

Watch the teaser below:Ī number of storyboard artists began planning out the nightmarish nuclear scenarios based on Cameron’s script. And Skotak was additionally hired as art director on a teaser promo for the film directed by Stan Winston, the film’s mechanical creature effects supervisor, that showcased a factory of terminator parts in development. Interestingly, 4Ward was originally going to further produce a silo missile launch scene but this was deleted during pre-production. “The script was given to us for only so many hours to read because they were trying to keep it hush-hush so all the cool stuff didn’t get immediately in the press and get second guessed.”Ĭameron asked 4Ward which shots they would like to work on, and the nuclear nightmare scene became one that Skotak thought “would be very dramatic and interesting thing to do,” as well as complement a fascination with having grown up during the Cold War era.ĤWard would also contribute to shots in the steel plant featuring the liquid metal blobs that begin to reform into the T-1000 terminator. “Jim gave us the script and I sat over at Lightstorm Entertainment with a guard sitting next to me while I read the script,” recalled Skotak.

4Ward Productions had already had a long history with James Cameron-they contributed to both Aliens and The Abyss-before the director asked them to come on-board Terminator 2.
