Popular brands dominate Hollywood. This means that popular stories are continued over and over again. The Marvel Cinematic Universe with its over 30 films is the best example of this. However, every now and then it happens that one of these franchises drove into the wall becomes.
The undefeated king in this discipline is the Terminator. The time travel story created by Titanic director James Cameron in the 1980s with Arnold Schwarzenegger was for a long time the epitome of a Science fiction action cinemas. Terminator 2: Judgment Day in particular manifested this reputation.
Terminator: From sci-fi milestone to eternal failure
However, from the 2000s onwards, the series began to falter. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was overshadowed by its predecessors. The fourth part, which shifted the action to the post-apocalypse in which the machines have taken control of the earth, was also unable to keep the series going. not revive long-term.
You can watch the trailer for Terminator 5: Genisys here:
Terminator: Genisys – Trailer (German) HD
The hope then rested on a reboot Terminator 5: Genisys from 2015. In the year in which Star Wars and Jurassic Park celebrated their glorious return to the big screen, the Terminator franchise was also due for a new blockbuster era updated – this time with a big nostalgia bonus.
Arnold Schwarzenegger returned as the T-800, after he only appeared in the previous film in the form of a CGI cameo. In addition, the Terminator reboot lured viewers with Emilia Clarke’s first major blockbuster role outside of Game of Thrones. In Terminator 5: Genisys, she played none other than Action icon Sarah Connor.
Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t save Terminator 5
The fifth Terminator film was supposed to Start of a new trilogy Something similar was planned for Terminator 4: Salvation six years earlier. In addition, the producers of the series wanted to make the leap to television again and create a series whose plot would have been closely linked to the aforementioned trilogy.
Paramount set the cinema release dates for the Terminator 5 sequels as May 19, 2017 and May 29, 2018. Both sequels would thus be filmed directly one after the other The focus of the second part was on John Connor, played by Jason Clarke, the third key character in the Terminator series.
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Terminator 5: Genisys
Finally, the plans were approved by the Box office results of the reboot destroyed: With a budget of 155 million US dollars, the film grossed just 90 million US dollars in the USA. Worldwide, Terminator 5: Genisys grossed 440 million US dollars, but at the end of the day, this amount was not enough.
After several flops, Terminator ends as an anime on Netflix
While Star Wars and Jurassic Park guaranteed billion-dollar hits, Terminator failed to meet financial expectations. After a long back and forth, the studio decided to make the next reboot. Terminator 6: Dark Fate, which hit theaters two years ago, not only deleted his predecessorbut also parts 3 and 4 completely.
The fourth (!) attempt to bring the series back to the cinema was conceived as a sequel to the first two parts. This time, the promise of nostalgia lured not only Arnold Schwarzenegger, but also Linda Hamilton, the original Sarah Connor. Terminator 6: Dark Fate was still not a success.
With a worldwide box office revenue of 260 million US dollars, the 185 million US dollar film marks the box office low point of the series. We will not see the Terminator in the cinema for the time being. Instead, Netflix is releasing 29 August 2024 the post-apocalyptic anime series Terminator Zero is launched.
Sci-Fi blockbuster: When will Terminator 5 be on TV?
Terminator 5: Genisys will be shown tonight on July 26, 2024 at 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben. The broadcast will run with advertising until 10:50 p.m. The repeat will follow at 1:00 a.m. Alternatively, you can currently stream the film on WOW and Netflix with a subscription.