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Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The Complete Screenplay
112 pages, Paperback
Published February 27, 2024
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February 25, 2026
How Screenplay differs from Movie: Terminator 2: Judgement Day
-When we first see 10-year-old John Conner, he is working on his bike listening to The Ramones. In movie, he is listening to Guns N Roses.
-John’s friend Tim, is Hispanic in the screenplay. In movie he is a white redhead.
-When we first see Sarah Conner in the Psych Hospital, she has a long scar on her face. Don’t remember that from movie (will confirm)
-Sarah is comatose on meds in hospital and has a dream/hallucination about Kyle. They have a conversation about John and how he is now the target. Kyle is then tough with her about protecting John and walks out of the room. She chases after him and then she starts another dream of the nuclear explosion and the world ending. (deleted scene in movie)
-In the arcade scene in the movie, John’s friend Tim is stopped by Cop Terminator (T-1000). He asks if he has seen John, Tim says “No, I don’t know him!” This was not in screenplay. I am glad it was in movie.
-When John calls his Foster Parents, The T-800 (in John’s voice) asks the T-1000 why Wolfy (the dog) is barking so much. T-1000 says Wolfy is fine, the T-800 knows the parents are dead. The T-1000 then walks outside and kills the dog (off camera) and hold up to the camera the dog collar that says “Max” he now knows that John isn’t coming back. (deleted scene)
-After the T-1000 kills the Foster Parents and Dog, he goes through the house and into John’s room. He finds a box full of cassette tapes and letters/pictures of John and Sarah Conner in combat training. (not in movie: may be deleted)
-When in Pescadaro Hospital, when the T-1000 kills the guard, the guard is at a drinking fountain. In movie he is at a coffee machine and the cups had playing cards on them. He was also talking with the night nurse. He asks her if she wants a coffee, she says “How about a beer?” This was not in screenplay.
-Then T-1000 is getting buzzed in, the guard says to check his gun first. He opens a locker and pretends to put it in but he puts it inside his chest. (not in movie)
-When Sarah, John, & T-800 get away from hospital, the T-1000 goes back to hospital to get a car when we hear Dr. Silberman say frantically “She was right all along” as they give him a sedative. (not in movie: will confirm).
-After the T-800 stiches up Sarah in the closed auto garage, John asks if the Terminator can learn. He says he is on read only mode and they could switch him to write or “learn” mode. The T-800 walks Sarah through how to reach the chip in his head and she pulls it out. The T-800is frozen or “dead”. She takes the chip and is getting ready to smash it. John stops her and convinces her that they need him, and she needs to start following his lead if he is going to be such a great leader. She does and they turn T-800 back on with writing mode. (deleted scene)
-When they hit the road from the auto garage, they stop for food. John is teaching the Terminator things to say but also what a smile is. He has the T-800 work on his smile, and it is very weird and creepy. (deleted scene).
-The T-1000 is sitting in a police car on the side of the road looking through the box of photos and listening to the tapes he took from John’s room. One of the tapes is Sarah speaking to John about always meeting up at Enrique’s airstrip. This is where they have stored all guns and supplies.
-After the T-8 (Terminator) lowers himself in the lava, the end of the movie is a different voiceover. In the movie Sarah talks about the future finally being uncertain and leaves it open for another movie or to the viewer’s interpretation. The screenplay has a voiceover of Sarah talking about how Judgment Day never came and she still has all these feelings and memories of it. We then see her sitting in a park (now 64 years old), watching John (now in his 40’s) with his 2 kids. John is now working for the Defense Department in Washington making sure nothing like Skynet happens. John looks good, no scars or eye patch. Sarah’s granddaughter then asked Sarah to tie her shoe. She does and then ruffles her hair, smiling finally! I liked the screenplay ending better.
-When we first see 10-year-old John Conner, he is working on his bike listening to The Ramones. In movie, he is listening to Guns N Roses.
-John’s friend Tim, is Hispanic in the screenplay. In movie he is a white redhead.
-When we first see Sarah Conner in the Psych Hospital, she has a long scar on her face. Don’t remember that from movie (will confirm)
-Sarah is comatose on meds in hospital and has a dream/hallucination about Kyle. They have a conversation about John and how he is now the target. Kyle is then tough with her about protecting John and walks out of the room. She chases after him and then she starts another dream of the nuclear explosion and the world ending. (deleted scene in movie)
-In the arcade scene in the movie, John’s friend Tim is stopped by Cop Terminator (T-1000). He asks if he has seen John, Tim says “No, I don’t know him!” This was not in screenplay. I am glad it was in movie.
-When John calls his Foster Parents, The T-800 (in John’s voice) asks the T-1000 why Wolfy (the dog) is barking so much. T-1000 says Wolfy is fine, the T-800 knows the parents are dead. The T-1000 then walks outside and kills the dog (off camera) and hold up to the camera the dog collar that says “Max” he now knows that John isn’t coming back. (deleted scene)
-After the T-1000 kills the Foster Parents and Dog, he goes through the house and into John’s room. He finds a box full of cassette tapes and letters/pictures of John and Sarah Conner in combat training. (not in movie: may be deleted)
-When in Pescadaro Hospital, when the T-1000 kills the guard, the guard is at a drinking fountain. In movie he is at a coffee machine and the cups had playing cards on them. He was also talking with the night nurse. He asks her if she wants a coffee, she says “How about a beer?” This was not in screenplay.
-Then T-1000 is getting buzzed in, the guard says to check his gun first. He opens a locker and pretends to put it in but he puts it inside his chest. (not in movie)
-When Sarah, John, & T-800 get away from hospital, the T-1000 goes back to hospital to get a car when we hear Dr. Silberman say frantically “She was right all along” as they give him a sedative. (not in movie: will confirm).
-After the T-800 stiches up Sarah in the closed auto garage, John asks if the Terminator can learn. He says he is on read only mode and they could switch him to write or “learn” mode. The T-800 walks Sarah through how to reach the chip in his head and she pulls it out. The T-800is frozen or “dead”. She takes the chip and is getting ready to smash it. John stops her and convinces her that they need him, and she needs to start following his lead if he is going to be such a great leader. She does and they turn T-800 back on with writing mode. (deleted scene)
-When they hit the road from the auto garage, they stop for food. John is teaching the Terminator things to say but also what a smile is. He has the T-800 work on his smile, and it is very weird and creepy. (deleted scene).
-The T-1000 is sitting in a police car on the side of the road looking through the box of photos and listening to the tapes he took from John’s room. One of the tapes is Sarah speaking to John about always meeting up at Enrique’s airstrip. This is where they have stored all guns and supplies.
-After the T-8 (Terminator) lowers himself in the lava, the end of the movie is a different voiceover. In the movie Sarah talks about the future finally being uncertain and leaves it open for another movie or to the viewer’s interpretation. The screenplay has a voiceover of Sarah talking about how Judgment Day never came and she still has all these feelings and memories of it. We then see her sitting in a park (now 64 years old), watching John (now in his 40’s) with his 2 kids. John is now working for the Defense Department in Washington making sure nothing like Skynet happens. John looks good, no scars or eye patch. Sarah’s granddaughter then asked Sarah to tie her shoe. She does and then ruffles her hair, smiling finally! I liked the screenplay ending better.
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