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Rights purchase; true production cost; Fontana steel mill; Linda Hamilton's twin sister; elevator hearing damage; miniature Los Angeles; special edition footage; Rodney King proximity; dog-food sound effect; Stanton twins; Cameron-Hamilton relationship; crew T-shirts; Furlong eye injury
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- The film was delayed by CGI limits and a rights dispute: Hemdale owned half and didn't want a sequel, Carolco did, and Mario Kassar paid the struggling Hemdale $5 million for the franchise before it made 520.
- 80s action producers seemed like arms dealers; Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna were covered on the First Blood episode.
- The shoot itself cost about $51 million inside a roughly $100 million budget because of payments to Arnold, Cameron and rights holders.
- A national search picked the dormant Kaiser steel mill in Fontana, California for the climax.
- Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie was used whenever two Sarahs appear.
- Hamilton damaged her hearing firing the gun in the elevator after forgetting her earplug.
- The nuclear nightmare used a large-scale miniature Los Angeles.
- The special edition added 15 minutes, including Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in a dream sequence.
- The biker bar scene was filmed across the street from the Rodney King beating, on that same night, as Cameron told it.
- The sound of the T-1000 passing through the bars was an inverted can of dog food oozing out.
- The twin security guards were Don and Dan Stanton, also in Gremlins 2.
- Cameron and Hamilton began a relationship during the film while he was divorcing Bigelow; they later married and divorced.
- Cameron's perfectionism made crew members wear 'Terminator 3: not with me' shirts.
- In one motorcycle take Schwarzenegger accidentally hit Furlong in the eye with the shotgun, stopping filming.