"Cameron took both jobs. This meant that, in a three-month period in 1983, he had to write three scripts. Cameron approached the dilemma schematically, as a Terminator might, scanning the scene with a computer readout in its head. He decided each script would be two hours long and 120 pages, for a total page count of 360. He divided the total number of waking hours he had during that three-month period by 360 and figured out how many pages per hour he had to write. 'And I just wrote that many pages per our,' he says. Cameron wrote longhand on yellow legal pads, mostly starting in the evening and going into the early morning hours, so that he could attend to preproduction duties on The Terminator during the day... He downed pot after pot of coffee, ate plenty of junk food, and... didn't really finish."--From Rebecca Keegan's new Cameron bio, The Futurist (Crown, 2009). The three scripts were a Terminator rewrite, Alien 2, and Rambo: First Blood Part 2. Of course, he eventually finished.
(Seventeenth in a series.)
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