James Cameron “Xenogenesis”

It might not be great, but James Cameron’s Xenogenesis (presented below in two parts), catapulted him from his job as a truck driver to an effects guy working for Roger Corman and John Carpenter.  He got his break while with Corman, when the original director quit on Piranha II and Cameron was promoted from effects guy to head the production.  Anxiety about the movie led Cameron to a nightmare wherein a robot hitman had been sent from the future to kill him for fucking everything up.  Rather than go back to being an effects guy, Cameron wrote the script to Terminator, made a deal I still don’t understand with his soon to be wife/producer Gale Anne Herd (who bought the script for a dollar) and went on to make a low-budget (6.5 mil) masterpiece that went on to earn 38 mil domestically.  The other thing I didn’t realize is that he wrote the original script to Rambo II, even though Stallone would go on to tweek it the fuck out.

XENOGENESIS PART I

XENOGENESIS PART II

July 13th, 2008 - Posted in Sci-Fi, Uncategorized | | 0 Comments