A former Green Beret turned high school science teacher, Dan Forester is one of the hundreds drafted to time travel to the year 2051 and help the few remaining humans fight a war against the invading Whitespike aliens, who have decimated the population and the planet.

Chris Pratt is one of many present-day people who are drafted to travel to the future and help fight a war in 2051 against in invading alien force in the upcoming Prime Video action movie, The Tomorrow War.

One of the first big Netflix blockbusters for 2021, Anthony Mackie stars as an android super-soldier on a classified mission with a disgraced drone pilot during a future war in Eastern Europe in the sci-fi action movie Outside the Wire.

Wiping everything after Terminator 2 from existence, Terminator: Dark Fate brings back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, who joins in the fight to protect a young woman that is targetted by a deadly new Terminator model, the Rev-9.