Randall Frakes
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. While editor, he won a Stars and Stripes award for investigative journalism.
After the Army, he earned a degree in Film Writing and Production from Columbia College, while also writing for Analog, Fantastic, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.
His first film work was as a special effects cameraman for Roger Corman, and a number of unproduced screenplays, before his collaborations with Wisher and Cameron, kicked off his professional film-writing career.
Body of Work
- Xenogenesis (1978 short), writer, director, and producer (with James Cameron)
- Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), additional photographer
- Escape from New York (1981), photographic effects
- Galaxy of Terror (1981), photographic effects
- Last Thirty Days of Liberty, unproduced screenplay
- Deathlok, unproduced screenplay
- The Terminator (1984, ISBN 0-553-25317-4), novelization
- Roller Blade (1986), screenplay
- Aliens (1986), synthesizer effects
- Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), story, screenplay, and producer
- Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989), screenplay (as Lloyd Strathern) and lyrics
- Diplomatic Immunity (1991), screenplay
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, ISBN 0-553-29169-6), novelization
- The Divine Enforcer (1992), ghostwriter
- Twisted Fate (1993/II), writer and producer
- "True Lies" (1994) (co-story with James Cameron)
- The Force (1994), writer
- Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay (1999, ISBN 0-06-095307-1) author
- Blowback (2000), screenplay
- Sacrifice (2000), written by
- Devil's Prey (2001), writer
- Instinct to Kill (2001), writer
- Stealing Candy (2002), screenplay
- Bad Karma (2002), writer
- Empires of the Deep (2011), screenplay
Sources
- Frakes, Randall (July 1991). "About the Author". Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-29169-6.