Terminator Genisys is a 2015 American
science fiction action film, directed by
Alan Taylor and written by
Laeta Kalogridis and
Patrick Lussier. The fifth installment in the
Terminator franchise, the film stars
Arnold Schwarzenegger, reprising his role as the
eponymous character, along with
Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, and
Jai Courtney. The film's plot follows soldier
Kyle Reese (Courtney) in the war against
Skynet, an
artificial general intelligence seeking to destroy the human race. In a sequence of events similar to 1984's
The Terminator,
John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the Human Resistance, sends Reese back in time from 2029 to 1984 to protect Connor's mother,
Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), who is being targeted by Skynet. However, once Reese arrives in the past he discovers
the timeline has been altered, and Sarah has been raised by a reprogrammed Terminator, known as the Guardian (Schwarzenegger), since her childhood.