Richard Matheson

...years ago, Fitzpatrick spent eight months writing a screenplay based on one of his favorite books, “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson. The end-of-the-world story already had been filmed twice, as “The Last Man on Earth”...

In this article: Warner Bros., Will Smith, I Am Legend, Hollywood, Mothball, Testosterone, Joe Estevez, and Martin Sheen

...Tales , writer-director Richard Kelly ( Donnie Darko ) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box.

In this article: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Paris, France, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Cadre, Jedi, and IMAX

...a statement. 'The Box' filmmaker Richard Kelly pushes his viewers' buttons Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million...

In this article: Rod Blagojevich, Manuel Zelaya, Suicide, Progress Energy, Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Box, and Richard Kelly

...have in the name of security. But the story under this rich surface is simplistic and derivative: Its influences include Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend," written in 1954 and filmed three times to date; the 2006 movie "Ultraviolet";...

In this article: Daybreakers, Sam Neill, Derivative, Dog, Metropolis, Edward Dalton, I Am Legend, and Fritz Lang

...writer-director Richard Kelly ( Donnie Darko ) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its...

In this article: Washington, D.C., James Robinson, Nick Saban, Will Ferrell, Starman, Mark Ingram, Trent Richardson, and Gatorade

...job of delivering the expected spooky goods, but he also mixes in plenty of idiosyncratic choices. It's hard to argue that Richard Matheson shouldn't be represented by "Prey" and its possessed fetish doll, but the time-tripping and utterly...

In this article: Peter Straub, Anne Rice, That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, Dominican friar, Knopf, Library of America, The Algebraist, and Matter

BY RENE RODRIGUEZ Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause...

In this article: Richard Kelly, The Box, Southland Tales, Button, Button, The Miami Herald, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, and The Twilight Zone

...and Mare Winningham, said Stanley Wiater, co-author of The Twilight and Other Zones: The Dark Worlds of Richard Matheson (Citadel Press, $19.95). Matheson's pseudonym, Stanley Logan, was used in the credits. Wiater isn't surprised that...

In this article: Rod Serling, Cameron Diaz, The Twilight Zone, James Marsden, Richard Kelly, and Donnie Darko

Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story "Button, Button" - about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't...

In this article: Richard Kelly, The Box, Southland Tales, Button, Button, Los Angeles, Virginia, The Twilight Zone, and James Marsden

...the movie's Friday release via Warner Bros. The movie begins like an episode of "The Twilight Zone"; sure enough, the Richard Matheson short story on which the movie is based was made into an episode of that show in 1986. But for Kelly,...

In this article: Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, Frank Langella, NASA, Mars, Existentialism, and Dog