Robert Skotak

But that's kind of what happens when you get in at the ground floor employing visual effects artists who would go on to work on Aliens and Terminator 2.

But before they got famous and started winning all those Oscars, not only is this like the high point of James Cameron and the Skotak brothers' early career, but this is also the feature that broke Kurt Russell out of Disney child actor typecasting.

Believe it or not, there was a point before July of 1981 where Kurt Russell had the same kind of public image as Zendaya before Challengers came out.

Thank God they convinced the studio not to go with fucking Tommy Lee Jones or Charles Bronson.

And also, the miniatures for the prison island were repainted and reused for Blade Runner.

What? What?! ! yeah it's like i when i was watching it i was just like i'm getting some blade runner vibes from these miniatures and yeah it turns out it's the same fucking ones uh which that's that's cool that's neat

Some of the VFX tricks that Cameron and the Skotak did.

There's this famous thing, you'll see shorts about this on TikTok.