Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Years after T2, John Connor lives off the grid. Judgment Day never came in 1997, and his mother died of leukemia. Skynet sends the T-X, a Terminator that can control other machines, to kill John and future Resistance leaders, including veterinarian Kate Brewster. A reprogrammed T-850 arrives to protect them both and reveals that Kate will be John's wife. Her father, General Robert Brewster, runs the Skynet project and, pushed by a virus spreading through the networks, switches it on. Skynet takes over and the general dies. The Terminator destroys the T-X with its last power cell. John and Kate reach Crystal Peak thinking they can shut Skynet down. It's just an old shelter. The bombs fall, and John answers the radio as a leader.

1. Behind the scenesLinda Hamilton passed

   Linda Hamilton turned it down. She felt the part was disposable: Sarah died halfway through, with no time to mourn her.

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2. Behind the scenesNick Stahl replaces Furlong

   Edward Furlong was signed to return as John. The studio dropped him over his publicized drug problems, and the part went to Nick Stahl.

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3. CameoDr. Silberman, again

   Earl Boen returns as Dr. Peter Silberman, the psychiatrist who never believed Sarah in the first two films.

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4. Behind the scenesA 100-ton crane

   In the chase, the T-X drives a 100-ton crane through the streets with the Terminator hanging off its arm. Arnold did many of his own stunts.

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5. Behind the scenesTen thousand T-X hopefuls

   About 10,000 women auditioned for the T-X. Kristanna Loken trained for six weeks, put on 14 pounds of muscle and took mime classes to move like a machine.

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