The DVD "Strangers" with an autograph. James Cameron

James Cameron is a Canadian film director, best known for creating science fiction and epic films. James does not hide the fact that it is not banal curiosity or thirst for adrenaline that pushes him to shoot the next film, but scientific interest, because humanity has already learned a lot of what is called a masterpiece on the screen.

In 1977, after seeing the first part of the famous blockbuster "Star Wars" in the cinema, Cameron came to the idea that it was more than possible to combine art and science on the screen. In 1978, together with two school friends William Wisher and Jason Fessenden, he finished work on the script and shot a short fantasy film "Xenogenesis", which as a portfolio became a pass for young directors to the New World Pictures studio. At first, James worked as an assistant director, while continuing to study filming techniques and develop his own methods, and then decided to work independently. Cameron has dozens of books to his credit, based on the scripts of box office projects.

The sequel "Aliens", which was directed by James Cameron, became more ambitious compared to the original (Ridley Scott's "Alien"): it was no longer a horror in a confined space, but an action movie. Instead of one Alien, there are dozens, instead of the defenseless crew of the tugboat, there is a detachment of soldiers. Both the audience and critics liked it all, and "Strangers" became a model of how to shoot sequels. With a budget of 18 million, the painting was able to collect more than 130 million.

In 2018, the AMC channel presented a 6-episode documentary on "The History of James Cameron's Science Fiction." Each episode is a conversation between the director and his star colleagues who participated in projects of the science fiction genre - Christopher Nolan, George Lucas, Keanu Reeves, Luc Besson.