Terminator Geniesyths

It's easy to forget when thinking about the landscape of 2015's blockbusters that a new "Terminator" movie is on the horizon, but come next July Paramount Pictures will bring us Terminator Genisys, the start of a new trilogy of films. Speaking with a number of outlets, A Good Day to Die Hard's Jai Courtney, who takes on the Kyle Reese role in the film, talked about the upcoming project, which he says isn't exactly a sequel or a reboot.

"What I can say is that we start in a place we're familiar with from the early films and then, you know, circumstances change. It somewhat shifts the course of events from that point," he told The Huffington Post. "It's not necessarily a sequel or a reboot. I don't even know how you brand it correctly. We're not remaking one of the early 'Terminator' movies. And it doesn't necessarily carry on from the point where we left off."

Meanwhile, in an interview with The Arnold Fans, Courtney was asked if he thought the film would be rated R, which doesn't seem likely according to the star.

"I would love to see it be rated R, but I don't think it will. I think in this day & age, it's much more likely to be PG-13. There were no f-bombs. But there'll be a healthy amount of movie violence."

Courtney was also asked about shooting the already-announced sequels to the film and whether franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger would return.

"Hard to imagine a Terminator film without Arnold. I guess we start filming - I think the plan is do the next 2 back to back in 2016."

James Cameron isn’t directly involved in Genisys, the reboot starring Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. But he did give producer David Ellison friendly advice on how to integrate a now-67-year-old Schwarzenegger into the film.

“I wasn’t interested in producing it or working on it actively, but I did want to put in a good word for Arnold,” Cameron told me this week when he turned up to LA’s Egyptian Theatre with Hurd for The Terminator‘s 30th anniversary. “I pointed out that the outer covering (of the Terminator) was actually not synthetic, that it was organic and therefore could age. You could theoretically have a Terminator that was sent back in time, missed his target, and ended up just kind of living on in society. Because he is a learning computer and has a brain as a central processor he could actually become more human as he went along without getting discovered.”

He read the script by his Battle Angel screenwriter and Avatar EP Laeta Kalogridis, but won’t dish on what he really thinks of the reboot. “It’s not my problem, that’s the beauty of it,” he said. “It’s like being a grandparent and the kids come over then you can send them back. I think the chain’s been broken by the films in between. When I walked away from it I had to do it with the sense that I can’t invest in this emotionally anymore. If it’s not good, it doesn’t really bother me personally.”