Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles

A multi-part YouTube and VR/360 action-comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a roster of major YouTube influencers.

// producerParamount Pictures & YouTube
// my roleWriter
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Arnold Schwarzenegger recruits the YouTube resistance

Skynet has uncovered a new threat to their domination: key leaders of the human resistance who got their starts as...YouTube stars? When a new, shapeshifting Terminator is sent from the future to hunt down and destroy them, the YouTubers must band together to survive – and they'll need the help of the original T-800. A special VR episode used 360 video to tell the story from the POV of the Terminator.

I wrote and co-produced the series, working with director Charles Paek, the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a cast of top YouTube creators including Lilly Singh, Toby Turner, and Olga Kay. The campaign was one of the first major Hollywood studio attempts to build native content within the YouTube creator ecosystem.

Title card for the first episode of Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles, showing the franchise logo over a composite of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 alongside Ricky Hayberg and Eliot Dewberry from Machinima.
A 360-degree video still from the Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles VR episode showing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, alongside Lilly Singh and Toby Turner, surrounded by Skynet interface overlays and targeting reticles.