# Minotaur vs. Terminator

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaur-vs-terminator/103299>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 12, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaur-vs-terminator/103299 "2002-04-12T19:36:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skott)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaur-vs-terminator/103299/1 "2002-04-12T19:36:52Z")

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Read [this article](http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#8) at IMDB and [this one](http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/1107536) about the lawsuit that Terminator 2 borrowed heavily from another script, “The Minotaur.”

I don’t suppose anybody would have a copy of the script or know where one is? I’m curious about making the comparison myself. Apparently, “The Minotaur” contains a story about a liquid machine that morphs into different people and makes its fingers and arms into pointy metal weapons.  
(Doing some research, I found this story goes back to 1993:

[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/lstories/lr980414.htm](http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/lstories/lr980414.htm))

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaur-vs-terminator/103299/2 "2002-04-13T00:25:48Z")

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Not surprising. There’s an old movie from the late '70’s (I think) called “Class of 1999”, containing an android who crashes a truck, melts his flesh off, looks a lot like the terminator, and is killed by heavy machinery. I don’t know if there was a lawsuit over this, but today there definitely would be.