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.

Filmography

 * 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
 * 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 (unreleased), screenplay

Books

 * #obsession Book by Randall Frakes and Seyedeh Tina Sadri