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Considering the franchise's near-mythic reputation in Hollywood history, sometimes it's easy to forget just how understated and scrappy the dawn of the Terminator franchise really was. Written and directed by James Cameron , the 1984 sci-fi thriller The Terminator married ingenious low-budget filmmaking with a gripping emotional hook.
MATTSON TOMLIN: I think because those first two movies have incredible cinematic moments, but that’s not the most important thing about them. I think the most important thing about them is they actually have this tremendous heartbeat at the center of them. I look at the first one, and the realization that Kyle Reese has had this photo of Sarah Connor, and that he volunteered, traveled through time to be with her. It’s like, 'f—, he loves her.' This is a love story.
On the special features of a special edition T2 steel book they did sometime in the early 2000s, there was this interview where Arnold Schwarzenegger said he kept calling Cameron between 1984 and 1991 saying, “When are we going to do T2?” Over the course of 1984 to 1991, Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes one of the biggest movie stars of all time. What occurred to me was 'had that not happened, a second Terminator would be a much different movie.
TOMLIN: Yeah… the pressure comes from the fact that it’s a franchise that’s 40 years old. People care about it. When I sit down, and I just write a spec script, there’s something that’s very comforting about that, and also very lonely. Nobody knows that I’m working on it, nobody knows what it is. Nobody gives a flying f— about it. If you’re working on something like Terminator, people care. People have primal connections to the characters and the story.
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