Directed by James Cameron / Screenplay by James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd

Having made his directorial debut with 1982’s decidedly downmarket horror sequel Piranha II: Flying Killers (which he later jokingly defended as “the finest flying killer fish horror comedy ever made”), upcoming Canadian filmmaker James Cameron hit his stride with one of the decade’s defining pictures. Indebted to a 1964 episode of The Outer Limits written by Harlan Ellison, Cameron’s screenplay for The Terminator concerns a cyborg killing machine from the future, sent back in time to present-day Los Angeles to assassinate Sarah Connor, an innocent burger-joint waitress whose unborn son will one day save mankind from the hostile machines which have taken over the world. When it came to casting the title role, the stars aligned perfectly. Austrian-American bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had already starred in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and was now filming its sequel, was initially offered the role of Kyle Reese, the human soldier who follows the Terminator back in time to protect Sarah - but after meeting Cameron, it was swiftly agreed that Schwarzenegger should instead take the role of the Terminator itself. Reese was played by Michael Biehn, a Cameron favourite who later appeared in Aliens and The Abyss, while Linda Hamilton took the role of Sarah Connor, creating a reluctant-yet-resilient heroine not a million miles from Ripley in the Alien franchise. Shot on a modest budget of $6 million, The Terminator recouped its money more than tenfold, burnishing the reputations of all involved and paving the way for 1991’s excellent and ingenious mega-budget sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. All together now: “I’ll be back!”

Framed Dimensions: 400mm x 315mm

Acrylic on 230gsm Winsor & Newton canvas paper

Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.