A Brief Glance at the Cast of Terminator: Genesis

I admit I'm not looking forward to this movie. Rebooting the Terminator franchise is not what is needed to help the franchise out. A T5 that followed Terminator Salvation could have worked out the kinks in that movie.

However, I write for a Terminator fansite and so I haven't been able to push this as far from my mind until it comes to theaters as I wished.

Today I will talk about a few of the cast members that I'm familiar with. I hope all of those mentioned in this post do good performances even if they don't have that good of material to work with.

Matt Smith, most notable for playing the 11th Doctor on the BBC show Doctor Who, will be in Terminator: Genesis in a yet unnamed role. The 11th Doctor is my second favorite Doctor on Doctor Who, first being Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor, and I am excited to see him in a role that doesn't have anything to do with his former show. Well...except for the sci-fi and time travel parts that make up the Terminator Universe.

Emilia Clarke, whom I first saw as Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, will be the new Sarah Connor. This is probably the casting choice I'm most pleased with. In Game of Thrones Clarke is able to evolve from an innocent woman into a deadly queen. That's the kind of character development Sarah Connor needs. In T1 Sarah is thrown into a whole new world and in T2 she becomes very much a part of something that used to be strange to her.

Jai Courtney, who was recently in A Good Day to Die Hard and Divergent, will be the new Kyle Reese. Does he look like Michael Biehn? It doesn't matter as Terminator: Genesis is a reboot of the franchise. In A Good Day to Die Hard his mission was to protect a man and he was a good guy. This screams Kyle Reese protecting Sarah Connor. Though the outcomes of both situations are very different. In Divergent he was a bad guy so I was unsure of what to think of him being the new Kyle Reese until I saw the latest Die Hard movie.

And the final cast member I will talk about needs no introduction as his name, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is enough. I have to say him being in the movie is the casting choice I like the least. It just feels too much of a fanservice push than anything else. It's like people think if there's no Arnold in a Terminator movie then no one will go see it. Hell, in Terminator Salvation the Arnold CGI crap was made so there would technically be Arnold in it.

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Matt Smith in Terminator: Genesis

While I am not looking forward to Terminator: Genesis, that doesn't mean now and again news about it will intrigue me. I am always going to be hopeful, until I see the film myself, that it'll actually be good. I don't want it to be bad, but I feel it's heading that way.

One bit of news has made me more interested in going to theaters to see the film. That bit of news is that Matt Smith is going to be joining the cast of the reboot. Yes, Matt Smit is going to be in yet another series featuring time-travel.

My Doctor is 9, aka Christopher Eccleston, but Smith's Doctor in Doctor Who was the first one I kept up with. Each week I'd be waiting to see what happened. So when I heard the news that Smith was going to be in Terminator: Genesis I had, and still do have, mixed feelings about it.

On one hand I am going to see what Smith can do outside of Doctor Who. Whenever I read an author like Timothy Zahn who is most famous for his Star Wars novels, I read something non-Star Wars (aka series/work in question) related to see if Zahn (aka author in question) really is a good author. Same thing I like to do with actors. I like to see if I just like their one role or their acting abilities as a whole. With Terminator: Genesis I'll be able to more fully judge Matt Smith.

But on the other hand, Matt Smith will be in Terminator: Genesis. It's a film I don't have much faith in and now my sorry ass will be rushing towards the theater when it comes out. Hell, I don't know if I can calm my fangirl heart down enough to not just run out to the theaters now.

Matt Smith's exact role isn't know yet. What is known is that he'll be playing a character that is close to John Connor.

Kyle and Kyle Reese

I am not a big fan of the announcement that the next Terminator movie will be a reboot of the series. I am one of the few that loved Terminator Salvation and wanted to see that story continued.

I wanted scenes of John Connor interacting with Kyle Reese and having to hide the fact that the boy is his father.

I  also wanted to see Kyle Reese and Star get together romantically and have this subplot have it much harder for Kyle to go back in the past and impregnate Sarah Connor with John (I am going to deal with that subplot in my own TERMINATOR FIC). I know that he'll go back but I'm a sucker for seeing a character in pain and confusion.

But the reboot is going to start from square one it seems. I know many Terminator fans would love the reboot to undo everything post Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but messing with the first two is very dangerous grounds.

One of the people that is up to play Kyle Reese is Boyd Holbrook. I find this hilarious as he played Kyle in the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's The Host. So he'll have two Kyles on his resume.

I know everyone knows Kyle Reese. He's the father of John Connor and a fighter of the Resistance. He has his faults, but he's an all around good character.

Kyle from The Host...I have not seen the movie so I don't know what changes were made or how well Holbrook acted. What I do know is that Meyer did not know how to use the character and had the text vilify him.

Kyle is one of the free humans that is hiding away with Uncle Jeb. He is also one of the only ones that doesn't like Wanderer (one of the two main protagonists of the book/movie) since she is one of the aliens that took over the planet. He is suspicious and at one point tries to kill her.

In other words: he's one of the few characters with half a brain in the book.

But because he's not in Wanderer's fanclub he must be a giant douche for thinking like a normal human being.

I haven't seen the movie version of The Host so I can't comment on Holbrook's acting chops or if he can do good action scenes.

If he is picked for the role: please have him do justice to the role of Kyle Reese.

The Terminator Franchise