Randall Frakes

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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 of his professional film-writing career.

[edit] 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
The Force (1994), writer
Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay (1999, ISBN 0-0609-5307-1) 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