Randall Frakes

Randall Frakes
Born	Randall Lee Frakes April 27, 1947 Santa Clara, California, USA
Nickname(s)	R.L.A. Frakes
Age	77 (current)
Occupation	Author

Randall Frakes is an American author who wrote the novelizations The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Overview

Frakes is a film and science fiction writer. With James Cameron, he previously worked on the short film Xenogenesis in 1978. Cameron was living with Frakes when he wrote the draft for The Terminator, and he later recruited Frakes to write the novelization.

About The Author

Official "About the Author" section in the back of the 1991 novel Terminator 2: Judgment Day:

Randall Frakes worked as editor of the Army’s 16th Signal Battalion newspaper while stationed in Europe, during which time he won the Stars and Stripes journalism award for an investigative report on conditions at Mannheim stockade.

After returning to civilian life, Frakes studied film writing and production at Columbia College in Los Angeles and supported himself by writing fiction for Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Fantastic magazines.

After college, he worked as a cameraman for Roger Corman in Venice, California, creating photographic effects for Escape from New York, Battle Beyond the Stars, and Galaxy of Terror.

He eventually went back to writing, collaborating with his writing partner, William Wisher, on the screenplay Last Thirty Days of Liberty, and the novelization for James Cameron’s The Terminator.

Frakes also co-produced and wrote a futuristic comedy adventure, Hell Comes to Frogtown, and the script for Marvel Comics’ dark superhero “Deathlok.”

He recently completed the screenplay for Fries Entertainment’s Diplomatic Immunity, and is developing a novel and several screenplays. He lives in Sylmar, California.

Work in Terminator franchise

• The Terminator (novel)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (novel)
• No Fate But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (special thanks)

External links

• Randall Frakes on the Internet Movie Database
• Q&A With Randall Frakes on JamesCameronOnline.com