'Terminator's James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd: Hasta La Vista To "Fear-Based" Studio Filmmaking

Deadline ^ | October 18, 2014 | Jen Yamato

[EveningStar]

It’s been 30 years since James Cameron made his name with a futuristic sci-fi actioner starring ex-bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, inspired by his own nightmare vision of a murderous mecha-skeleton. Shot for $5.6 million in 1984, The Terminator changed everything for Cameron and his fellow Roger Corman disciple and producer Gale Anne Hurd. The two have since carved their own influential paths – Cameron with Aliens, Titanic, and his $2.7 billion Avatar franchise, Hurd with AMC's ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead. And they're still proving that original ideas can be profitable in spite of Hollywood’s "fear-based" decision-making, while keeping a polite distance from the Terminator: Genisys that’s coming in 2015 like a T-800 from the future.

[Pontiac]

Avatar was pretty much an unaccredited adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 novella “The Word for World Is Forest”

I’ve read a few of her novels but not that one.

Next time I’m in the used book store I will have to look for it.

[Pontiac]

Both you and dfwgator have posted this where did you find it?

[Rodamala]

I first saw it on FR... the place is a treasuretrove of hilarious things from the intarwebz.

[gogeo]

Great tagline.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Thanks!

[max americana]

In other words “I already made millions of dollars but my rich, white liberal guilt needs to be back in control so here I am trying to tell you all that we are better than you@!”