Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller

and written by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes and Billy Ray from a story by James Cameron,
Charles Eglee, Josh Friedman, Goyer and Rhodes. Cameron also produced the film with
David Ellison. It is the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and a direct sequel to
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009) and Terminator Genisys (2015), following the
return of creative control to Cameron.

The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sarah Connor and the T-800
Terminator, respectively, reuniting the actors after 23 years. It introduces Mackenzie Davis,
Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna and Diego Boneta as new characters. Set 25 years after the
events of Terminator 2, the film sees the machines sending an advanced Terminator (Luna),
designated Rev-9, back in time to 2020 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, while they are joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet's T-800 Terminator.

Principal photography took place from June to November 2018 in Hungary, Spain and the
United States. Distributed by Paramount Pictures in North America, Tencent Pictures in
China and 20th Century Fox (through Buena Vista International) in other territories, the film
was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2019. Although considered an
improvement over recent predecessors by critics, the film only grossed $261 million
worldwide and lost $122.6 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.
As a result, plans for future films were cancelled.

n 1998, three years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems,[note 1] Sarah and John Connor have
retired to Livingston, Guatemala when they are suddenly ambushed by a T-800 Terminator,
one of several sent back through time by Skynet, which kills John despite Sarah's attempts to
stop it.

In 2020, an advanced Terminator, the Rev-9, is sent back in time to Mexico City to murder
Dani Ramos, while a cybernetically enhanced soldier, Grace, is sent from 2042 to protect her.
The Rev-9, disguised as Dani's father, infiltrates the automobile assembly plant where Dani
and her brother Diego work, but is thwarted by Grace, who escapes with the siblings. The
Rev-9, using its ability to split into its cybernetic endoskeleton and shape-shifting liquid metal
exterior pursues them, killing Diego and cornering Grace and Dani. However, Sarah arrives
and temporarily disables both entities using military-grade weaponry.

Dani, Grace, and Sarah retreat to a motel, where Sarah reveals that she found them because in
the years since John's death she has received encrypted messages detailing the locations of
arriving Terminators, each ending with "For John", allowing her to destroy them before they
become threats. Grace notes that Skynet and John do not exist in her future, meaning Sarah
succeeded in destroying the former after Cyberdyne went defunct. However, humanity's
future is threatened by another AI called Legion, originally developed for cyberwarfare,
which was built in Skynet's place. When Legion became a threat to humans, an attempt was
made to neutralize it with nuclear weapons, resulting in a nuclear holocaust and the AI
creating a global network of machines to terminate the human survivors, who organized a
resistance movement to counter Legion's onslaughts, and Dani's destiny is linked to their war
against it.
Grace traces Sarah's messages to Laredo, Texas. Barely evading the Rev-9 and the authorities
while crossing the Mexico–United States border, they arrive at their source, where they
discover the same T-800 that had murdered John. Having fulfilled its mission and with Skynet
no longer existing, the T-800 was left aimless. Over time and through its adaptability, it
became self-aware, learned from humanity, and developed a conscience, taking the name
"Carl" and adopting a human family. After learning how its actions affected Sarah and being
able to detect the location of temporal displacements, Carl decided to forewarn her of them to
give her a purpose to make amends. Carl offers to join them against the Rev-9 and they
prepare to destroy it, with Sarah begrudgingly agreeing to work together for Dani's sake.
Anticipating the Rev-9's arrival, Carl bids its family farewell and tells them to escape.

They seek out a military-grade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generator from an acquaintance
of Sarah's. The Rev-9 catches up with them, forcing them to steal a plane to escape, though
the EMP generators are destroyed in the resulting shootout. During the flight, Grace reveals
Dani becomes the future founding commander of the resistance before the Rev-9 boards their
airplane and temporarily subdues Carl, forcing Grace, Sarah, and Dani to parachute from the
plane into a river near a hydroelectric plant, with Carl and the Rev-9 following close behind.

Bludgeoned, the group makes their stand inside the plant. In the ensuing battle, Carl and
Grace force the Rev-9 into a spinning turbine, causing an explosion that critically damages the
two Terminators, while mortally wounding Grace. The severely damaged Rev-9 endoskeleton
incapacitates Sarah, forcing Dani to confront it herself. A dying Grace tells Dani to use her
power source to destroy the Rev-9. Dani tries to fight it but is quickly overpowered. Carl
reactivates itself and restrains the Rev-9, allowing Dani to stab it with Grace's power source.
Carl drags itself and the Rev-9 over a ledge before the power core explodes, destroying them
both.

Sometime later, Dani and Sarah watch a young Grace at a playground with her family, the
former determined to avert Grace's death and Legion's rise, before driving off to prepare.