James Cameron is a filmmaking legend, but he’s not necessarily known for his sense of humor.
His straight-talking style in interviews, where he has a penchant for calling things as he sees them, will always be funny.
But that doesn’t always translate to on-screen laughs.
In fact, it almost never does.However, when frequent collaborator Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Cameron in the early ’90s with a new idea, the director would have to sharpen up his comedy chops pretty quick.
The “Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” star brought the director’s attention to 1991 French spy comedy “La Totale!” which he was hoping to adapt.
At the time, it was somewhat outside the director’s wheelhouse but surprisingly, as Cameron told Yahoo! in 2019, he “got it.” Arnie’s basic premise was: “‘What if James Bond had to go home to his wife and family?’” And Cameron was all about it.While
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