Randall Frakes

Randall Frakes
Born	United States
Occupation(s)	Writer, author, screenwriter, photographer, producer
Notable work	The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Titanic

Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his novelization work with long-time friends Bill Wisher and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day . ^[1]

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 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
• Roller Blade (1986), screenplay
• 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
• The Divine Enforcer (1992), ghostwriter
• Twisted Fate (1993/II), writer and producer
• The Force (1994), writer
• Blowback (2000), screenplay
• Sacrifice (2000), written by
• Devil's Prey (2001), writer
• Instinct to Kill (2001), writer
• Stealing Candy (2002), screenplay
• Bad Karma (2001), writer
• Empires of the Deep (unreleased), screenplay

Bibliography

• The Terminator (1984, ISBN   0-553-25317-4), novelization
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, ISBN   0-553-29169-6), novelization
• Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay (1998, ISBN   0-06-095307-1) ^[2]
• #Obsession: Freeing Yourself from Social Media Disorder (2016, ISBN   978-1-4809-6674-1) ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Frakes, Randall (July 1991). "About the Author". Terminator 2: Judgment Day . Bantam Books. ISBN   0-553-29169-6.
2. Cameron, James; Frakes, Randall (1998). Frakes, Randall (ed.). "Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay". HarperCollins – via Internet Archive.
3. Frakes, Randall; Tina Sadai, Seyedeh (22 April 2016). #Obsession: Freeing Yourself from Social Media Disorder. Dorrance Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4809-6674-1 – via Google Books.
4. Frakes, Randall; Tina Sadri, Seyedeh (April 2016). #Obsession: Freeing Yourself from Social Media Disorder. Rosedog Books. ISBN   978-1-4809-6674-1 – via GoodBooks.

External links

• Randall Frakes at IMDb