As far as spoilers are concerned, "Terminator: Genisys" has not been stingy, but director Alan Taylor wishes they had been a bit more careful keeping the story under wraps before the movie came out.
During an interview with UPROXX, Taylor said that most of the challenges they have encountered have something to do with marketing, and it has been an "interesting lesson" figuring out how to do things right.
"It's funny," he said. "I certainly directed those scenes with the intention that no one would know. One of my favorite moments - and I think Jason Clarke did a great job with it - is when he walks into the hospital in 2017 and everything from there until the turn, you're supposed to think, 'Oh man, this is great.'"
Taylor said that the marketing department had a "challenging calculus" when deciding what to put on the trailers, and he had a few heads up and a couple of unpleasant conversations with them when he "squawked about this or that."
"I think they felt like they had to send a strong message to a very wary audience that there was something new, that this was going to new territory," he shared. "They were concerned that people were misperceiving this as kind of a reboot, and none of us wanted to reboot two perfect movies by James Cameron. I think they felt they had to do something game-changing in how the film was being perceived."
A lot of people think that audiences became wary with the franchise because of "Terminator: Salvation," which starred Christian Bale, although Taylor said that there were also a number of people who loved that movie.
"I will never trash another movie directed by anybody else, ever, because I know how hard it is to direct," he said. "But, for me, it was a fundamental in that I didn't go along with moving the whole thing into the future."
While many people think that the "Terminator" movies would be really cool set in the future, Taylor thinks that it's about the "here and now" real world experience that just connects to the audiences.
Another interesting aspect was exploring and delving into the franchise's core characters such as Sarah and John Connor.
"We got to explore John Connor's character with a great actor as both the savior of mankind and the threat to mankind. We got to sort of go into what that character represents in a fun way... and, yes, I wish it were experienced in the theater for the first time," he admitted.
