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October 2, 1996
Arnold considered playing the terminator once again for reportedly $45 million (the
highest up-front salary in the history of motion pictures). T3 won't be made before 1999.
The entire film will take place in the future with the siege of Skynet. Schwarzenegger has
always maintained he wouldn't do sequels - he didn't for the hit sci-fi Predator - and
kept his word until Terminator director James Cameron seduced him with a script he
couldn't say no to in Terminator 2, which became one of the first $200-million-plus hits
of the '90s.
Since then, Arnie has steadfastly refused all offers for sequels. But studio sources told
British online magazine Vibe that the superstar has changed his mind about Terminator
after filming a sequence for the Terminator theme ride at Florida's Universal Studios. The
mag reports Schwarzenegger will do a second sequel - if the script is up to snuff. But
even if it's green lights all round, a Terminator film won't hit screens until at least
1998 - Cameron is comitted to Titanic until at least next July. Once a script is finished
that earns the approval of both Cameron and Schwarzenegger, Hollywood sources say the
effects needed to make a third Terminator worthy of the series would still take up to two
years to film.
Friday, October 2, 1998
The director of End of Days, Marcus Nispel, was fired and the production was put on
hold. All New York photography (of which I was to be gainfully employed by through
December) has been ceased, and the crew has been released. A new director was then being
sought. The reasons were the following: "The director was not behaving in a
professional or rational manner when it came to fiscal issues in relation to the shooting
schedule and the budget. The show was well over the $100 million mark, and was steadfastly
increasing. Apparently, the director got on well with Mr. Schwarzennegger, initially. But
when Mr. S and the producers, began to experience his histrionic diva-like behavior (he
threatened to quit almost daily), he was deemed a serious liability and terminated. The
show will go on as Mr. S. has a pay or play deal. The producers are not concerned with the
director, the cachet is Mr. S., and since he's been agreeable throughout this entire
ordeal a new candidate should be annointed soon. The shoot will begin in LA and finish in
New York next spring. With the tantrums and fits the director has thrown (in front of
all), you'd think he'd have an Oscar, or at the very least a SINGLE credit directing a
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