Daily Dialogue — September 6, 2019

“Get down.”

— Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), screenplay by James Cameron, William Wisher

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Shopping Mall. Today’s suggestion by @KahlenBurgwin.

Trivia: Shot in eight months, compared to the first film’s six-week filming schedule. The film was on a tight deadline as it had to be ready for the summer of 1991 to meet its financial commitments. When writer/director James Cameron got the call from Carolco Pictures that the film was officially green-lit, one of the first things he said to his friend and co-writer William Wisher was: “The good news is, we’re making the sequel; the bad news is, we are already several months behind schedule”. They used every available hour to write the initial draft, because Cameron wanted to have a finished screenplay before the Cannes Film Festival, where Carolco would announce the film. He did an all-nighter the day before the festival, and the script was literally printed out while a limousine was waiting to get him to the airport. This actually delayed the plane to Cannes, much to the chagrin of the Carolco delegation inside (which included filmmakers Paul Verhoeven, Oliver Stone and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger). After boarding, Cameron handed the script to Schwarzenegger and producer Mario Kassar, and immediately fell asleep for the entire duration of the flight.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The Terminator vs. T-1000 in a shopping mall.