Directed by Alan Taylor and written by Laeta Calogridis and Patrick Lüssow, John H. Moore, and T.S. Nowlin (screen story), Terminator Genisys takes place in 2029, where a young John Connor (Dane DeHaan) is on the run from a new, advanced Terminator, the Genisys T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger). The film then jumps back to 1984, where we meet Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), a high school student who's struggling to cope with her mother's death.