Second TERMINATOR GENISYS Trailer Reveals More Details Enjoy the second TERMINATOR GENISYS trailer! The franchise’s new chapter, directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World), stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, Matt Smith, and J.K. Simmons. TERMINATOR GENISYS will be released in theaters on July 1, 2015. After finding himself in a new time-line, Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor’s mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, “Judgement Day”.