Harlan Ellison, the fantasy writer, had won a suit claiming that a good part of The Terminator had been culled from The Outer Limits, a 1960s science fiction series.
Two of his acclaimed teleplays for the series seem to have given birth to the plot and the images of the movie: "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand."
Reports had it that the movie was too close to the episodes.
Coming up is another movie with a circular narrative: Christopher Nolan's Memento. It was ranked 100th in WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays, just below The Wild Bunch and just above Notorious.
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