Richard Matheson(1926-2013)

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A hobo finds a strange box in a dumpster. A strange voice tells him whatever he wants is inside the box, all he has to do is to open it...

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The Box (2006)

Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the "Brooklyn Eagle". A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story "Born of Man and Woman"? appeared in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"; Matheson turned out a number of highly regarded horror, fantasy and mystery stories throughout that decade. He broke into films in 1956, adapting his novel "The Shrinking Man" for the big-screen The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).

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Awards
- 5 wins & 4 nominations total

Known for

Jaws 3-D

3.7

Writer

1983

The Incredible Shrinking Man

7.6

Writer

1957

Amazing Stories

7.4

TV Series

Writer

The Omega Man

6.4

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1971

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The Last of the Living
Short
- novel
- 2022
Cineficción Radio
5.3
Podcast Series
- based on a story by
- stories
- 2019–2020
Am I the Last
Video
- novel 'I Am Legend'
- 2019
The Twilight Zone
6.0
TV Series
- based on the teleplay and short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" written by
- 2019
Hideouser and Hideouser
7.6
Short
- co-writer
- 2019
The Near Departed
8.9
Short
- Writer
- 2012
Person to Person
Short
- short story
- 2011
Real Steel
7.1
- short story "Steel"
- 2011
Family Guy
8.1
TV Series
- based on a short story by
- 2010
The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas
8.5
Podcast Series
- original teleplay by
- 2006–2010
The Last Rites of Richard Keene
Short
- short story
- 2010
The Holiday Man
Short
- short story
- 2009
The Box
5.6
- short story "Button, Button"
- 2009
What Dreams May Come
Video
- author
- 2009
L'esame
Short
- novel
- 2007

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Trivia
Hes claimed that the film that came closest to capturing the spirit of his novel "I Am Legend" was Night of the Living Dead (1968), even though that film was not an intentional adaptation of his book.

Quotes
[on what the supernatural genre tells us about human beings] I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the "supernatural," I believe in the "supernormal." To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.