Top Ten Works of James Cameron
10. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Writer Granted, to make this into a Top Ten Ive had to include some tenuous Cameron movie involvements, but I couldnt very well include Piranha II: The Spawning could I? (As much as I would have liked to). So, sort of a cheat including this here, as Stallone basically ate Camerons script for Rambo: First Blood Part II and shat out his own vision of John Rambos second big screen jaunt. In the early part of the eighties, Cameron was a very busy man working on his own idea for The Terminator and penning sequels to two hit movies Alien and Rambo. While he would get to see Aliens through to the end, he would give up the Rambo script that was then cannibalised by Stallone. The undisputed King of the Sequel, could Cameron have given Rambo that redefining new lease of life as he did with Aliens and T2? I guess well never know, but I dare say a Cameron production of Rambo would have been more warmly received by critics than Stallones generic retread.