I am Doug Crepeau. Along with Daniel Gilbertson and Dan O'Bannon, my name is on the Original WGA # 239377 registration slip dated Oct 9 1980. The registration was under the original movie title C.L.A.W., an acronym for Cybernetic Lurking Anti-personnel Weapon.
I refer you to the Cinefantastique Jan 1998 page 52 article, "The Terminator and Philip K.Dick". You will find that Terminator contains original material I developed for C.L.A.W. (the product codes for one that were also used in Dark Angel and the half-machine face- Yes James Cameron had access to this script - the true origin of "The Terminator" as well.).
You will find our version was much closer to the original Second Variety story except for replacing the Moon Base with an L-5 Colony harboring the last of Humanity which Hendricks (not Hendrickson - a gimmick Teja-Flores used to build up his word count for screen credit.- We used Dick's original dialog from "Second Variety" which did not count for our final screen credit in the final Screamers script) saves in a spectacular battle in space with the female robot (Tasso) now in full kill mode.
To quote Dick from the Cinefantastique article "A winning script...Sensational ending. Better than my original story. The last line has tremendous punch. I read it, emitted a tremendous shriek and fell over backwards!" I wish everyone could have seen our version, especially if it had come out in 1982.
I refer you to the Cinefantastique Jan 1998 page 52 article, "The Terminator and Philip K.Dick". You will find that Terminator contains original material I developed for C.L.A.W. (the product codes for one that were also used in Dark Angel and the half-machine face- Yes James Cameron had access to this script - the true origin of "The Terminator" as well.).
You will find our version was much closer to the original Second Variety story except for replacing the Moon Base with an L-5 Colony harboring the last of Humanity which Hendricks (not Hendrickson - a gimmick Teja-Flores used to build up his word count for screen credit.- We used Dick's original dialog from "Second Variety" which did not count for our final screen credit in the final Screamers script) saves in a spectacular battle in space with the female robot (Tasso) now in full kill mode.
To quote Dick from the Cinefantastique article "A winning script...Sensational ending. Better than my original story. The last line has tremendous punch. I read it, emitted a tremendous shriek and fell over backwards!" I wish everyone could have seen our version, especially if it had come out in 1982.