2017 while the third installment will land on June 29th, 2018.
The first film came out July 1st, 2015 release with a supporting TV series planned as well, though that’s obviously gotten the kibosh. The film was directed by Alan Taylor and starred Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Day Okeniyi, Matt Smith and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Plot concept: Terminator: Genisys starts in 2029, when the Future War is raging and a group of human rebels has the evil artificial-intelligence system Skynet on the ropes. John Connor (Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Courtney) is his loyal soldier, raised in the ruins of post apocalyptic California. As in the original film, Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor’s mother, Sarah (Clarke), from a Terminator programmed to kill her so that she won’t ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on the other side is nothing like he expected.
