Terminator Salvation is set more than fourteen-and-a-half years after the events of Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines .
The film was followed by another sequel in 2009 entitled Terminator Salvation , a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018 , fourteen years after the events of Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines.
Terminator 3-COLON- Rise of the Machines