Terminator 2

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY O M I T T E DS C E N E S EXTENDED FUTURE WAR SARAH'S E.C.T. MISSILE DREAM SALCEDA'S DEATH GANT RANCH DYSON'S VISION by James Cameron and William Wisher ---------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED FUTURE WAR 5/10/90 The original 5/10/90 draft contained an extended future war scene that not only addressed the defeat of Skynet and the backstory of how Reese and the Terminator went back through time as mentioned in the first film, but also the backstory of the second film on how the second Terminator was sent through.Cut from the script after the first draft, the scene -- although rich in action and resonance to the first film and its concepts -- was a narrative tangent to the main story of the film and would have cost an inordinate amount of time, money, and effort to produce.This future scene also had the adult John Connor as its narrator. EXT.CITY STREET - DAY Downtown L.A.Noon on a hot summer day.On an EXTREME LONG LENS the lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity.In SLOW MOTION they move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper.Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces.The image is surreal dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to... DISSOLVE TO: EXT.CITY RUINS - DAY Same spot as the last shot, but now it is a frozen landscape in Hell.The cars are stopped in rusted rows, still bumper to bumper.