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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick, it is the sequel to The Terminator (1984) and is the second installment in the Terminator franchise.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Directed by James Cameron. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick. A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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- James Cameron Sold The Rights to The Terminator For $1.
- James Cameron and His Team Had Less Than Two Years to Complete Terminator 2.
- The T-1000 Was Partly Inspired by James Cameron's The Abyss.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Hated The Terminator 2 script.
- James Cameron Wanted Billy Idol to Play The T-1000.
- Edward Furlong Was Plucked from Obscurity to Star in Terminator 2.
- James Cameron Shot The Canal Chase While Riding in A Motorcycle Sidecar.
- Terminator 2 Originally Had A Different Ending.
- Terminator 2 Essentially Made Its Money Back Before It Even premiered.
- Several Versions of T2 Have Been Released, But James Cameron Has A favorite.
In order to make a deal to get the original movie made, Cameron sold the rights to The Terminatorfor a whopping $1—and he didn’t regret it. When the idea of making a sequel came up—and even before Cameron was approached about shooting it—Carolco shelled out $15 million to liberate the property from its original distributor at the behest of Arnold S...
Immediately after signing on to make the film, Cameron's own judgment day was looming: Carolco founder Mario Kassar announced that the film would be released in 1991, over the Fourth of July weekend, which gave Cameron, Wisher, and a crew he had not even begun to assemble approximately 20 months to finish T2.
Cameron credits ILM visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren for the idea of the T-1000. It was Muren who suggested that they could build on the ideas utilized in Cameron’s The Abyssand create e a computer generated character that would be made of “liquid metal” instead of water, a choice that eliminated one hurdle (transparency) only to absorb anoth...
Cameron finished his first draft ofT2 just in time for Carolco to debut its upcoming slate for the following summer at a huge industry event. While flying there, Schwarzenegger read the script for the first time—and he was not pleased. Aside from sorting through arcane terminology like mimetic polyalloy, the action star was baffled to discover that...
Cameron briefly considered casting Billy Idol as the villainous android because he liked his look. But before he or anyone else could get too far down the road with that idea, Idol got into a bad motorcycle crash. "Unfortunately, he got into a motorcycle accident and busted up his leg, so he wasn’t able to physically do what the role demanded,” Pat...
After searching through too many practiced young performers who Cameron said had been trained "to be perky in family settings and sell cereal," casting director Mali Finn discovered Edward Furlong at the Pasadena Boys and Girls Club. Though he held no aspirations to act, she coached him through three auditions before Cameron hired him.
The canal chase was shot deep in the San Fernando Valley, requiring production to divert a man-made river in order to create the proper continuity. Schwarzenegger’s stunt double Peter Kent actually performed the Harley jump, and the production refitted a series of Harley Fat Boy motorcycles to achieve the right effect when it landed, although ultim...
Multiple endings were shot for the film, including a more meditative finalewith Sarah (played by Hamilton in old age makeup) visiting her son John, who is now a politician in a future that never knew the war of the machines. Test audiences balked, but after initially resisting their feedback, Cameron eventually used some extra footage of empty blac...
Despite its budget-busting price tag, Terminator 2 largely recouped its costsbefore the film even opened: Worldwide rights were sold for $65 million, video rights for $10 million, and television rights for $7 million. Still, it was at the time the most expensive film ever produced (without adjusting for inflation).
Terminator 2eventually grossed $205 million in the United States and $520 million worldwide, producing a television series and four sequels with various direct and indirect connections to its mythology. It was nominated for six Oscars and won four, for Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Sound, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects. Two extended cuts p...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also promoted as T2) is the 1991 sequel to The Terminator. The film was directed by James Cameron. In 2029, the war between humans and the machines of the malevolent rogue AI Skynet has reduced the Earth to a scorched wasteland.
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John Connor ( Edward Furlong) lives with his foster parents Todd ( Xander Berkeley) and Janelle Voight ( Jenette Goldstein) and leaves on his bike with his friend Tim ( Danny Cooksey ). Sarah is in Pescadero State Hospital as nobody believes her narration of the first Terminator movie.
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Jul 3, 1991 · Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.
