J.K. Simmons has been cast as an investigative detective opposoite Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, and Jai Courtney in Terminator: Genesis.
Character actor, and often an audience favorite, J.K. Simmons has been cast in the upcoming 2015 reboot, Terminator: Genesis. As according to The Hollywood Reporter, Simmons is in the midst of closing negotiations with Skydance Productions and Paramount Pictures to play a gritty detective for the Alan Taylor-directed sci-fi summer tent pole.
Already set to star Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke and Jason Clarke (no relation) as Sarah and John Connor, as well as Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, Simmons will play an original character described to be a hardened detective who has been tracing a series of mysterious murders related to supposed robots and the whispered name of Sarah Connor since 1984 (not so coincidentally the year of the original James Cameron Terminator’s release).
Simmons is a regular character actor with work as eclectic as the current NBC midseason replacement he stars on, Growing up Fisher, to the multiple Coen Brother movies he has appeared in. However, he is likely most known to general audiences as the cigar chomping, libel printing, and flat-top sporting newsman, J. Jonah Jameson, in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. It’s a role that has yet to be recast in the rebooted franchise for a reason.
Terminator: Genesis is to open July 1, 2015.
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