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according to this, Cameron said he ripped off Ellison https://www.cbr.com/terminator-harlan-ellison-credit/ https://www.cbr.com/terminator-harlan-ellison-credit
by fsckboy 4y ago
according to this, Cameron said he ripped off Ellison https://www.cbr.com/terminator-harlan-ellison-credit/ https://www.cbr.com/terminator-harlan-ellison-credit/
the article describes it as the opening time travel part, though it's not clear that's what Cameron said.
- anigbrowl 4y agoYeah, I've never really bought that. HE made such a thing out of it I think they put it on there to placate him. It seemed to me that his claims of plagiarism rested on very narrow conceptual elements that were too abstract to count as a real rip-off. See below for another example of this. I really admired him as a writer when I first encountered on him but the more I got to know him the less I enjoyed it :-/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time In contrast, PKD stories like Second Variety feel astonishingly like the post-apocalyptic environment ruled by Skynet and the plan of hunting down the remaining humans with terminators. I would be very surprised if Cameron or someone on the creative team weren't inspired by it.