 Director James Cameron (I) (qv) contacted Orson Scott Card (qv)  before filming began with the possibility of producing a book based  on the film. Card initially told his agent that he doesnt do  "novelizations", but when she told him that the director was James  Cameron, he agreed to consider it. The script arrived, and Card  signed on after receiving assurances from Cameron that he would be  free to develop his "novel" the way he wanted to. After a meeting  with Cameron, Card immediately wrote the first three chapters, which  dealt with events concerning Bud and Lindsay Brigman that occurred  before the events in the film. Cameron gave these chapters to  Ed Harris (I) (qv) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (qv), who  used it to develop their characters.