It may come off as surprising that months after the heavy coverage on Terminator 2: Judgment Day has started (June '91), Fangoria #107 issue from October of 1991 is the first one, not counting Cinefex, to have a feature article on Stan Winston and his work on T2.
Fangoria conducted an interview with Winston and his three key crewmembers, John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan and Richard Landon, a week before the movie hot theaters. Winston and his guys talk about how T2 is the hardest movie they ever worked on (and they consider it as such to this day), and go through all the major gags on the film that they did. While all of it is covered in Cinefex in great detail, there's always stuff that hasn't been said before. Here, for the first time, they officially confirmed that the hands on the endoskeletons were redesigned from the original. While most of what is said in the article is a "common knowledge" for T2 fans nowadays, it's a good, condensed overview of how Winston's effects were done in T2, and a first spotlight for the Winston Studios' work on the picture. Amazingly, Stan already mentions his upcoming prep for Jurassic Park!
The article also provides terrific, never before published pictures. The photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger looking in the mirror in the last stage makeup looks fantastic, and there is a particularly gory, even more so than in the film, angle on the Terminator slicing his arm open
Back to Terminator Trilogy
