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  1. MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Some errant comments from James Cameron got Harlan Ellison a special credit at the end of Terminator. On the home video release of 1984's The Terminator, there is the following credit...

  2. "Soldier" is the first of two episodes of The Outer Limits television series written by Harlan Ellison and is loosely adapted from his 1957 short story "Soldier from Tomorrow." Ellison later brought suit against the producers and distributor of The Terminator (1984) for plagiarism of this episode.

  3. Jul 1, 2015 · The story goes like this: in or around 1984 someone tells Harlan Ellison that they think the script for The Terminator sounds similar to his script for an Outer Limits episode called “Soldier,” which Ellison had actually adapted from his own short story, “Soldier Out of Time.”.

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  5. Nov 6, 2020 · Cameron found Ellison's accusations of Terminator ripping him off to be baseless and opportunistic, and he wanted to fight the suit. Unfortunately, Orion didn't, deciding to settle things with Ellison out of court.

  6. Sep 26, 2010 · The story of the origins of James Cameron's The Terminator, and the original works of Harlan Ellison that it was based upon. For more information, check out M3 - Movies, Music and Microcode...

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  7. Ellison alleged that James Cameron's film The Terminator drew from material from an episode of the original Outer Limits which Ellison had scripted, "Soldier" (1964). Hemdale , the production company and the distributor Orion Pictures , settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and added a credit to the film which acknowledged Ellison's work ...

  8. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cybernetic assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton ), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future.

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