James Cameron dreamed up the concept, created backstory to it, wrote the screenplay, storyboarded, designed the machines, the look and directed the movies, but there were other creative forces that were essential that came back crom the first movie to do the second. Let's take a look at the essential creative artists that came together for these two movies
JAMES CAMERON
Jim of course dreamed the image of the Terminator and added backstory to his imagery. He came up with the story, wrote treatment and screenplays and directed both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Not only that but he drew and designed all the future machines from HK Tanks to the Terminator endoskeleton. While designing duties were left to Steve Burg in T2, his job was to add extra details to the surfaces of the Hunter Killers. The new futuristic machines he designed did not make the movie (but found their way to other T2 products). A few other artists were also tasked in designing the T-1000 but eventually its design was settled to Jim's idea of having a nearly featureless humanoid shape.
ADAM GREENBERG
The look and pallette of The Terminator and T2 were such an important part of these stories. The blue hue of the moonlight is an image we constantly recall in our minds when remembering scenes from those movies, more so in T2 on which the budget allowed for more artistic, graphic novel look to it. Both films were lit by the amazing Adam Greenberg, an Oscar winner cinematographer who also got an Oscar nomination for his work on T2
BRAD FIEDEL
Both The Terminator and T2 are the kinds of movies with very specific and defining music. The first movie gains a lot of terror from the always present hum and heartbeat cue, while the second one gains even more scale with a lot of apocalyptic choir and machine-factory-like music, and tender moments become even more moving with Fiedel's ambient score in silent moments
STAN WINSTON
There was a time when Winston's name evoked thoughts of a wizard, and there were times when you could not imagine a Terminator movie without the great multiple Oscar winner Stan Winston and Jim Cameron. Stan's vision and dedication to the story and crafting the characters perfectly complemented Jim's stories. Stan also won an Oscar for his work on T2
MARK GOLDBLATT
Mark edited the first movie and was one of the editors on the second one. According to Cameron, he really got the feel and the flow of those stories and did a perfect job with editing. Mark was nominated for an Oscar for his work on T2
Bill Wisher, a longtime personal friend of James Cameron, co wrote the first movie according to Cameron himself. Jim said that Wisher wrote a lot of police scenes and some Sarah and Ginger scenes, fro which he got an "Additional Dialogue" credit in the movie. Despite the co writing credit, Gale Anne Hurd, according to Cameron did not write a single line and only edited the script which is a typical script editor work. Therefore, William Wisher is the returning co-writer. Bill also starred as the 1L-19 cop in the first film and a man with a camera in the mall in T2.
The miniature and optical effects company did majority of the special effects work in the first film and returned for T2. The company under Gene Warren Jr returned with all of its personnel for a lot of Future War sequences as well as other sequences such as Tanker Chase
If counting the Special Edition, a lot of the cast returned as well: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Earl Boen, Michael Biehn and William Wisher
For T2 3D: Battle Across Time, most of the cast, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, returned, as did Stan Winston and his team of wizards, and Brad Fiedel to score the short film. The cinematography fell to Cameron's Titanic team since he was working on the film at the same time (Oscar winning Russel Carpenter did the cinematography)
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WILLIAM WISHER
Bill Wisher, a longtime personal friend of James Cameron, co wrote the first movie according to Cameron himself. Jim said that Wisher wrote a lot of police scenes and some Sarah and Ginger scenes, fro which he got an "Additional Dialogue" credit in the movie. Despite the co writing credit, Gale Anne Hurd, according to Cameron did not write a single line and only edited the script which is a typical script editor work. Therefore, William Wisher is the returning co-writer. Bill also starred as the 1L-19 cop in the first film and a man with a camera in the mall in T2.
FANTASY II
The miniature and optical effects company did majority of the special effects work in the first film and returned for T2. The company under Gene Warren Jr returned with all of its personnel for a lot of Future War sequences as well as other sequences such as Tanker Chase
If counting the Special Edition, a lot of the cast returned as well: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Earl Boen, Michael Biehn and William Wisher
For T2 3D: Battle Across Time, most of the cast, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, returned, as did Stan Winston and his team of wizards, and Brad Fiedel to score the short film. The cinematography fell to Cameron's Titanic team since he was working on the film at the same time (Oscar winning Russel Carpenter did the cinematography)
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