![]() Kneale requested his writing screen credit be removed once his comical mystery screenplay was rewritten by an uncredited Carpenter, and then later Wallace (who received sole screen credit as writer), to include more gore and simplify the story. Kneale initially blamed the drastic changes to his script on executive producer Dino De Laurentiis not understanding his dialogue when it was translated to Italian. The producers liked the idea, and after Joe Dante moved on to another project, producer John Carpenter's regular collaborator, Tommy Lee Wallace, came in as the new director. A novel of the same title based on the screenplay has since been written by Jack Martin. of the screenplay written by fantasy and horror author, Dennis Etchison, under the pseudonym Jack Martin. The screenplay was written by Tommy Lee Williams. Dante wanted a new and different story than the two previous movies in the series, so he suggested Kneale write a treatment around the word Halloween (though based on other reports, John Carpenter had always wanted different Halloween-themed stories for each movie and never wanted to use Myers after the first one). Halloween III Season of the Witch (1982). ![]() The movie's original director, Joe Dante, approached Nigel Kneale to write the movie while Kneale was temporarily living in Hollywood writing the remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) for director John Landis that was never made due to budget cost. ![]()
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