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 .
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, writer, director, and producer
- Battle Beyond the Stars, additional photographer
- Escape from New York, photographic effects
- Galaxy of Terror, photographic effects
- Last Thirty Days of Liberty, unproduced screenplay
- Deathlok, unproduced screenplay
- The Terminator, novelization
- Roller Blade, screenplay
- Aliens, synthesizer effects
- Hell Comes to Frogtown, story, screenplay, and producer
- ', screenplay and lyrics
- Diplomatic Immunity, screenplay
- ', novelization
- The Divine Enforcer, ghostwriter
- Twisted Fate, writer and producer
- True Lies
- The Force, writer
- Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay author
- Blowback, screenplay
- Sacrifice, written by
- Devil's Prey, writer
- Instinct to Kill, writer
- Stealing Candy, screenplay
- Bad Karma, writer
- Empires of the Deep, screenplay
