For a time after its 2015 release, it looked like Terminator Genisys was going to be known as the sequel that broke the Terminator franchise machine.

Having flopped at the box office alongside a panning from critics, the film's planned sequel was quietly pulled from the release schedule in January 2016 after previously having been put on indefinite hold.

But because there was once a sequel to Genisys planned, that means there are a few ideas left unrealised, and now actor Jason Clarke has revealed some of them.

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"They had an idea," Clarke explained to Collider. "What I remember was that second one was going to be about John's journey after he was taken by Skynet… like going down to what he became; half-machine, half-man.

"That's where the second one was going to start, and that's about all I knew."

And it sounds like Jason is a little disappointed that they didn't get to film that storyline, with the actor adding: "It's such a bummer we didn't get to do that."

Despite the poor reviews and the Genisys sequel that wasn't-to-be, the Terminator franchise is still going strong, with Arnold Schwarzenegger's popular character currently gearing up for a return once again.

Arnie himself previously teased that the production on Terminator 6 will kick off this summer.

While we don't know what the film will be about just yet, we do know that it will be a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and will therefore be ignoring 3, 4 and 5 entirely.

Sorry, Genisys.

Terminator 6 is due to be released on July 27, 2019.

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