July 1991. Fangoria #104 delivers a fantastic magazine issue with great cover, featuring the then omni-present iconic promotional image, as well as very good interview with Terminator 2: Judgment Day's co-writer, William Wisher.
Wisher gives a fantastic, in-depth interview here and talks about the entire writing and story developing process, beginning with Jim Cameron calling him and then meeting with him, and handing him a very old paper that he wrote years ago about the basic premise of Terminator 2, with the Terminator programmed to protect young John Connor.
He talks about developing Sarah (even gives out an early option of having her traumatically forgotten the whole experience!), John (early on though of simply growing up with his mother, which wasn't as dramatically interesting as being separated, harboring anger and being raised by an unloving foster parents) and the T-1000 (ideas from having two Arnolds to even having someone even bigger, to finally going back to Cameron's original idea). Arnold's T-800 is finally revealed to be a reprogrammed protector this time around.
Wisher mentions his friendship and previous work with Jim on the first movie, and most importantly underlines the fact that the Terminator story is finished with this movie, and the movie by all means was designed as an end:
"This isn't so much a sequel as it is part two of a very fascinating adventure. We've finished the story, and as far as I'm concerned, it should stay finished"
"Everything we had to say about the Terminator has been said. One of the things Jim and I talked a lot about was whether there should be another follow up. And we made our decision in the way we wrote Terminator 2. There are no backdoors in this film. We wrote this movie so that the fat lady sings"
Some great photos featured, and at that point, every magazine had fairly good variety. Some photos repeated in most magazines (like the T-800 with a skinned arm or the T-1000 crashing through the window on the motorcycle), but there were also always photos not seen often or ever before.
Fangoria really delivered, and it shouldn't come off as a surprise since it's parent publisher was Starlog. It's also interesting how different magazines focus on different aspects of the movie. The sci-fi magazines talk about the plot and the characters, while the Entertainment magazines talk about the budgets and behind the scenes.
