T-1000 Actor at the 1992 MTV and Saturn Awards. The T-1000 was ranked #39 in the Online Film Critics Society's 2002 list of the "Top 100 Villains of All Time", and #19 in "Empire"s 2018 recounting of the best cinematic villains. Teaser trailers for "Terminator 2" deliberately withheld the notion that the T-1000 character was the villain. A tagline for the film was ""This time there are "two". Terminator 2."" Prior to the film's release, Robert Patrick was promoted as portraying "Austin", the name on the T-1000's police uniform's ID tag. Writer/director James Cameron stated that his original intention for the
Terminator 2: Judgment Day emphasize the disparity between the advanced T-1000 and Schwarzenegger's older T-800 (Cameron characterized the two as "a Porsche" and "a human Panzer tank" respectively). Patrick had previously appeared in the action feature "Die Hard 2", but Furlong had no formal acting experience. Joe Morton was picked to portray Miles Dyson, a Cyberdyne scientist who helped develop the new CPU for the T-800 Terminators. Calling themselves T2 Productions, James and co-producers Stephanie Austin and B.J. Rack rented an office in North Hollywood before starting to assemble the crew for "Terminator 2". Adam Greenberg, who worked on "The Terminator" and "Ghost" (1990),