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Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends Bill Wisher and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. While Frakes was in the U.S. Army, he was stationed in Europe, where he edited the newspaper for the 16th Signal Battalion.
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Randall Frakes is an American author who wrote the novelizations The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Official "About the Author" section in the back of the 1991 novel Terminator 2: Judgment Day:
Randall Frakes worked as editor of the Army’s 16th Signal Battalion newspaper while stationed in Europe, during which time he won the Stars and Stripes journalism award for an investigative report on conditions at Mannheim stockade.
After returning to civilian life, Frakes studied film writing and production at Columbia College in Los Angeles and supported himself by writing fiction for Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Fantastic magazines.
After college, he worked as a cameraman for Roger Corman in Venice, California, creating photographic effects for Escape from New York, Battle Beyond the Stars, and Galaxy of Terror.
He eventually went back to writing, collaborating with his writing partner, William Wisher, on the screenplay Last Thirty Days of Liberty, and the novelization for James Cameron’s The Terminator.
Frakes also co-produced and wrote a futuristic comedy adventure, Hell Comes to Frogtown, and the script for Marvel Comics’ dark superhero “Deathlok.”
•Randall Frakes on the Internet Movie Database
•Q&A With Randall Frakes on JamesCameronOnline.com
1.Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Randall Frakes. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
The Terminator is a novelization of the film The Terminator and written by Randall Frakes and Bill Wisher. "More deadly than any man alive." The time is now...but he comes from the Year of Darkness, 2029. He was created to reshape the future by destroying the present.
Randall Frakes is known for Escape from New York (1981), Aliens (1986) and Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988).
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Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer best known for James Cameron fans for his work with long-time friends, Bill Wisher, and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day novelizations. While Frakes was in the U.S. Army, he was stationed in Europe, where he edited the newspaper for the 16th Signal Battalion.
May 13, 2016 · Randall Frakes: Yes, Roller Blade, a strange, improvised conception about roller-skating nuns with healing powers trying to bring order and love back to a ravaged, brutal world.
Randall Frakes is known for Escape from New York (1981), Aliens (1986) and Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988).
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