Nov 11, 2015 · Director Steven Spielberg (C) poses with producer Kathleen Kennedy (L) and screenwriter Melissa Mathison (R) at the 35th Cannes Film Festival, during a photocall for his film 'E.T. the...

Her final film credit was The BFG (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Mathison was born on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, one of five siblings. Her father, Richard Randolph Mathison, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of Newsweek.

11 hours ago · Steven Spielberg is responsible for several of Hollywood's most iconic movies, but he once fought hard for the opportunity not to direct a film. ... While it was announced during ET‘s initial run on the big screen that Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison were working on a draft for a sequel tentatively titled Nocturnal Fears, the ...

Nov 5, 2015 · The Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's amazing sci-fi masterwork about a boy and his pint-sized alien friend. E.T., released on June 11, 1982, was written by Melissa Mathison, who’d previously penned The Black Stallion (1979) for Spielberg's pal Francis Ford Coppola's production studio, American Zoetrope. Together, Spielberg and Mathison ...

Apr 22, 2022 · He didn’t have to search far or wide as his star, Harrison Ford, arrived to set with girlfriend Melissa Mathison, a screenwriter responsible for The Black Stallion, a film Spielberg adored. On...

Nov 27, 2016 · If you're a fan of Steven Spielberg then you will know how talented Melissa Mathison was having written E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and returning three decades later to write the script for Spielberg's latest, The BFG.

Dec 22, 2015 · Speaking to EW, Steven Spielberg reflected on his relationship with screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who died last month, and whose friendship with Spielberg began when she wrote E.T. the...

Dec 23, 2015 · Melissa Mathison, the screenwriter of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun, and the upcoming adventure fantasy The BFG, died at age 65 on Nov. 4 from neuroendocrine cancer.

5 days ago · Steven Spielberg says that his efforts to prevent a sequel to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial influenced his decision to secure “freeze” rights on his future ... [writer] Melissa Mathison, who ...

Aug 31, 2024 · In the 80s, Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison wrote a treatment for an E.T. sequel called E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears, which would have featured evil aliens.