John Mattson

John Mattson is an American screenwriter and author. His screenplay for the film Milk Money sold to Paramount Pictures for an outright purchase of $1.1 million[1] after Paramount topped a $1 million bid from Dino De Laurentiis Communications.[2] He is the co-writer of Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (for which he won the 1996 Environmental Media Award) and Free Willy 3: The Rescue. His story "Figure and Ground" won the 2018 R. N. Kinder Prize for Realistic Fiction,[3] and was published by Pleiades in 2019. His story "Eric Clapton's Girlfriend" won the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award for Flash Fiction.[4]

He teaches in the screenwriting program at Chapman University.[5]

Filmography

• Milk Money (1994)
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (with Corey Blechman and Karen Janszen) (1995)
• Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)

References

1. O'Malley, Kathy; Collin, Dorothy (1992-11-29). "Inc". Chicago Tribune. p. 5.
2. Eller, Claudia (1992-11-12). "Par in 'Money' as DDLC riled". Variety. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
3. "Winner of the 2018 R.M. Kinder Prize: John Mattson « pleiadesmag". Retrieved 2019-07-13.
4. "Awards". The Los Angeles Review. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
5. "Faculty Profile". www.chapman.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-07.

External links

• John Mattson at IMDb