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 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as Terminator 3 or T3) is a 2003 American science-fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. It is the third installment in the "Terminator" film series, following 1991's "", and does not involve James Cameron, who directed and wrote the first two films. After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son John Connor (Stahl) was born, and also failed to kill John as a child, Skynet now sends another Terminator back in time