As a kid growing up in Chippawa, Ontario, James Cameron used to run to the drugstore every Friday after getting his allowance and blow it all on Mountain Dew and Marvel comic books. He’d then race home, tear through the new comics, and take out a notepad and try to create his own. “I would never re-draw panels,” Cameron tells Rolling Stone, “but I’d look at them and then do my own. That was always the process. Even at that time, I was trying to distinguish copying from original art.
- 12/12/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Xenogenesis is a 1978 American science fiction short film that was the directorial debut of James Cameron. It stars William Wisher Jr. and Margaret Umbel.
The film was created with the help of several of his student friends. It was financed by a group of Californian dentists looking for a quick tax write-off.
Cameron co-wrote and co-directed it as a test movie to show his designs, hoping to attract investors for a full theatrical version of the story, and to start a career in the world of cinema.
The latter ultimately happened when he...
The film was created with the help of several of his student friends. It was financed by a group of Californian dentists looking for a quick tax write-off.
Cameron co-wrote and co-directed it as a test movie to show his designs, hoping to attract investors for a full theatrical version of the story, and to start a career in the world of cinema.
The latter ultimately happened when he...
- 2/19/2020
- QuietEarth.us
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