New TERMINATOR GENISYS Clips & TV Spots; "Come With Me If You Want to Live"

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have given us a couple of TV spots for their upcoming movie, Terminator Genisys.

When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator assassin, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline. Instead of a scared waitress, Sarah is a skilled fighter and has a Terminator guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) by her side. Faced with unlikely allies and dangerous new enemies, Reese sets out on an unexpected new mission: reset the future.

Also starring J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matthew Smith, Courtney B. Vance and Byung-Hun Lee, Terminator Genisys is directed by Thor: The Dark World‘s Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. The movie will hit theaters on July 1, 2015 and is the first in a planned trilogy of films.

 

 

KINGSMAN’S Sofia Boutella Lands Lead In STAR TREK 3

After a sharp turn as the sexy blade-legged assassin in the Matthew Vaughn-directed hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, Sofia Boutella has been set for a lead role in Star Trek 3, which Justin Lin is directing from a script by cast member Simon Pegg and Doug Jung (creator of the TNT series Dark Blue).

Prying loose info on this project is difficult, so I’m not sure whether she’s on the side of good or bad, but I’m told she’s got a lead role in the Paramount/Skydance film produced by Bad Robot that’s based on the Gene Roddenberry series. Paramount has dated the pic’s release for July 8, 2016.

Source: Deadline

Destiny And Time-Travel Equals TERMINATOR GENISYS

Destiny is a terrible burden. Just ask John Connor. Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator first zapped down to Earth in his birthday suit 31 years ago, fans of the franchise have relied on the idea of John Connor as the savior of the human race. But in Terminator Genisys, Connor’s heroism is less certain. And that mystery made Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) excited to take on the iconic character. “The script expands on our preconceived notions of who John Connor is,” he says. “So I knew I couldn’t just show up and lay down some hard military guy. There’s a lot more going on than that.”

The time-travel-heavy plot toggles between 1984, 2017, and 2029 and introduces both a new Sarah Connor (Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke) and a new Kyle Reese (Insurgent’s Jai Courtney). The filmmakers also pay homage to the original Terminator with a re-creation of Schwarzenegger’s naked arrival scene. The goal was to remind audiences what they love about these movies—which, according to Schwarzenegger, who reprises his role in Genisys, all comes down to the title character. “How cool is it not to feel pain? How cool is it to be like a machine?” he says. “You can be indestructible. It’s a heroic character. I think people admire all this stuff.” Not that he’s biased.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Christopher McQuarrie Talks MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION STUNTS

Over the course of the Mission: Impossible films, Tom Cruise has dangled from ceilings, jumped from motorcycles and helicopters, and scaled the tallest building in the world. So it’s safe to say the series isn’t meant for someone who has difficulty with heights. Then again… “I have crazy vertigo,” says Rebecca Ferguson (Hercules), the latest addition to the franchise. She plays an operative with ambiguous allegiances who aids Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in his fight against the Syndicate, a mysterious shadow organization that operates as an anti-IMF. “Of course, the first scene we did, Tom and me, was throwing ourselves off a Vienna rooftop. I was going to say, ‘It couldn’t get worse,’ but it definitely did.”

At least she didn’t have to hang on to the side of an Airbus A400M cargo plane as it took off—something director Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) reserved for his star. “They brought me this plane, and I was looking at the model,” says McQuarrie. “And I said to Tom, ‘What if you were on the outside of this plane?’ I was kinda half joking when I said it, and he just looked at me and said, ‘Yeah, I could do that.’” Cruise, always one to do his own stunts, was actually strapped to the plane as it was flying at 3,000 feet while filming the sequence, which gives us vertigo just thinking about it.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

New Footage In International TERMINATOR: GENISYS Trailer

“It can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with.” Paramount have released a brand new extended TV spot for Terminator: Genisys, and there’s quite a bit of new stuff to take in — including a bit of humor thanks to our first real introduction to J.k. Simmons’ character.

The beginning of Terminator: Genisys, the first of three planned films that Paramount hopes will relaunch the beloved sci-fi franchise, is set 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 (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Divergent‘s Jai 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 (Game of Thrones‘ Emilia 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.

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Emilia Clarke, Matt Smith, Byung-hun Lee, Courtney B. Vance, and J.K. Simmons, Terminator Genisys is set to be released on July 1st.

Idris Elba In Talks For STAR TREK 3 Villain; Simon Pegg Describes The Writing Process As "Terrifying!"

Idris Elba is in early talks to play the villain in Star Trek 3. Elba would be one of the new additions to the third installment of the franchise, which is in pre-production with Justin Lin at the helm.

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho and Simon Pegg are reprising their respective roles. Pegg, additionally, is writing the script with Doug Jung.

Details of Elba’s role are being kept under wraps. Early rumors suggest that Klingons would be the main villains in this movie, as they have not had a full presence in previous installments, but sources would not confirm if that was the case. Paramount and Skydance had no comment.

Elba is on screens with Sean Penn in The Gunman and his African drama Beasts of No Nation was picked up for distribution by Netflix.

While attending a press event for his upcoming film Kill Me Three Times, Simon Pegg spoke with Collider, and discussed the writing process for Star Trek 3, why he took on the writing duties, and when the script is due. Pegg was first asked by Collider what it felt like writing the script for Star Trek 3, his answer: “Terrifying!”

The actor would then explain in more detail what made made the writing process so frightening saying  “the timeframe we’re working in is extremely tight. It means we’re having to come up with the goods. We can’t be lazy about it. We can’t procrastinate. We have to come up with the stuff because the production is hammering on the door” 

Pegg also reveals that taking on the writing duties weren’t otiginally his idea, but producer Bryan Burk’s, who asked Pegg if ihe was up for it. “I owe J.J. [Abrams] and Bryan an awful amount. I love those guys. I want to do right by them, so I felt like I should man up and do it,” Pegg said, revealing why he took the job. Along with this Pegg also reveals that the script is do by this June, but it will ultimately continue up until next year, because “never really, truly start writing a movie until the edit.”

Source: Collider / Variety

Arnold Schwarzenegger Confirms He’ll Return For Terminator: Genisys Sequel

Arnold Schwarzenegger will return for the sequel to Terminator Genisys, which begins filming next year.

Schwarzenegger confirmed this to fansite TheArnoldFans.com while he was visiting Budapest. When asked if we would appear in the sixth Terminator movie, Schwarzenegger replied “Yes, of course, next year.”

Schwarzenegger is returning to the franchise he helped launch in Terminator Genisys, a film that uses time travel for a soft reboot of the franchise, after being absent from Terminator: Salvation. The film is the first in a new trilogy of Terminator movies.

Terminator Genisys opens July 1.

Source: TheArnoldFans.com 

WORLD WAR Z: Sequel Will Be A ‘Clean Slate’

In 2013, we got a look at what a $200 million zombie movie looks like. World War Z, the Brad Pitt-starring, Marc Forster-directed adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history of the zombie war took on the aesthetic of a disaster blockbuster and rode its wave of digital zombies to box office success. Of course, a sequel is in order and Indiewire‘s Thompson on Hollywood spoke to its writer, the stellar Steven Knight.  

Knight, who penned Cronenberg’s great Eastern Promises and UK TV hit Peaky Blinders, spoke to the site about his feature directorial debut and one of last year’s best films, Locke. Looking ahead, he talks of writing the treatment for the upcoming World War Z follow-up and briefly says, “I thought, ‘why not? What fun.’ It’s not quite like the other, we’re starting with clean slate. When they’ve signed off we’re on.”

World War Z soldiered through behind-the-scenes struggles, infamously scrapping an entire third act in favor of the film’s current incarnation. Where does it all go from here? World War Z 2 is expected to get underway this October, so we’ll see in fall 2016. In the meantime, see Locke.