"T2-3D: Battle Across Time T2-3D: Battle Across Time (also known as Terminator 2: 3D and stylized as T2 3-D) is an attraction at Universal Studios Japan, with former locations at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida. The version of the show at Universal Studios Hollywood closed in 2012 and the version at Universal Studios Florida closed in 2017. The attraction is a mini-sequel to """" and reunites director James Cameron and the main cast from the movie, including Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong as John Connor, and Robert Patrick as the T-1000."
"Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. After playing a supporting role in ""Die Hard 2"" (1990), Patrick starred as the T-1000, the main antagonist of """" (1991) – a role he reprised for cameo appearances in ""Wayne's World"" (1992) and ""Last Action Hero"" (1993). Other notable film credits include ""Fire in the Sky"" (1993), ""Striptease"" (1996),"
"emphasize the disparity between the advanced T-1000 and Schwarzenegger's older T-800 (Cameron characterized the two as ""a Porsche"" and ""a human Panzer tank"" respectively). Patrick had previously appeared in the action feature ""Die Hard 2"", but Furlong had no formal acting experience. Joe Morton was picked to portray Miles Dyson, a Cyberdyne scientist who helped develop the new CPU for the T-800 Terminators. Calling themselves T2 Productions, James and co-producers Stephanie Austin and B.J. Rack rented an office in North Hollywood before starting to assemble the crew for ""Terminator 2"". Adam Greenberg, who worked on ""The Terminator"" and ""Ghost"" (1990),"
"""Terminator"" film. It is at this point in the film where it is revealed that the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is now the protector, and ""Austin"" is in fact a new, advanced prototype T-1000 sent to assassinate John. Following a brief scuffle and a lengthy car chase, the T-800 and John escape from the T-1000. The T-1000 is thwarted again at a psychiatric institution, where John and the T-800 rescue John's mother, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), and again escape from him. The T-1000 uses its morphing capabilities to track down John Connor, eliminating any who stand in its way, including John's"
"Terminator (character) The Terminator (also known as T-800 and T-850) is a fictional character from the ""Terminator"" franchise portrayed by both Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous actor stand-ins digitally overlaid with Schwarzenegger's likeness. The Terminator itself is part of a series of machines created by Skynet for infiltration-based assassination missions, and while an android for its appearance resembling a human, it is described as a cybernetic organism consisting of living tissue over a robotic endoskeleton. The first appearance of the Terminator was as the titular antagonist in ""The Terminator"", a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron. While the original"
"Patrick credited his early appearances in films to his ""tough-looking exterior"". Patrick made a short appearance in ""Die Hard 2"" as a bit part henchman for Colonel Stuart before landing a role in """" (1991) as the main villain, the T-1000; it was his first starring role. James Cameron, the film's director, said he chose Patrick for the role because of his physical appearance, which he felt fit the role. During the filming of ""Terminator 2: Judgment Day"", Patrick was ""broke"", living in a cheap apartment with his girlfriend, Barbara, whom he married during filming. He has credited the film"
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science-fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. It is the third installment in the ""Terminator"" film series, following 1991's """", and does not involve James Cameron, who directed and wrote the first two films. After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son John Connor (Stahl) was born, and also failed to kill John as a child, Skynet now sends another Terminator back in time"
"and drives away from him. Patrick also makes a cameo appearance as the T-1000 in ""Last Action Hero"" (1993), when he is seen walking by Schwarzenegger as he enters Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. In the same film, actor Sylvester Stallone is featured as the Terminator on a ""Terminator 2"" poster instead of Schwarzenegger. In ""Hot Shots! Part Deux"" (1993), a caricature of Saddam Hussein is frozen, shattered, and reformed in a direct parody of the T-1000 from the final scene of ""Terminator 2"". The opening credits show four burning horses of a carousel as the allegory of the Four"
"could effectively conceal the Terminator's massive endoskeleton. The teaser trailer for ""Terminator 2"" shows a T-800 having its flesh covering applied by a large industrial mold. Terminator (character) The Terminator (also known as T-800 and T-850) is a fictional character from the ""Terminator"" franchise portrayed by both Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous actor stand-ins digitally overlaid with Schwarzenegger's likeness. The Terminator itself is part of a series of machines created by Skynet for infiltration-based assassination missions, and while an android for its appearance resembling a human, it is described as a cybernetic organism consisting of living tissue over a robotic endoskeleton."
"sequel was that both Terminators sent to the past would be T-800s like the one played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, with one being stripped down to a metal endoskeleton like the one from the original film. Once Cameron actually started working on the script, in 1990, he figured a better way was to turn the evil Terminator into a more advanced model. Cameron's original pick to play the T-1000 was rock musician Billy Idol, and storyboards had the robot resembling him, but a serious motorcycle accident prevented Idol from accepting the role. Then, he thought of casting actor Michael Biehn, who"
"original 1984 film. The fifth installment, ""Terminator Genisys,"" Schwarzenegger plays an aging T-800 Model 101 (reprogrammed by an unknown party) and becomes a mentor and father figure to a young Sarah Connor of an alternate timeline, and Brett Azar portrays the original Terminator from the first film, with Schwarzenegger's then-likeness utilized via CGI. Schwarzenegger and Azar will reprise their roles in the sixth film. The original T-800 is sent to terminate a single target, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), in 1984, to prevent the birth of her son, John, the future leader of the Human Resistance. It survives superficial damage from"
"T-3000 The T-3000 is a fictional cyborg assassin, serving as the primary antagonist in ""Terminator Genisys"", the fifth installment in the ""Terminator"" series, portrayed by Jason Clarke. In the film, the T-3000 is an alternate timeline counterpart of Skynet's (portrayed by Matt Smith) nemesis John Connor (also portrayed by Clarke), created after Skynet infects a variant of Connor with nanotechnology and fractures the timeline. T-3000 also serves as a foil personality to ""Guardian"" (a reprogrammed T-800 portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger), a protagonist who is somewhat similar to T-3000 but also opposite in many ways, of their relationship dynamics with Sarah"
"avatar for itself in the form of a T-5000 (Matt Smith). This Terminator travels through many timelines searching for a way to defeat the Human Resistance and ultimately infiltrates it under the guise of a fighter named Alex. ""Alex"" is present as a soldier when John Connor and Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) discover Skynet's time machine at the end of the war with the machines. As Kyle is being sent back in time to protect John's mother Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from the T-800 Terminator sent to kill her in 1984, ""Alex"" carries out his attack. He kills all of"
"attacked by a T-X Terminator (Kristanna Loken), which was sent from the future. Unlike its predecessors, the T-X's objective was to terminate his future officers as secondary targets because John's location was unknown. When it encounters John it changes its priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. A protector T-850 (Schwarzenegger), who is a doppelgänger of John's previous protector, is also sent back in time to protect him, explaining that Judgment Day had only been delayed to July 25, 2004, which happens to be only hours away. The T-850 also states that it was not sent from the future"
"Terminator (franchise) The Terminator series is an American science-fiction franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. It encompasses a series of films, comics, novels, and additional media concerning battles between Skynet's synthetic intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race. Skynet's most well-known products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models, such as the T-800 (Model 101), who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the original film in 1984, and similar units he also portrayed in the later films. As of February 2010, the franchise has generated $3 billion"
"rescue a man named David Weston (Sean Cory Cooper), until they team up with Angie Salter (Rose McGowan) and Barnes (Common) to fight the machines. Edward Furlong reprises his role from ""Terminator 2"" in this Universal Studios attraction. Set six years after the events of the second film, John and Sarah once again attempt to prevent Judgment Day by infiltrating Cyberdyne to prevent the completion of Skynet. They interrupt Kimberley Duncan's presentation of the T-70 Terminators and attempt to evacuate the facility, but the T-1000 arrives and nearly terminates them. However, the T-800 arrives from the future and saves them."
"distributed the film. Hurd and Cameron were married from 1985 to 1989. For the role of the Terminator, Cameron envisioned a man who was not exceptionally muscular, who could ""blend into"" a crowd. Lance Henriksen, who had starred in ""Piranha II: The Spawning"", was considered for the title role, but when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Cameron first met over lunch to discuss Schwarzenegger's playing the role of Kyle Reese, both came to the conclusion that the cyborg villain would be the more compelling role for the Austrian bodybuilder; Henriksen got the smaller part of LAPD detective Hal Vukovich and the role"
"Byung-hun portrays a T-1000 in ""Terminator Genisys"". In the film, it is revealed that a T-1000 was sent back to terminate Sarah Connor (portrayed by Willa Taylor as a child) at Big Bear Lake in 1973. It kills her parents but she escaped, and is subsequently found by a reprogrammed T-800 (Brett Azar with Schwarzenegger's digitally de-aged head superimposed on top), sent by an unknown party to be her guardian. The subsequent arrivals of the two androids effectively alters the course of Sarah's life. Eleven years later, in the form of an Asian American LAPD police officer, the T-1000 intercepts"
"which features Austin digging up at the desert, uncovering his customized ""Smoking Skull"" championship belt and putting it over his shoulder, before turning his head, just to stare down and at the camera. On July 27, 2015, 2K announced that Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 Terminator (both ""The Terminator"" and """" versions) will be a playable character available as a pre-order exclusive. On the same day, the second trailer featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Daniel Bryan, Eva Marie, Paige, Finn Bálor and Dean Ambrose was released to promote the inclusion of the Terminator character in the game. The trailer was a re-enactment of the"
"The Terminator The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Connor. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, while co-writer William Wisher Jr. received a credit for additional dialogue. Executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of"
"PS2 version. A first-person shooter titled """" was released for the PC. A third game, titled """", was released for Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo GameCube. 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: Rise of the Machines Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science-fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. It"
"music for when Reese and Connor escape from the police station that would be appropriate for a ""heroic moment"". Cameron turned down this theme, as he believed it would lose the audience's excitement. The Terminator The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier from the future sent back in time"
"using his technology. In the third film, a Model 101 is again portrayed as the protagonist, this time protecting John Connor (Nick Stahl) and his future wife Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) from a T-X (Kristanna Loken). Being a T-850, it is slightly different from the earlier T-800 models that the Connors had encountered. He tells John that his efforts in the second film did not stop Judgment Day, but merely delayed it. They are also running from Judgment Day, trying again to avert it, but they fail, thanks to the counter-efforts of the T-X, a new, highly advanced Terminator designed"
"(including IGN, TWoP, and ""Total Sci-Fi""s Owen Van Spall) attributed them to this episode's revelation of the Terminators' temporal triangulation ability. Van Spall and TWoP also noted the plot point of the T-888's mission to kill the governor of California. Stark's assassination mission was to take place on New Year's Eve 2010, at which time Arnold Schwarzenegger would still be the Californian governor (leaving office in January 2011); Schwarzenegger is the star of the first three ""Terminator"" films in the franchise, having premiered the role in 1984. Self Made Man (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) ""Self Made Man"" is the"
"a nuclear holocaust, John struggles to become the leader of humanity to which he is destined. In this future, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington, who was personally recommended by James Cameron) has somehow altered it, and the T-101 (Roland Kickinger with CG-rendered facial likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger) is coming online sooner than expected. The film also involves Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and how he became the man he was in the first film. The film also stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Michael Ironside and Helena Bonham Carter. ""Terminator Genisys"" is the fifth installment of the franchise, and, in addition,"
"Series 70 Autonomous Infantry Unit). Once guests are seated, they are told to put on their ""safety visors"" to watch a demonstration of the Terminators in action. After this brief demonstration, John and Sarah arrive and disrupt the proceedings. However, they are confronted by a T-1000 Terminator from the future whom they engage with automatic-weapons. Kimberley Duncan is killed by the T-1000 while attempting to stop him, mistaking him as a police officer. A second Terminator, portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, bursts through the movie screen through a ""time portal"" on his signature Harley-Davidson motorcycle – via actual actor/stunt double riding"
"the Terminator had spent some time working in construction, implying that it had become operational in time for it to regularly interact with humans. It has been shown that Terminators' flesh coverings are somehow grown identically, producing many multiple copies of exactly the same physical appearance, indicating the use of specific physical templates for different variations of a model or series The most well known is that worn by multiple T-800/850 Model 101 units portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger; a scene in """" displays a memory of a T-888 model, referred to as ""Vick"", facing a room (presumably in the factory"
"T-X T-X (referred to as the Terminatrix in some appearances) is the name of a fictional character who appears in the ""Terminator"" franchise. The T-X model is a gynoid assassin with a human-female appearance. The character was introduced as the main antagonist in the 2003 film """", portrayed by Kristanna Loken. The T-X has the ability to assume the appearance of other characters; therefore, several other cast members occasionally portrayed the T-X throughout the film. This ability to shapeshift is similar to that of the T-1000, the main antagonist of """". The T-X was designed by Stan Winston and his"
"each ""model"". The ""Terminator"" title has also been used as a generic name for other human-simulating characters in the ""Terminator"" universe, such as the liquid metal shapeshifting T-1000 antagonist in the sequel """" and a T-850 in the sequel """". The end credits of the first three ""Terminator"" films list Schwarzenegger's character as simply ""The Terminator"", while in ""Terminator Genisys"", he is credited as ""Guardian"". In ""Terminator Salvation"", a Terminator resembling Schwarzenegger created via facial CGI—used because Schwarzenegger's duties at the time as Governor of California prevented him from working on the film—over Roland Kickinger's on-set performance is credited as"
"Sarah Connor, in the 1984 film ""The Terminator"". He starred in two other films directed by James Cameron: ""Aliens"" (as Corporal Hicks) and ""The Abyss"" (as Lieutenant Hiram Coffey), and had a small role in """", briefly reprising role as Reese in a scene cut from the final film but restored for the Director's Cut version. He was considered to portray the film's antagonist, the T-1000, but the role ultimately went to Robert Patrick. In an early draft of ""Alien 3"" written by William Gibson, Biehn's character Hicks (who had survived the events of ""Aliens"") was to become the protagonist,"
"with partner Jonathan Bates. Kristanna Loken Kristanna Loken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles in the films """" (2003), ""BloodRayne"" (2005) and ""Bounty Killer"" (2013) and on the TV series ""Painkiller Jane"" (2007), ""The L Word"" (2007–2008) and ""Burn Notice"" (2011–2012). Loken was born in Ghent, New York, the daughter of Rande (née Porath), a model, and Merlin ""Chris"" Loken, a writer and apple farmer. She is of half German and half Norwegian ancestry. Her parents were from Wisconsin. She grew up on her parents' fruit farm in Upstate"
"different appearances from Schwarzenegger, the T-70 from """" and the female I-950 from """". Terminator (character concept) In the ""Terminator"" film series, a terminator is an autonomous killer robot, typically humanoid, originally conceived as a virtually indestructible soldier, infiltrator and assassin. James Cameron introduced the first Terminator character in the 1984 film ""The Terminator"", featuring a single android simply called ""The Terminator"", portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When later ""Terminator"" films introduced additional models, some sources retroactively gave Schwarzenegger's character a model number, leading to multiple conflicting names. In the ""Terminator"" universe, a Terminator is a relentless cyborg assassin and soldier,"
"killing him. One is sent to infiltrate the human resistance, the other sent through time to kill John Connor as outlined in the ""Terminator 2"" movie. In the simultaneously published ""Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Cybernetic Dawn"", set just after the film, a female T-1000 and two T-800s come to the present to make sure the creation of Skynet happens as planned. In the second crossover between Terminator and Robocop, the T-1000 plays a fairly significant role. It's the same model as from ""Terminator 2: Judgment Day"". His role is not changed, he still intends to kill John Connor, but"