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Editor says, how come Rutger Hauer didn't get to play the Terminator? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
This story was published in the November 2011 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1983, on this day filming of The Terminator resumed in Toronto with the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer recast in the title role.
Filming of "The Terminator" Resumes in TorontoThe future of the movie had been thrown into jeopardy when producer Dino De Laurentiis applied an option in Arnold Schwarzenegger's contract that would make him unattainable for nine months while he was filming Conan the Destroyer. Director Cameron was then contracted to write the script for Rambo: First Blood Part II and had also initiated a series of intense meetings with producers David Giler and Walter Hill to discuss a sequel to Alien. The Terminator Project was unravelling .. fast.
A tour de force performance in Blade Runner as the replicant Roy Batty made Hauer the natural choice for the role. But a junior executive at Orion Pictures actually made the connection. Because in the "Time to Die" he utters the famous line "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die".
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Movies Source: Wikipedia Labels: Terminator, Rutger Hauer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron, Orion. Editor says, in this post we explore an idea that arose from a long discussion about home come Michael Biehn was underecognized for his decisive contribution to the movie.
~ Uh, don't you mean "HOW come"? :D
~ Whether it was Schwarzenegger or Hauer in the lead, the Terminator would still have been a hit...the major difference here is that Hauer would have been less likely to run for governor of California. ;)
~ He'd have made a wonderful Terminator, although he couldn't do "inhuman robot" quite as well as Ah-nuld. And, as I understand it, a lot of that last speech in _Blade Runner_ was ad-libbed.,..might he have done something like that for _Terminator?_
Comment from Tracy Milai on Facebook: Maybe Rutger would have been Gov of Ca-lee-forn-a?
Comment from George Nolan on Facebook: What if Kurt Russel played the Terminator.......
Comment from Alan Abramowitz on Facebook: It would have saved his flundering career
Comment from Arlena Arteaga Kelly on Facebook: I would have watched the movie
~ Kurt Russel would have been better as Kyle Reese.
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