I'm Matt Schrader and this is a special bonus interview episode.

And we're back here again with Bill Wischer in his backyard on the patio.

We first spoke after our first episode and now back to catch up on so much from piranha

two to terminator aliens terminator two for your friend James Cameron and Bill Wischer

of course an incredible screenwriter parts of the terminator the original terminator

and co-writer of terminator two judgment day.

He's also the writer of films like Judge Dredd the 13th warrior and exorcist the beginning

involved in several other several is really underselling it isn't it many many many other

pictures and script back great yeah yeah yeah.

Some regard we all do we all do that yes.

So Bill before we go back to to revisit from piranha two I tell me how

that call from James happened when you learned terminator two was a go.

I remember that one quite well Jim and I were developing something I cannot recall when

it was it never got made so he calls me up one day and you know we're supposed to

get together and he says I got some good news and some bad news and I said well give me

the bad news first and he goes you know that thing that we were going to do he's

that you know we're not going to do that and I said oh okay he goes want to hear the good news

and I go yeah he goes terminator two is go with Mario Kassar and Andy Vanya right and I said oh

wow and he goes I want you to write it with me because there's more bad news and I said what's

that he goes we're already behind schedule so watch your hop in your car and come over

and in the intervening years I think it was about seven years between the terminator and T2

we had kind of talked of you know what ifs right sure and so we kind of worry because it was a

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