Tom and Jerry: Terminator Salvation

Tom and Jerry: Terminator Salvation is a 2021 American Live Action/animated action comedy-adventure direct-to-video film, produced by Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Pictures (WarnerMedia Byline), Warner Bros. Animation, Columbia Pictures The Halcyon Company and Wonderland Sound and Vision and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Releasing based on (Terminator Salvation 2009 Film)

Plot
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. Sometime later, the automated Skynet system is activated and becomes self-aware; perceiving humans as a threat to its existence, it starts a nuclear holocaust to eradicate them in the event known as "Judgment Day".

In 2018, John Connor orchestrates an attack on a Skynet base, where he discovers prisoners and schematics in a laboratory for incorporating living tissue to a new type of Terminator, which he recognizes as the T-800 model. John survives an explosion on the base, which is destroyed. Following John's departure, Marcus emerges from the base's wreckage and begins walking toward Los Angeles.

John returns to the Resistance headquarters located aboard a nuclear submarine and is briefed by General Ashdown that the Resistance has discovered a hidden signal containing a code protocol that they believe can initiate a shutdown of Skynet's machines. The Resistance plans to launch an offensive against Skynet's headquarters in San Francisco. It is decided among the Resistance that the offensive will commence in four days, due to an intercepted kill-list created by Skynet, which plans to kill the Resistance's leaders within the same time frame. John learns he is second on this list, following Kyle Reese. The Resistance leaders do not understand Kyle's importance, but John knows that Kyle will eventually travel back in time and become his father and realizes that Skynet has learned of this fact.

Arriving at the ruins of Los Angeles, Marcus encounters Kyle and a mute child named Star during a skirmish with Skynet's machines. Kyle and Star are subsequently abducted and taken prisoner by Skynet. Two Resistance A-10 airplanes are shot down while trying to intercept a machine transport. Marcus locates downed pilot Blair Williams, and they make their way to John's base, where Marcus is wounded by a magnetic land mine. Attempting to save his life, the Resistance fighters discover that Marcus is actually a cyborg, with a cybernetic endoskeleton and a partially artificial cerebral cortex. Although Marcus insists that he is human, John and his wife, Kate, suspect that Marcus has been sent to execute them, and John orders him to be killed. Blair helps Marcus escape. During the pursuit, Marcus saves John's life from Skynet's hydrobots and the two make a bargain: Marcus will enter Skynet's headquarters in San Francisco to help John rescue Kyle and the other prisoners if he lets him live.

John pleads with General Ashdown to delay the offensive so he can formulate a plan to extract the human captives, but Ashdown refuses and relieves John of his command. However, the Resistance disobeys Ashdown's orders and instead awaits John's signal. Marcus enters the base, interfaces with the computer, and disables perimeter defenses so that John can release the prisoners. Marcus learns from Skynet (which assumes the form of Dr. Kogan on a screen) that he was resurrected by it in order to lure John to the base; when the Resistance launches its attack, John will be killed, achieving Skynet's goal. The hidden signal that the Resistance received earlier is revealed to be a ruse, and Skynet uses it to track down and destroy the Resistance command submarine.

Refusing to accept his fate, Marcus tears out the hardware linking him to Skynet and leaves to aid John. John locates Kyle and Star, but they are ambushed by a T-800 Terminator. As Kyle and Star escape, Marcus appears and fights the T-800 while John rigs together nuclear fuel cells to destroy the facility. Marcus is soon outclassed in strength and temporarily disabled until John comes to his aid, after which John is stabbed through the chest by the T-800 from behind. Marcus destroys the T-800 by tearing its head off, and he, John, Kyle, and Star are airlifted out. John detonates the explosives, taking out a stockpile of Skynet's weapons, including the T-800s, with the base, altering the future.

At a field hospital, John's injury is deemed terminal, so Marcus offers his heart for transplantation, sacrificing himself to save John. As he recovers, John radios to other Resistance fighters that, although this battle has been won, the war continues.

Cast

 * Richard Kind as Tom
 * Dana Hill as Jerry
 * Christian Bale as John Connor
 * Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright
 * Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese
 * Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams
 * Common as Barnes
 * Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Serena Kogan / Skynet
 * Michael Ironside as General Ashdown
 * Ivan G'Vera as General Losenko
 * Roland Kickinger as T-800
 * Jadagrace Berry as Star
 * Brian Steele as the T-600.
 * Linda Hamilton as the voice of Sarah Connor

Trivia:

 * Rated PG-13: mild violence, threat, rude humour, language.
 * Suggested Running Times: 115 minutes (NTSC), 78 Minutes (PAL).
 * This is a crossover between Tom and Jerry and Terminator Salvation (2009).
 * This will feature the Return performance of Richard Kind (the voice of Tom) and Dana Hill (the voice of Jerry)

Music
Danny Elfman began composing the score in January 2009. Beforehand, McG wanted to hire Gustavo Santaolalla to work on the music for the human characters, while having either Thom Yorke or Jonny Greenwood for Skynet's themes. He couldn't get Hans Zimmer but he did meet with the original Terminator composer Brad Fiedel but decided he did not want to repeated the sounds Fiedel achieved in his films. McG wanted Elfman to give those themes and ambient sounds a "Wagnerian quality".

Reprise Records released the soundtrack on May 19, 2009, which included 15 tracks. While Common had expressed interest in writing a song for the soundtrack, Alice in Chains' "Rooster" is the only featured song. Although not included in the soundtrack, "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses, which was featured in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, can be heard briefly in a scene of the film as well.

All music is composed by Danny Elfman except Rooster. Terminator Salvation