#5 | Building A Terminator

Blockbuster

Epicleff

Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

James finishes filming on The Terminator, only to see the film disappoint. James marries his producer Gale, and fights for Sigourney Weaver's big payday in Aliens.

This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios.

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0:00.0	This is Blockbuster.
0:07.0	The Story of James Cameron
0:17.0	Episode 5 Monday, March 19th, 1984, Los Angeles. After more than a year waiting for Arnold Schwarzenegger to become available,
0:34.4	filming on the Terminator is finally getting underway.
0:37.2	It was the start of a 42-day sprint for Director James Cameron
0:42.0	and producer Gail Ann Heard.
0:44.0	How are you feeling, Jim?
0:46.0	Oh, this is incredible.
0:49.0	It's sort of magic.
0:52.0	You know, all these things we dreamed up and put on a page and
0:56.2	and now they're real. Everyone here believes in it too.
1:02.7	That wasn't entirely true.
1:04.3	Some of the crew was just here for a paycheck, but James had every intention of inspiring them
1:08.7	with his vision for the story.
1:10.5	Los Angeles proved the perfect setting. It was dirty, polluted, but still
1:14.9	decadent, a city unknowingly on the precipice of a war against the machines.
1:19.5	It's going to be great. I sure hope so.
1:23.0	There was doubt.
1:25.0	Arnold was still practicing his gun handling,
1:27.0	trying to get all the motions to be automatic,
1:30.0	like his character.
1:31.0	And lead actress Linda Hamilton had injured her leg and couldn't run naturally
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