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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the first of which, The Last Man on Earth, was co-scripted by him and starred Vincent Price. (The other two adaptations are The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend with Will Smith.) Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film Duel that year. In addition, to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). The movie Cold Sweat was based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace ("Icy Breasts") was based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. Both Steel and Button, Button had previously been episodes of The Twilight Zone.
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The Fantastic Shrinking Girl was the abandoned sequel to the 1957 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man titled The Incredible Shrinking Man. Never went into production. The picture was penned by Matheson himself, planned, but was scrapped. Why? The script is available to read, and was published in an anthology, Unrealized Dreams. The theoretical release date remains unknown. Was it going to be released in the late 50s? Were the original actors going to be apart of it? I personally made to be around the late 50s. http://shrinking.freehostia.com/Stories/FantasticShrinkingGirl.html Louise Carey returns home, like her husband before she also shrinks down and joyously reunites with her now-microscopic husband, and both eventually return to normal...
