For fans of the “Terminator” franchise, the second film in the series is widely considered to be the best, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s killing-machine cyborg is programmed to protect John Connor, not kill him.
The idea of transforming the character from villain to hero, however, initially didn’t meet with Schwarzenegger’s seal of approval.
Schwarzenegger recently appeared at a panel at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ahead of a screening of “Terminator 2”, where he revealed that his intense rivalry with fellow action hero Sylvester Stallone at the time led him to push for a very different kind of movie. READ MORE: Arnold Schwarzenegger Didn’t Want To Say ‘I’ll Be Back’ In ‘The Terminator’: ‘I Was Not Comfortable’ “The reason why it became a big hit was, number one, Jim Cameron.
Jim Cameron is a genius writer,” Schwarzenegger said during the panel, as reported by Deadline. “He came up with this brilliant idea, even though at the beginning I was suspicious.
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