The 'Whiplash' star describes the 'Terminator Genisys' script as 'more intelligent and fun and funny and well-rounded and heartfelt.'
- Oct 3, 2014
AceShowbiz - "Terminator Genisys" may explore the romance more than the previous film. Speaking to ComingSoon, J.K. Simmons who will star in the reboot offered a rather unexpected tease about the revamped version of the classic sci-fi. "It's a love story," so he said.
He was initially reluctant to get involved, but was eventually sold on the script. "I thought, 'Well, obviously it's a gigantic movie and on that level, it's something most actors would want to be a part of, but is it just going to be the formulaic yadda-yadda-yadda then cut to the stuff blowing up?' " he explained.
"But I found the script to be really much more intelligent and fun and funny and well-rounded and heartfelt," he went on. "It's a love story. It's a really interesting script. They got great actors. I wrapped that in August, so that was another movie that ended up being really satisfying on all levels."
"Most of my stuff was with Jai Courtney and Emilia Clarke and Arnold was very involved or rather I was involved in a fair amount of stuff with Arnold," he said of his role. "I felt I could give too much away by saying that I get to work with all those actors, but people know the characters that they're playing."
Alan Taylor ("Thor: The Dark World") serves as the director. Emilia stars as Sarah Connor, Jai as Kylie Reese, Jason Clarke as John Connor, Arnold Schwarzenegger will return as the titular robot and Dayo Okeniyi will play Danny Dyson, the son of Miles Dyson who is directly responsible for the creation of Skynet. The film is due July 1, 2015 in the United States.
