Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

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The original had many of its original script scenes rewritten and Terminator 2: Judgment Day also lost a lot of sequences during pre-production.

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Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

The original Terminator lost a lot of scenes between script and screen, and the movie’s blockbuster sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day fell victim to the same fate during production. Released in 1984, The Terminator is a slasher infused sci-fi action movie that melded a complex time travel plot with propulsive setpieces and an unforgettable villain in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular robot. Although the movie went through many revisions to make the director’s ambitious vision achievable on a relatively modest budget, The Terminator was a huge hit upon its arrival in cineplexes and audiences were eager to see a sequel.

Avatar helmer James Cameron soon began work on a follow-up, but the second Terminator movie spent years being redrafted and rewritten before it was finally released seven years after the first film. The sequel was worth the wait, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day remains a classic piece of action cinema. However, as was the case earlier in Cameron’s career with the original film, many of his ambitious ideas were beyond the scope even of Judgment Day’s considerably larger budget.

Much like Cameron’s original, Terminator 2 could have turned out very differently if the first draft was the one that went before cameras, as Cameron’s original concept featured no icy cool T-1000, an expanded role for Dyson and an entirely different – though familiar – antagonist. Like the original Terminator, the finished Terminator 2 may be beloved, but Cameron’s sequel underwent significant revisions during filming and some of the missing sequences could have made for incredible viewing, while others were mercifully cut.

Two Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminators

Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

Originally the villain of Judgment Day was another T-800, initially identical to the heroic one and eventually reduced to a metallic skeleton. While the imagery is undeniably striking, Cameron himself feared the idea was simply too gimmicky and that Arnold might be upset at the idea of playing dual roles. There was also the fact that the good and evil T-800s would be evenly matched in terms of fighting abilities, meaning the threat wasn’t being escalated in any major way. This led Cameron and his co-writer William Wisher to opt for the visually striking contrast between the tall original Terminator and the lithe, diminutive T-1000, with the director comparing them to a tank and a porshe respectively.

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A More Diverse Terminator 2 Cast

Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

Shaquille O’Neal was offered the role of a black Terminator in the sequel, and although Rise Of The Machines featured a female T-X, more diverse faces for the robot villains was something it took years for the Terminator franchise to revisit after the star turned it down. Meanwhile, Denzel Washington was approached for Dyson but rejected the role since the character did little more than act scared (leading the creators to cut down the role further). It’s a shame but it’s also hard to argue with Washington’s summation of Dyson’s part even in its original script form. That said, actor Joe Morton would go on to give a great performance in the role.

Kyle Reese As The T-1000

Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

Hard as it is to imagine, the T-1000’s default form was originally not Robert Patrick’s cop but rather the first film’s hero Kyle Reese, played by Michael Biehn. This would have made fighting the villain far worse for an emotionally scarred Sarah, but Cameron felt this would simply be too confusing for viewers. Like the flawed choice to change Terminator: Salvation’s dark ending, it’s less easy to defend those creative fears, as this twist could have been signposted and explained within the film. Later Terminator movies even relied on revealing that characters previously assumed to be human were secretly agents of Skynet for shock value. It’s a shame the twist, later reused to less impressive effect in 2015’s Terminator: Genisys was excised from Terminator 2 where it could have proven effective and tragic for the series heroine Sarah. That said, the absence of a Kyle Reese Terminator led to the creation of the unforgettable liquid metal T-1000, so the change wasn’t a total loss.

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The Gant Camp Attack

Terminator 2 Every Scene Cut From Judgment Day

Originally Travis Gant (the “ex-Beret guy” alluded to by John Connor) had an expanded role that included an attack on his ranch home. One of the more slasher-style sequences from the Terminator sequel, the snipped scene would have seen the T-1000 killing everyone present at camp. Meanwhile, the Salceda Camp sequence that did make it into the finished film also almost included a more violent version of events. In the original version of the Camp attack, Salceda heroically blew himself up to kill the T-1000 and theoretically save everyone – only for the T-1000 to quickly re-form himself without a scratch and find out where John is from the camp’s children anyway. It’s a cold-blooded twist that showcased how effective a villain the T-1000 is, but scenes like that are something Terminator 2 is not short on and the unnecessary death of a character could have been a little too bleak.

Dyson’s Missing Dream Sequence

Terminator 2 originally included a dramatic dream sequence for the death of Dyson, a scene that would have seen him staring at a photo of his family before a nuclear fire consumed it. Dyson would then have seen his family fleeing as he dropped the device on the trigger. It’s a shocking sequence that could have given viewers an insight into the mind of a Terminator character who, although pivotal to the plot of the franchise overall, isn’t given much in the way of depth.

However, while Dyson’s biggest scenes may have been cut from Terminator 2, the shots of the fire that turned his family photo to dust did make it into the finished film as part of the blazes seen in the movie’s opening credits. It’s a shame Dyson didn’t get the expanded role and the creepy sequence was excised but ultimately, like most of the storytelling decisions that went into the making of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, it’s clear the scene was cut both to save on budget and to streamline an already-dense plot, something later Terminator movies could have learned from.

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