- According to his wife China Kong, after shooting himself "he lived for forty-five minutes, in a state of clarity and ecstasy that was, for me, unimaginable. He spoke nearly continuously, recounting people, places, and plans. Finally, the room seemed to fill with light, and he died".
- In 1988 Marlon Brando, impressed by White of the Eye (1987), employed Cammell to direct a script he had written called "Jericho", an ultra-violent action thriller. Brando would play Billy Harrington, a retired government assassin coerced back into action by evil CIA operatives who introduce his daughter to a Colombian druglord's son, who falls for her. Harrington, named after Brando's psychiatrist who had died recently, embarks on an ultraviolent rescue mission. Andy Garcia, Rubén Blades, Rita Moreno, Quincy Jones and Julia Roberts were going to star in the project. According to Cammell, the body count was huge: "He [Brando] kills everybody - everybody! - in the last reel." Producer Elliott Kastner paid Brando $3 million up front, but after eighteen months of work, while on pre-production in Mexico and with shooting only days away, Brando dropped out, claiming he couldn't get insurance. Kastner went bankrupt, and Cammell went back to his typewriter.
- Son of writer/poet Charles Richard Cammell, heir to one of England's largest shipping fortunes, lost in the stock crash of the 1930s.
- Was offered the chance to direct Bad Influence (1990) and RoboCop 2 (1990).
- After Performance (1970), he wrote a script called "Ishtar" that was to feature William S. Burroughs as a judge kidnapped while on holiday in Morocco. Like most of the scripts he worked on, it remained unproduced.
- Two days before his suicide, Bill Pullman had agreed to star in his new film "'33", which already had studio backing. Set in Istanbul in the '30s, the thriller dealt with a journalist who becomes trapped in the hideout of a heroin kingpin. Albeit the script was originally written in 1987, this was the last project he worked on, together with wife China Kong and Drew Hammond.
- In late January 1990 Cammell was set to direct the Jean-Claude Van Damme's starrer "Alamogordo", a $25-million science-fiction adventure written by Ken Finkleman, in which the Belgian-born martial-arts would've played a taxi driver in the 21st Century. This TWE production, which was set to be filmed in Spain the following summer and to be released by Columbia, never got before cameras supposedly due to budgetary reasons.
- During battles with Nu Image over Wild Side (1995), Cammell wrote "The Cull", an action-thriller about a Gulf War veteran whose life is threatened by government assassins because he plans to reveal details of chemical warfare. Sean Connery was set to star and the project was to be produced by CineFin, but the company was crippled when one of its other productions, the Debra Winger-Marlon Brando-Johnny Depp film "Divine Rapture", collapsed a few days into shooting.
- In 1979, Marlon Brando proposed him that they collaborate on a China Seas pirate story called "Fan Tan". Brando improvised scenes and Cammell wrote a 165-page treatment, but the star soon lost interest in it. In 1982, on Brando's request, Cammell worked the same material into an incomplete novel. Brando, however, dropped the project again, but China Kong revived it after Brando's death. Knopf's Sonny Mehta hired film critic David Thomson to gather the extant materials and finish the book which was published in 2005.
- Adapted for the screen, together with author J.C. Pollock, the book "Centrifuge". In May 1989 it was announced that the action/thriller project would be filmed the following summer in Toronto and Northern Ontario, Canada, with Don Johnson playing an ex-CIA agent pursued by both his ex-bosses and the KGB. James Bond veteran John Glen was going to direct for producers Euan Lloyd and Chris Chrisafis, but in the end this Vestron produced movie project never happened.
- Art prodigy as a child, trained at the Royal Academy School of Art, became a celebrated portrait painter in London in the 1950s.
- Brother of David Cammell.
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