Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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Directed by	Jonathan Mostow
Produced by	Mario Kassar Andrew G. Vajna Joel B. Michaels Hal Lieberman Colin Wilson
Screenplay by	John Brancato Michael Ferris
Story by	John Brancato Michael Ferris Tedi Sarafian
Based on	Characters by James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd
Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger Nick Stahl Claire Danes Kristanna Loken
Music by	Marco Beltrami Themes by: Brad Fiedel
Cinematography	Don Burgess
Edited by	Nicolas de Toth Neil Travis
Production company	IMF Internationale Medien und Film C2 Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) Columbia Pictures (International)
Release date	July 2, 2003 (2003-07-02)
Running time	109 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$187.3 million ($167.3 million excluding production overhead)
Box office	$433.4 million

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also referred to as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science fiction action film, directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. It is the third installment in the series, following Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It does not involve James Cameron, who directed and wrote the first two films.

The plot follows the events of the second installment. After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son is born and to kill John himself as a child, it sends back another Terminator, the T-X, in an attempt to wipe out as many Resistance officers as possible. This includes John's future wife, but not John himself as his whereabouts are unknown to Skynet. John's life is placed in danger when the T-X finds him.

John Connor has been living off the grid in Los Angeles following the death of his mother, Sarah. Although Judgment Day did not occur on August 29, 1997, John still fears a war between humans and the machines. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends a new model of the Terminator called the T-X to July 23, 2003, to kill other members of the Human Resistance. The T-X is more advanced than previous Terminators, and has an endoskeleton with built-in weaponry, a liquid metal exterior similar to the T-1000, and can reprogram other machines. Unlike previous Terminators, its standard appearance is female. The Resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator (T-850 - Model 101) to protect the T-X's targets including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster.