Veteran screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 65. Mathison was most famous for writing E.T., though in the course of her three-decade career she also penned The Escape Artist, Indian in the Cupboard, and Kundun. Her most recent script was a reunion with Steven Spielberg on the upcoming Roald Dahl adaptation The Bfg. Unlike many writers, Mathison was a frequent presence on the E.T. set, and worked closely with the film's young cast. "In 1982 I was not yet a parent, but was a stepmother, and had been a consummate babysitter and an older sister," she told The New Yorker in 2012. "The kids in E.T. can be directly linked to kids I knew. I even stole some of my little friends’ best lines: i.e. 'penis breath.' What adult woman could have thought of that?" Mathison got her start in Hollywood thanks to a connection...
- 11/5/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
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