How James Cameron made sure the terminator wasnt from outer space

[CptStern]

Cameron: This was right at the beginning. . . . I had gotten fired off of "Piranha II" after a few days, so I kind of don't count that. So John Daly of Hemdale is financing "Terminator" . . . and we were literally a few days from starting and I was very prepared. I had everything storyboarded. I was ready to go. . . . Daly sort of reads the script a few days before we start shooting and he wants to have a story conference. . . . That's the one film that didn't evolve during the process because there was no time. There was just bare bones, 42 days and everything was exactly the way I had sort of drawn it out ahead of time. It was the most prepared of any film I'd ever gone into. And he wants to have a story conference . . .

"I want to talk about this guy who comes from this other planet." And we said, "What other planet? He comes from the future." . . . I had been with the prop guy earlier in the day and I had been looking at the props and I liked this .45 automatic and I took it with me -- empty gun -- in fact, it wouldn't even fire, it was a prop gun. It was a real weapon, it just had the barrel stoppered. . . . So I go in and I sit down in front of Daly's desk and he says, "Yes, I want to talk about this man that comes from the future and I don't really understand this and that about the story." And I -- it just was like a flash. I just opened [my] briefcase, I took the script out, set it on his desk. I took the .45 out, I set it on top of the script. I said, "I am prepared to discuss anything. . . ." He said, "You can't do that! I'm the producer!" I said, "I'm not doing anything." And he fled the room and we shot the movie exactly as it was written.

lol, I'm inclinded not to believe it cuz he's canadian and we'd rather bring a knife to a gun fight cuz we're hardcore (I'll roman-greco wrestle anyone who says otherwise)

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-directors21-2010jan21,0,2739999.story?page=1

 

[StarBob]

(I'll roman-greco wrestle anyone who says otherwise)

Gay.

Yep.

 

[CptStern]

it sounds to me like you're just asking for a throw down

 

[Acepilotf14]

If you bring a knife to a gunfight you're bound to win because of the rules of dramatic screenplay.

 

[Darkside55]

I had gotten fired off of "Piranha II"

Piranha II was a good movie. The piranhas flew in that one. You thought you were safe on land but nope, they flew and they devoured your ass.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Must....see...that movie! :O

 

[<RJMC>]

I bring my penis to a gunfight

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Piranha II was a good movie. The piranhas flew in that one. You thought you were safe on land but nope, they flew and they devoured your ass.

Oh man. I haven't seen that since I was a wee boy. I hear there's a Piranha remake scheduled for release middle of this year.

 

[Remus]

Piranha II was a good movie. The piranhas flew in that one. You thought you were safe on land but nope, they flew and they devoured your ass.

 

[jverne]

The piranha movies when i look back are really stupid, but at the time i ****ing loved them.

They can't make a remake, what are they gonna do? Slo-mo kick fighting piranhas? And didn't the first movie have naked boobies in it?

 

[Viperidae]

I don't buy it. Cameron is known for lying, for instance claiming that it was his idea to cast Arnold for the Terminator originally.