E.T.’ Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, Ex-Wife Of Harrison Ford, Dies Of Cancer At 65, Melissa Mathison, who was Oscar-nominated for aboriginal cine for Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” and aswell wrote “The Black Stallion,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles afterwards an illness, her brother Dirk Mathison confirmed. She was 65.
She afresh reunited with Spielberg to address the cine for Roald Dahl adjustment “The BFG,” which is in post-production. Mathison, who was affiliated to Harrison Ford from 1983 to 2004, had two accouchement with the actor, Malcolm and Georgia.
Mathison aswell served as accessory ambassador on “E.T.,” which was produced by Kathleen Kennedy.
Spielberg, who formed carefully with Mathison on the abstraction for the film, declared her ascribe on a DVD appropriate edition, “Melissa delivered this 107-page aboriginal abstract to me and I apprehend it in about an hour. I was just agape out. It was a Software I was accommodating to shoot the next day. It was so honest, and Melissa’s articulation fabricated a absolute affiliation with my heart.”
Mathison explained on the DVD: “I would address for four or 5 canicule in my little appointment in Hollywood, and again drive out to Marina Del Rey area Steven Spielberg was alteration in a little accommodation on the beach. I’d accompany him my pages and we’d sit and go through them…It took about eight weeks for us to get the aboriginal draft, which was absolutely fast I think.”
She aswell wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s 1997 “Kundun,” during which she started a accord with the film’s subject, the Dalai Lama.
Her added screenplays included addition Kennedy-Marshall film, “The Indian in the Cupboard,” and “The Escape Artist.” She wrote a articulation in the “Twilight Zone” cine as able-bodied as autograph TV cine “Son of the Morning Star.”
Mathison was built-in in Los Angeles and abounding U.C. Berkeley.
She afresh reunited with Spielberg to address the cine for Roald Dahl adjustment “The BFG,” which is in post-production. Mathison, who was affiliated to Harrison Ford from 1983 to 2004, had two accouchement with the actor, Malcolm and Georgia.
Mathison aswell served as accessory ambassador on “E.T.,” which was produced by Kathleen Kennedy.
Spielberg, who formed carefully with Mathison on the abstraction for the film, declared her ascribe on a DVD appropriate edition, “Melissa delivered this 107-page aboriginal abstract to me and I apprehend it in about an hour. I was just agape out. It was a Software I was accommodating to shoot the next day. It was so honest, and Melissa’s articulation fabricated a absolute affiliation with my heart.”
Mathison explained on the DVD: “I would address for four or 5 canicule in my little appointment in Hollywood, and again drive out to Marina Del Rey area Steven Spielberg was alteration in a little accommodation on the beach. I’d accompany him my pages and we’d sit and go through them…It took about eight weeks for us to get the aboriginal draft, which was absolutely fast I think.”
She aswell wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s 1997 “Kundun,” during which she started a accord with the film’s subject, the Dalai Lama.
Her added screenplays included addition Kennedy-Marshall film, “The Indian in the Cupboard,” and “The Escape Artist.” She wrote a articulation in the “Twilight Zone” cine as able-bodied as autograph TV cine “Son of the Morning Star.”
Mathison was built-in in Los Angeles and abounding U.C. Berkeley.
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