It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost forty years since James Cameron changed movies forever with the release of The Terminator in 1984.
At just 30 years old, this was Cameron’s breakthrough, with his only other feature film being the low-budget Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981.
His story about a cyborg sent from the future to kill the mother of a future leader of a resistance against robots who have taken over the Earth set Cameron on a path to becoming one of the most influential filmmakers ever.
Before any of that could happen, however, Cameron needed to find the perfect face for his robotic monster.
As we all know, the role went to Arnold Schwarzenegger, sending his career into the stratosphere, but before it did, there was talk of another famous name playing the part.
Then one conversation with James Cameron changed everything, shaping history into the form we now know it.
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