{"id":12346,"date":"2024-11-19T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:25:05","slug":"outer-limits-and-the-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12346","title":{"rendered":"Outer Limits and The Terminator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that Harlan Ellison <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)\">sued and won both an out of court settlement and now appears in the credits of later prints<\/a> of the 1984 Schwarzenegger movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Terminator\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Terminator\">The Terminator<\/a><\/em>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1964 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)\">Outer Limits episode &#8216;Soldier&#8217;<\/a> was written by Harlan Ellison and was loosely adapted from his 1957 short story &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_from_Tomorrow\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soldier_from_Tomorrow\">Soldier from Tomorrow<\/a>&#8216;. The similarities were so close that a settlement was reached despite James Cameron who disagreed with the ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give the original a watch and see just how close (and far) they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A0ZLP9D1Qtg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Harlan Ellison sued and won both an out of court settlement and now appears in the credits of later prints of the 1984 Schwarzenegger movie The Terminator? The 1964 Outer Limits episode &#8216;Soldier&#8217; was written by Harlan Ellison and was loosely adapted from his 1957 short story &#8216;Soldier from Tomorrow&#8216;. The similarities were so close that a settlement was reached despite James Cameron who disagreed with the ruling. 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