James Cameron Slams WGA For Losing Writing Credit On Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Point Break’: “It Was Bullsh*t”

We’ve long understood that for ages that James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow had been involved with multiple collaborations over the decades, but Cameron has revealed that not only did he write her seminal 1991 action film “Point Break,” but he’s still upset with the Writers Guild of America, as they refused to give him credit on the movie.

Without expanding upon his contributions to the pic starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, he told The Hollywood Reporter in a recent profile to promote the release of “Avatar: Fire & Ash,” “I wrote ‘Point Break’…I flat out got stiffed by the Writers Guild on that. It was bulls***.”

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Of course, Bigelow and Cameron (who got married and divocered) shared similar tastes on a multitude of things as they worked together on other projects like the vampire neo-western “Near Dark” (featuring three key cast members from “Aliens” with Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Jenette Goldstein playing a feral group of American vampires) and the cyberpunk crime thriller “Strange Days” that co-starred Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett. That time of their collaborations also nearly saw the duo make the first “X-Men” feature film together years before the Bryan Singer iteration was released in 2000.

If you were unfamiliar with Cameron’s era of beefing up or writing scripts for other filmmakers, some of those projects included Sly Stallone‘s “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (he co-wrote with Stallone) helmed by George P. Cosmatos and also did similar uncredited work on the script for the 20th Century Fox sci-fi buddy cop actioner “Alien Nation” (produced by his first ex-wife, Gale Anne Hurd) directed by Graham Baker, which ended up getting a TV spinoff series.

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Speaking of spinoff TV series, it was recently announced that “Point Break” is getting a series reboot/spinoff at AMC. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or so, Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire & Ash” hits the big screen this week on December 19, and you can read The Playlist’s review for it right here.