Hemdale Film Corporation

And I was just kind of, I just got hooked up with the right guys, Oliver Stone and John Flynn.

And, you know, Hemdale.

And we, you know, Salvador and Best Seller and The Boost.

And I was doing all these great independent movies.

Now, Soldier had, of course, been available on videocassette for many years Demon with a Glass Hand, which I did for Outer Limits, had won all the awards, but Soldier was right there in popularity.

So we applied to Hemdale Films for a copy of the script.

And they refused to let us see it.

Now, the minute someone tells you you can't see something as innocuous as a script, particularly, I mean, this is my attorney asking, and it was not, you know, I'm clearly not some jamook off the street.

And Cameron had been his usual, I've never met the man, but I gather that he has an ego that makes mine look minuscule by comparison.

And that in the course of his interview, someone had said to him, where did you get the basic inception for Terminator? And his response was, oh, I ripped off a couple of Outer Limits segments.

When the Starlog interview went to print, that exchange had been deleted, thanks to pressure from Hemdale Films.

But Harlan had worked for Starlog in the past, so someone slipped him a copy of the original transcript.

So he had originally... sold off half of his, like 50% of his rights for the film to Galen Hurd, which we had talked about, the $1 deal.

But the other portion of his shares, he had sold off to the company that produced the original film, Hemdale.

And that was because they needed the funding for this film, and apparently the only way that he could actually get the original Terminator made was if he gave all of his rights to the founders of that company.

I think one of the guys is John Daly.