The process from page to screen was not easy by any stretch.

David, Mike, and Bobby sitting at a bar in in Fire in the Sky - Paramount Pictures In 1993, two years after Robert Patrick terrified moviegoers as the T-1000 in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," he led ...

James Cameron pitched The Terminator to investors with the help of a future Alien franchise star (and his outlandish approach actually worked).

James Cameron might be an iconic director now, but in the early '80s, he was a little-known creator just starting. His first film, 1982's Piranha II: The Spawning, wasn't great, to put it mildly.

In 1993, two years after Robert Patrick terrified moviegoers as the T-1000 in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," he led the cast of an altogether different science fiction film. "Fire in the Sky" is a ...

This story has been documented in several places, including in the book "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron" by Rebecca Keegan, but it seems that James Cameron, while shooting his first ...