Terminator: Dark Fate

Terminator: Dark Fate
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Miller
Screenplay by
Story by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyKen Seng
Edited byJulian Clarke
Music byTom Holkenborg
Production
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Release dates
  • October 23, 2019 (2019-10-23) (Europe)
  • November 1, 2019 (2019-11-01) (United States)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget$185–196 million
Box office$261.1 million

Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller and written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, and Billy Ray, based on a story by James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, Goyer, and Rhodes. It is the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and a direct sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events depicted in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), and Terminator Genisys (2015).

The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising their roles as Sarah Connor and the T101 Terminator respectively, and introduces Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna and Diego Boneta as new characters.

The film is set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, when the machines send an advanced Terminator (Luna) back in time to 2020 with instructions to kill Dani Ramos (Reyes), whose fate is connected to the future. The Resistance also sends Grace (Davis), an augmented soldier, back in time to defend Dani, who is also joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet's T-800. Principal photography took place from June to November 2018 in Hungary, Spain, and the United States.

Distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and 20th Century Fox internationally, the film was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2019. Terminator: Dark Fate received mixed reviews from critics, though it was considered an improvement over recent predecessors. However, the film grossed $261.1 million worldwide and lost $122.6 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.