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Terminator Genisys (Original title)Terminator Genesis (Help search title)
Dates: 2015 (Copyright), 2015 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: Alan Taylor

Synopsis: In Earth's future a group of humans rebel against an artifically intelligent overlord. Resistance leader John Connor sends a soldier back to 1984 to protect his mother, from a Terminator assassin. Timelines have become twisted however and the soldier finds that Connor's mother Sarah is a skilled fighter with a Terminator guardian. The fight to shape the future takes an alternative turn.

Genres:
Science Fiction, Fantasy

Subjects:
Time travel, Automata
Releases
Date: 2015Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 125 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / Dolby AtmosRuntime: 125 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 125 mins 32 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Paramount Pictures UK
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / Dolby AtmosRuntime: 125 mins 32 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Paramount Pictures UK

Credits (76)
©: Skydance Productions, ©: Paramount Pictures Corporation, a Skydance production: Skydance, With the participation of: The Canadian Film Production Services Tax Credit, A Paramount release: Paramount, presented with: Skydance Prods, Executive Producer: Bill Carraro, Executive Producer: Laeta Kalogridis, Executive Producer: Patrick Lussier, Produced by: David Ellison, Produced by: Dana Goldberg, Associate Producer: Shari Hanson, Unit Production Manager: Wendy S. Williams, Unit Production Manager: Bill Carraro, Supervising Location Manager: Jason A. Waggenspack, Location Manager: David Ross McCarty, 2nd Unit Director: Alexander Witt, 1st Assistant Director: Phil Patterson, 1st Assistant Director: David Sardi, Script Supervisor: Anna Rane, Casting by: Ronna Kress, Screenplay: Laeta Kalogridis, Screenplay: Patrick Lussier, Director of Photography: Kramer Morgenthau, A Camera Operator: Mitch Dubin, Steadicam Operator: George Billinger, Visual Effects Supervisor: Janek Sirrs, Visual Effects Production Supervisor: Viet Luu, Visual Effects by: Double Negative, Visual Effects by: MPC, Visual Effects by: Lola, Stewart VFX, Visual Effects & Animation by: Industrial Light & Magic, Visual Effects by: One of Us, Method Studios, 3D Conversion by: Stereod, Prime Focus, Supervising Special Effects Co-ordinator: Mark Hawker, Editor: Roger Barton, Production Designer: Neil Spisak, Supervising Art Director: Aaron Haye, Set Designer: C. Scott Baker, Set Designer: Nicholas Cross, Set Designer: Sarah Forrest, Set Designer: Luis G. Hoyos, Set Designer: Martha Johnston, Set Designer: Sam Page, Set Designer: Adele Plauché, Set Designer: Andrew Reeder, Set Designer: Walter Schneider, Set Designer: Brian A. Waits, Set Decorator: Jay Hart, Costume Designer: Susan Matheson, Make-up Department Head: Lisa Love, Special Prosthetic Make-up Design: Legacy Effects, Hair Department Head: Anji Bemben, Main Title Design: The Picture Mill, End Titles by: Scarlet Letters, Ben Schoen, Music by: Lorne Balfe, Additional Music by: Andrew Kawczynski, Dieter Hartmann, Orchestra Conducted by: Gavin Greenaway, Executive Music Producer: Hans Zimmer, Synth Programming: Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, [Production] Sound Mixer: Pud Cusack, Sound Re-recording Mixer: Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Supervising Sound Editor: Ethan Van der Ryn, Supervising Sound Editor: Erik Aadahl, Co-supervising Sound Editor: Tobias Poppe, Sound Designer: Tobias Poppe, Stunt Co-ordinator: John Stoneham Jr, Co-stunt Co-ordinator: Melissa R. Stubbs
Cast (47)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (guardian), Jason Clarke (John Connor), Emilia Clarke (Sarah Connor), Jai Courtney (Kyle Reese), J.K. Simmons (O'Brien), Dayo Okenyi (Danny Dyson), Matthew Smith (Alex), Courtney B. Vance (Miles Dyson), Byung-hun Lee (cop, T-1000), Michael Gladis (Lieutenant Matias), Sandrine Holt (Detective Cheung), Wayne Bastrup (young O'Brien), Greg Alan Williams (Detective Harding), Otto Sanchez (Detective Timmons), Matty Ferraro (Agent Janssen), Griff Furst (Agent Burke), Ian Etheridge (Skynet - 10 yrs old), Nolan Gross (Skynet - 12/14 yrs old), Seth Meriwether (Skynet - 18 yrs old), Afemo Omilami (Perry), Teri Wyble (Mariam), Kerry Cahill (Lt Whitley), Mark Adam Miller (Kyle's dad), Kerry O'Malley (Kyle's mom), Willa Taylor (young Sarah), James Moses Black, Terry Dale Parks (security guard), Douglas Smith (Eric Thompson), Anthony Michael Frederick (lead cop), Brandon Stacy (uniform cop), Brett Azar (guardian - young/Terminator T-800), Douglas M. Griffin (Garber), Thomas Francis Murphy (derelict), Joshua Mikel (angry driver), John Edward Lee, Christion Troxel, Luke Sexton (punk), Aaron Williamson (refugee/terminator), Tony Donno (hospital security guard), Ernest M. Wells (garbage man), Larry Lundy Jr (Hero Guerria), Ross Cook, Christopher Heskey, Moses Munoz (soldier), Lisa McRee (chat show host), Seth Carr (young boy), Bryant Prince (young Kyle)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (1)
In: Science fiction film and television v10 n1 Spring 2017  Pages: 115-124
Title: Review essay. Relics from a deleted timeline: the economics of Terminator GenisysAuthor: Wegner, Phillip E.Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Review essay on Alan Taylor's 'Terminator Genisys' (2015), including discussion of possible reasons for the film's disappointing performance at the box office.


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (2)
Title: Queering the Terminator: sexuality and cyborg cinema
Author: GREVEN, David  Pages: ix, 201 pages

Title: Terminator Genisys: resetting the future: inside the creation of the epic new Terminator saga
Author: Cohen, David S.  Pages: 159 pages