Randall Frakes

Randall Frakes was 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.

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, initiated his film-writing career.

Frakes died on 25 June 2023.

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