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Richard Christian Matheson
| Full Name: | Richard Christian Matheson |
| Born: | October 14, 1953 Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Occupation: | Writer, Screenwriter |
| Nationality: | American |
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Biography
Richard Christian Matheson is an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and screenwriter/producer. He is the Son of Richard Matheson.
He has written and co-written feature film and television projects for Richard Donner, Ivan Reitman, Joel Silver, Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer, Roger Corman and many others.
To date, Matheson has written and sold twelve original spec feature scripts; considered a record. He has written pilots for comedy and dramatic series for SHOWTIME, FOX, NBC, ABC, TNT, HBO, FOX, SPIKE and CBS and served as head writer and Executive Producer for twenty network comedy and dramatic series. He has had seven feature films produced, including the critically hailed, paranoid satire, "THREE O'CLOCK HIGH" which the New York Times called "brilliantly subversive."
Matheson wrote the screenplay for the critically lauded "SOLE SURVIVOR" a FOX four-hour mini-series based on Dean Koontz's best selling novel. He also co-wrote and Executive Produced the SHOWTIME film "PARADISE" starring Barbara Hershey, David Strathairn and Elaine Stitch, "DELUSION" an original horror suspense film for VH1, "DEMONS" an original, dark suspense film for SHOWTIME and the adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction/Fantasy series, "THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER" as a four-hour mini-series for the SYFY Channel.
Matheson recently co-created and co-wrote thirteen episodes of "CHEMISTRY", an edgy, erotic half-hour comedy series for HBO Productions and wrote three scripts for SHOWTIME'S "MASTERS OF HORROR," two directed by Tobe Hooper. For TNT's "NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES" mini-series, he wrote the critically-hailed, adaptation of Stephen King's short story "BATTLEGROUND," starring William Hurt. The one-hour episode won two EMMYS and THE NEW YORK TIMES hailed it "...a minor masterpiece."
He has recently created/written "MAJESTIC," a one-hour paranormal series for TNT, based on the work of Whitley Strieber and co-created and developed "DRAGONS," a six-hour mini-series with director Bryan Singer. Matheson recently completed a horror project with Roger Corman, directed by Joe Dante.
Matheson is considered a cutting-edge voice in surreal, psychological horror fiction and master of the short story. His 75 critically-lauded stories have been published in major anthologies, including YEARS BEST HORROR, YEARS BEST FANTASY, YEARS BEST NEW HORROR, YEARS BEST HORROR STORIES.
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