Dayo Okeniyi has been cast in the role of Miles Dyson for Terminator: Genesis, joining Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, and Jai Courtney.
The apparent final lead role for Paramount and Skydance’s Terminator reboot, Terminator: Genesis, has been cast with actor Dayo Okeniyi stepping into the shoes of Mile Dyson, the man who inadvertently engineered our apocalypse.
Variety reports that the studio and director Alan Taylor closed in on a deal with Okeniyi, best known for playing one of the tributes in 2012’s The Hunger Games, after talks with John Boyega (who has been linked to Star Wars: Episode VII) ended after he curiously pulled away from the project. Okeniyi joins a cast that already includes Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones as Sarah Connor, the woman who would birth our world’s savoir, as well as Jason Clarke (no relation) as that child grown up in the future, and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, the bridge between the two timelines. Arnold Schwarzenegger is also expected to reprise his role as the time-traveling killer cyborg.
For long-time fans of the Terminator franchise, Miles Dyson did not appear in the original 1984 Terminator flick, but he was a major part of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) where he was played by Joe Morton. As the man who accidentally designs artificial intelligence at Cyberdyne, which becomes Skynet, he is meant to be a sci-fi Oppenheimer who becomes death, the destroyer of worlds. He also did not last long in that film, but since they are moving up his prominence in the reboot, there is a good chance he may last a little longer.
Terminator: Genesis hits theaters on July 1, 2015.
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