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Directed by | Alan Taylor |
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Based on | Characters by James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd |
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Music by | Lorne Balfe |
Cinematography | Kramer Morgenthau |
Edited by | Roger Barton |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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126 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Box office | $440.6 million |
Terminator Genisys: Music from the Motion Picture | |
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Film score (digital audio) by Lorne Balfe (except bonus track) | |
Released | June 24, 2015 |
Genre | Soundtrack |
Length | 75:03 |
Label | Skydance |
Producer | Hans Zimmer (executive) |
Terminator Genisys is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Alan Taylor and written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. The fifth installment in the Terminator franchise, it serves as a reboot to the film series that features the main characters from the first two films, portrayed by a new cast with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who reprises his role as the eponymous character. The film stars Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney. The plot follows soldier Kyle Reese in the war against Skynet; Kyle is sent from the year 2029 to 1984 by John Connor, leader of the Human Resistance, to protect Connor's mother Sarah from Skynet's android agent. When Kyle arrives in the past, he discovers that the timeline has been altered and Sarah has been raised by his quarry's reprogrammed facsimile, and must travel to 2017 to stop a dangerous scheme from Skynet with his new allies.
Megan Ellison and her production company, Annapurna Pictures, acquired the franchise rights in May 2011. The following year, production of another installment in the series was set up in collaboration with Skydance Productions (owned by Ellison's brother, David). The Ellisons consulted Terminator creator James Cameron in the hope of returning to the spirit of the original film, The Terminator, and its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Principal photography was primarily in New Orleans, with some in the on-screen setting of San Francisco. Six companies handled the film's visual effects; its prosthetic make-up and animatronics were created by Legacy Effects, a studio founded by Terminator veteran Stan Winston.