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Nov 30, 2021 · Cameron would go on to direct "Aliens" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," two of the greatest movie sequels of all time, as well as "Titanic" and "Avatar," two of the three highest-grossing films ...
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The page is a list of fictions which inspired by the Terminator franchise.
•Alien Terminator (1995): Related in name only and involves a robotic alien creation going around exterminating civilians.
•"Almost Human" (2013-2014): Short-lived TV series with elements of Terminator, Minority Report, Robocop, Die Hard, The Bourne Identity and Blade Runner.
•American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
•Assassin (1986)
•"Battlestar Galactica" (2004): Reimagining that has the Cylon villains bare some resemblance to the Terminators. The original show was also cited as being a blatant Star Wars rip-off. Ironically, Terminator: Salvation, the fourth film in the franchise, has also been noted as borrowing from this rebooted series.
•Caprica: Pitched as The Matrix meets The Terminator, this spin-off of the updated "Battlestar Galactica" also bears some resemblance to Blade Runner.
•Cherry 2000
•Chopping Mall (A.K.A. Kill Bots): In this slasher film, teens are stalked by killer robots in a shopping mall. The film's bots were also designed by some of the same special effects for for 1984's The Terminator.
•Class of 1999
•Crash and Burn
•Cyber Tracker
•Death Machine: 1994 action-horror thriller with many elements similar to Terminator, Aliens and Die Hard.
•Dead by Midnight
•Eliminators (1986)
•Enthiran
•Eve of Destruction
•Evolver: Virtual science fiction film that references The Terminator, Robocop, The Last Starfighter, Weird Science, C.H.O.M.P.S. and Short Circuit 1 and 2.
•Future War (1997): Low-budget direct-to-video film infamous for being featured on the long-running movie-mocking comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film itself is virtually a mash-up of Terminator and Jurassic Park.
•Hands of Steel (1986)
•Hardware (1990): Acclaimed indie science fiction thriller noted as containing many of the same elements and aspects to Alien and Terminator.
•Heatseeker
•The Hit List (2011): Action thriller that rips off scenes from the 2004 crime thriller Collateral and concludes with a police station shoot-out very similar to the original Terminator film.
•I Come in Peace (A.K.A. Dark Angel)
- The idea came from a fever dream. Some films begin with a story, while others begin with an image. In the case of The Terminator, it was definitely the latter.
- O.J. Simpson and Lance Henriksen almost played the Terminator. With the idea set in their minds, Cameron and Hurd collaborated on the film's script, then began to shop it around to studios as a low-budget, guerrilla-style film that Cameron would direct and Hurd would produce.
- Schwarzenegger accidentally won his role over lunch. Even if he didn't agree with Medavoy's idea of casting Schwarzenegger as Kyle Reese, Cameron knew he would have trouble getting around it.
- Sting was offered $350K to play Kyle Reese. With Schwarzenegger in the title role, the part of Kyle Reese — the freedom fighter who travels back in time to save Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) so she can be the mother to resistance leader John Connor, who turns out to be his son — was left unfilled.
The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels and additional media, concerning a total war between Skynet 's synthetic intelligence – a self-aware military machine network – and John Connor 's Resistance forces comprising the survivors of the human race.
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- List of comics
- Adam Greenberg
- The Terminator (1984)
Jul 1, 2015 · Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator. Orion/The Kobal Collection. In 1984, a $6.4 million sci-fi chase flick by a skinny 29-year-old whose prior feature directing credit was a T&A horror...
May 20, 2009 · For inspiration, he drew on two stories from science fiction legend Harlan Ellison written for The Outer Limits. The first was Demon with a Glass Hand, an episode about Trent, a man in the...
Inspired by director John Carpenter, who had made the slasher film Halloween (1978) on a low budget, Cameron used the dream as a "launching pad" to write a slasher-style film. [7] Cameron's agent disliked the early concept of the horror film and requested that he work on something else.
