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Memorable moments from a storied history90 Years of THR
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 80 OCTOBER 30, 2019
TRISTAR PICTURES/PHOTOFESTTop: James Cameron on the set of 1991’s Te r m i n a to r 2 with Linda Hamilton (as Sarah Connor). Above right: THR’s review ran opening day: Oct. 26, 1984.With the release of Terminator:
Dark Fate on Nov. 1, the merce-
nary brought to life by Arnold
Schwarzenegger proves again to
be one resilient robot. Dark Fate —
which reunites Schwarzenegger
with Linda Hamilton, who last
appeared in the franchise in 1991’s
Terminator 2: Judgment Day — is
the fifth sequel spawned by 1984’s
The Terminator (and the first since
T2 produced by James Cameron).
Schwarzenegger, who was just
coming off the success of Conan
the Barbarian, thought it an iffy
career move to play the emotion-
less killer. “There was no question
it was a gamble,” says Lou Pitt, his
agent at the time. “But it had the
potential to take his career to a
different place and another level.”
The Austrian bodybuilder, then
37, was wooed into the role by
director Cameron, then 30, who
he described as “a skinny, intense
guy” in his 2012 autobiography
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True
Life Story. (This was Cameron’s
second time directing a feature;
it came after Piranha II: The
Spawning, which had a $150,000
budget.) The Hollywood Reporter
liked Cameron’s casting choices.
The first line of THR’s rave review
was: “No doubt about it: Arnold
Schwarzenegger was born to play
‘The Terminator.’ ” Later, the
review praises Hamilton’s “tre-
mendous resiliency.” Arnie liked
that he’d be paid $750,000, or
$1.8 million in today’s dollars —
but was less thrilled that he’d have
only 17 lines of dialogue and that
much of the shooting would bedone at night. He wrote that the
after-dark schedule was because
“control freaks like Jim are big
fans of night shooting. It gives
you total control over the lighting
because you create it.” The Orion
release’s budget was $6.4 million
($16 million today) and it grossed
$78 million worldwide ($193 mil-
lion currently). Altogether, theTe r m i n a t o r films have grossed
$1.2 billion, according to Box
Office Mojo. They also produced
a marriage — between Cameron
and Hamilton, in 1997. The duo
divorced two years later, with
Hamilton, in a 2010 interview in
U.K. magazine The Lady, calling
their time spent together “terrible
on every level.” — BILL HIGGINSIn ’84, Ter minator Arrived (and Kept Coming Back)
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