When Terminator leaves the screen and fights in the middle of Montreuil

• On 700 m2, Dream Factory has recreated the sets from

  Terminator 2

  .

  In the middle, 16 actors replay the film with spectators “2 cm from them”.

• For 3 hours, the T-800, John Connor and Sarah Connor try to escape the T-1000.

• The public is also an actor with missions to accomplish on the sidelines of the scenes of James Cameron's film.

"I'll be back.

The Terminator gimmick is greeted with a round of shouts and applause.

Followed by 130 pairs of eyes, the T-800 made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger comes out of the room to shoot the police who surround the premises of Cyberdyne Systems.

A departure that takes place through the corridor of the Pescadero psychiatric hospital.

At the end of it, on the left, we fall into the biker bar The Corral where the T-800 has arrived stark naked and bulging pecs.

Opposite, the foundry where the T-1000 will perish.

On 700 m², in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), Dream Factory has reproduced the sets of

and offers with the show

an immersive cinema experience (3 hours).

"The spectators are on the film set and at the same time on stage", explains Grégoire Nedelcovivi, co-founder and creative director of Dream Factory.

For the actors to find themselves in the middle of 130 people is an exercise in "tightrope walking", according to Alexis "Terminator" Driollet.

“We hear people repeat before us what we are going to say.

You have to be very focused.

We also perceive all their reactions, they are glued to us ”.

This proximity also requires a part of improvisation.

“The scenes are set but an actor can be prevented from passing, arrives late, it has a funny side, with suspense”, continues the sculptural actor.

"People are so close that you can test things with them," says Dorit, who plays Sarah Connor.

“We feel the benevolence of the public”, underlines Alexis Driollet.

To each spectator, his mission

To apprehend the presence of the public, the 32 actors and actresses of

(two for each role) had "a week of stunts" in addition to rehearsals for the texts and the movements, "so that they are not afraid of the public, to have people 2 cm away from them and invite them to play", lists Elza Calmat, co-founder and director of Dream Factory.

Because the public is also an actor.

From the boarding hatch before joining the stage, members of the resistance give each spectator a mission.

“People are proactive, they participate in creation, says Grégoire Nedelcovivi.

Everyone will have their own experience.

Indeed the missions spice up the evening, oblige to go talk to the actors, to visit the set but in the end, we do not really know what they are for.

Inspired by the video game

, they still need to be better inserted into the scenario.

Dream Factory feeds on spectator feedback to improve the

.

The company aims to carry out this immersive cinema project until April 2023. “Hasta la vista baby!

“, as Terminator would say under the cries and the applause of the spectators.

“No Fate – Terminator 2: Judgment Day”.

Tour Orion, 5, rue Kléber in Montreuil (metro Croix de Chavaux).

From Thursday to Sunday.

Full price: 65 euros, 12-16 years old and student: 50 euros, group (from 5 people): 55 euros.

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Why Terminator 2?

Dream Factory decided to adapt

in immersive cinema because the film has a community of fans.

“For some, it's a Proust madeleine,” says Alexis Driollet.

But also because the rights belong to Canal+.

The encrypted channel via StudioCanal produced James Cameron's blockbuster and responded favorably to the Dream Factory project.

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