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I Thought This Alternate ‘Terminator 2’ Epilogue Was a Joke..
Making the viral waves this Friday evening is an alternate/unused epilogue from James Cameron’s masterful Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But, as proof by the following, a movie doesn’t become a masterpiece overnight. In fact, it takes months and months of post work that begins with the editing process.
Thankfully, Cameron had the common sense to remove this god-awful epilogue that plays like a spoof. Before I read the accompanying article, I thought it was a joke. No joke.
In this scene set three decades after the main events in the movie, an aged Linda Hamilton explains in voiceover that the promised robot apocalypse in 1997 never happened after all.
“There was no judgment day,” Hamilton’s Sarah Connor says in the scene, narrating into a 2027 dictaphone. “People went to work, as they always do, laughed, complained, watched TV, made love. I wanted to run through the street yelling, ‘Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well.’ Instead, I got drunk.”
She goes on to say that “the dark future that never came still exists for me, and it always will, like the traces of a dream.” John Connor, it’s revealed, grew up to become a U.S. Senator, with a daughter of his own.
This is why filmmakers don’t like to share all of their deleted footage – because a lot of it was trimmed directly into the trash bin…
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‘Dracula’ Audio Drama for Audible Will Feature Jonathan Bailey as Dracula and Ella Purnell as Mina
The most iconic vampire of them all is coming back to life with a brand new Dracula audio drama from Audible, and Deadline reveals the cast of the upcoming adaptation this week.
Jonathan Bailey (Wicked: For Good) leads the cast of the English-language Audible Original production as legendary blood-sucker Count Dracula, alongside Ella Purnell (Fallout) as Mina, Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus) as Lucy, Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) as Jonathan Harker, David Jonsson (The Long Walk) as Dr Seward, Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) as Mrs. Westenra, Johnny Flynn (Ripley) as Renfield, Francis Lovehall (A Thousand Blows) as Arthur, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) as Professor Van Helsing.
Deadline notes, “The Audible Original is also being produced in Castilian Spanish, French, German, Italian, LATAM Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese,” each with their own casts.
The English-language version will be directed by Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary)!
“When her fiancé vanishes in Transylvania, Mina Murray pieces together fragments of letters, diary entries and chilling testimony to hunt the predator stalking those she loves, only to discover he’s already hunting her. When Mina’s closest friend Lucy succumbs to his thrall, the enigmatic Professor Van Helsing is summoned to wage war on this unfathomable threat.
“But it is Mina, with her intellect, her resolve, her gift for drawing unseen lines between clues, who may hold the key to stopping this ancient predator—if he hasn’t already found his way inside her mind.”
Expect Dracula to sink his fangs into Audible on October 1, 2026.
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