‘The Terminator’ at 42: the story of its making

In a 42nd-anniversary thread, ATRightMovies says James Cameron imagined a robotic killer after a fever dream in Rome. It describes Gale Anne Hurd buying his script for $1 on the condition that Cameron direct, and Schwarzenegger being cast as the Terminator after initially being considered for Kyle Reese. The thread puts the film’s production budget at $6.4 million and its box-office gross at $78.3 million.