The Last Action Heroes: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

To celebrate the launch of his new book THE LAST ACTION HEROES, author Nick de Semlyen presents this special screening of TERMINATOR 2 preceded by a discussion with Nick's Empire colleague James Dyer and followed by a book signing.

The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-800 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000.

The Last Action Heroes is wildly entertaining account of the golden age of the action movie charts Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s carnage-packed journey from enmity to friendship against the backdrop of Reagan’s America and the Cold War. Revealing fascinating untold stories of the colourful characters who ascended in their wake – high-kickers Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan, glowering tough guys Dolph Lundgren and Steven Seagal, and quipping troublemakers Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis – it tells the story of how the era of the invincible action hero who used muscle, martial arts or the perfect weapon to save the day began to fade. And how, when Jurassic Park trounced Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero in 1993, the glory days of these macho men – and the vision of masculinity they celebrated – were officially over.

The book is released August 24th.