John Mattson is an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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and author. His screenplay for the film ''
Milk Money'' sold to
Paramount Pictures
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for an outright purchase of $1.1 million after Paramount topped a $1 million bid from
Dino De Laurentiis
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian-American film producer. Along with Carlo Ponti, he was one of the producers who brought Italian cinema to the international scene at the end of World War II. He ...
Communications. He is the co-writer of
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (for which he won the 1996
Environmental Media Award
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) and
Free Willy 3: The Rescue. His story "Figure and Ground" won the 2018 R. N. Kinder Prize for Realistic Fiction, and was published by ''
Pleiades
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'' in 2019. His story "Eric Clapton's Girlfriend" won the 2019
Los Angeles Review
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Dr. Kate Gale, managing editor of Red Hen Press
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Literary Award for Flash Fiction.
Filmography
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Milk Money'' (1994)
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home'' (with
Corey Blechman and
Karen Janszen) (1995)
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Free Willy 3: The Rescue'' (1997)
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male screenwriters
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