Who created the original "Terminator" story and where did the idea com!


Question: I'm talking about the original story that led to the 1984 movie "The Terminator". If James Cameron really did create the whole story idea, then where and how did he get the idea from?


Answers: I'm talking about the original story that led to the 1984 movie "The Terminator". If James Cameron really did create the whole story idea, then where and how did he get the idea from?

These tidbits are listed under the trivia section on imdb. It seems Cameron was sued at one point for his story being too close to an Outer Limits episode.

Science fiction author Harlan Ellison sued James Cameron, claiming that the film was plagiarized from the two "The Outer Limits" (1963) episodes that Ellison wrote, namely "The Outer Limits: Soldier (#2.1)" (1964) and "The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand (#2.5)" (1964). The concept of "Skynet" could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." The suit was settled out of court and newer prints of the film acknowledge Ellison.


The initial draft for the movie was sold to James Cameron's wife, Gale Anne Hurd for the price of $1 only.


James Cameron got the idea for The Terminator (1984) while shooting another film in Europe. His vision was of a metal endoskeleton emerging from flames and most of the script was written backwards from there. The endoskeleton would have to be futuristic, and Cameron couldn't afford to set the film in the future. The solution was to bring the future to the present, hence the 'time travel' aspect of the script was written in.

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I am sure the idea originally came from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

James Cameron said that he had a fever one day and he had this dream about a metal robot rising out of the fire. This gave the idea for the film.



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