John orders the Terminator to take Kate and him to see Kate's father, U.S. The Terminator reveals that John and Sarah's actions only delayed Judgment Day and that Skynet's attack will occur that day the Terminator intends to drive John and Kate to Mexico to escape the fallout when Skynet begins its nuclear attack at 6:18 p.m. They escape from an armed battle with the police and fend off the pursuing T-X. Inside her vault, they find a weapons cache left at Sarah's request in case Judgment Day was not averted and the Terminators returned. John becomes the T-X's primary target, but the Terminator helps him and Kate escape, taking them to a mausoleum where John's mother is supposedly interred.
The Resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator (a T-101 referred to as the "Terminator") to protect the T-X's targets, including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster.Īfter killing other targets, the T-X locates the pair at an animal hospital, where Kate works. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends a new Terminator model, the T-X, back in time to John's present in Los Angeles, to instead kill his future allies in the Human Resistance. Several years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, John Connor has been living as a nomad following the death of his mother Sarah to hide from Skynet, despite a war between humans and machines not happening in 1997, as foretold. It received generally positive reviews and grossed over $433.4 million worldwide and was followed by a sequel, Terminator Salvation, in 2009. Pictures in the United States and by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International in worldwide territories. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines premiered in Westwood, Los Angeles on June 30, 2003, and was released on Jby Warner Bros. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Stan Winston created the special effects, as they did for the previous film. Filming took place in California from April to September 2002. The budget included a $5 million salary for Mostow and a record $30 million salary for Schwarzenegger. With a final budget of $187.3 million, it was the most expensive film ever made up to that point. Mostow joined the project as director in 2001, and he brought on John Brancato and Michael Ferris to rewrite Sarafian's script. In 1999, Tedi Sarafian was hired to write the first draft of the script. Vajna and Mario Kassar obtained the full rights in 1998, and they produced the film. Carolco Pictures, which owned half of the rights to future Terminator sequels, went into bankruptcy in November 1995. He had previously directed and co-written the earlier films, but he ultimately had no involvement with Terminator 3. The Resistance has also sent its own Terminator (Schwarzenegger) back in time to protect John and Kate.īy the end of 1995, James Cameron was interested in directing a third Terminator film. John's life is placed in danger when the T-X finds him. Among the T-X's targets is John's future wife Kate Brewster (Danes), but not John himself, as his whereabouts are unknown to Skynet. In the film, Skynet sends a Terminator, the T-X (Loken), back in time to ensure the rise of machines by killing top members of the future human resistance, which will be led by John Connor (Stahl). Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as T3) is a 2003 science fiction action film, the third installment in the Terminator franchise and a sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. $187.3 million ($167.3 million excluding production overhead)