Terminator Genisys

2029. John Connor is about to beat Skynet, but the machine has already sent a T-800 to 1984. Kyle Reese follows to protect Sarah and, mid-jump, sees John attacked. In 1984 everything has changed: Sarah has been trained since age 9 by a T-800 she calls Pops, sent by someone unknown after a T-1000 killed her parents. The three destroy the T-1000 and jump to 2017, when Skynet is about to launch as Genisys, an operating system for every device. There John shows up, turned into a T-3000 by Skynet, which has a human form in the T-5000 Alex. Pops traps John in the time machine's field and Cyberdyne's headquarters blows up. Pops comes back upgraded with liquid metal. Sarah and Kyle drive off together, free to choose their future.

• Mid-credits About two minutes into the credits, the camera drops into a shielded underground chamber that survived the blast. Inside, the Genisys core is still running: Skynet made it.

1. Behind the scenes1984, reshot from scratch

   Another company owned the rights to The Terminator footage, so the 1984 arrival was reshot. Nike made 25 pairs of the discontinued Vandal sneakers for it.

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2. Behind the scenes1984 Arnold in CGI

   MPC spent 12 months on 35 shots of the digital young Terminator. The body on set belonged to bodybuilder Brett Azar.

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3. ReferenceSkin that ages

   The idea that the Terminator's living tissue ages came from a James Cameron suggestion. That's why Arnold is gray.

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4. Behind the scenesCameron praised it, then took it back

   After seeing the film, Cameron said the franchise had been reinvigorated. In 2017 he admitted he only backed it out of friendship with Schwarzenegger.

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5. Behind the scenesThe trilogy that never happened

   Two sequels were dated for 2017 and 2018 and would have revealed who sent Pops back. Both were canceled.

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