The Thing
1982
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Lancaster's best-known work is his adapted screenplay for John Carpenter 's The Thing. [3] He also penned the original screenplays for two of The Bad News Bears films. [4] In 1982, he worked on a first-draft script of an adaptation of Stephen King 's novel Firestarter for Carpenter to direct. Months later of the same year, Carpenter hired Bill ...
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- Ernie Kovacs, (father-in-law)
Bill Lancaster was a writer, actor and producer who worked on The Bad News Bears, The Thing and other films. He was the son of Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson, and the husband of Kip "Kippie" Raleigh Kovacs. He died of cardiac arrest in 1997 at age 49.
- Writer, Actor, Producer
- November 17, 1947
- Bill Lancaster
- January 4, 1997
Bill Lancaster. Writer: The Thing. Bill was known by his friends as "Billy", when he was a youth. He attended "public" school, as many actor's sons and daughters did in the 1960s. He was never athletic since he was stricken with a childhood disease. He was well liked at Emerson Junior High School in West Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Emerson in June 1962. He was known as a...
- November 17, 1947
- January 4, 1997
William 'Bill' Henry Lancaster (November 17, 1947 – January 4, 1997) was an American screenwriter. He is the creator of The Bad News Bears. He was born in L. A., California, the son of Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson. He developed polio at an early age, leaving one of his legs shorter than the other. In 1973, Lancaster played the role of "King" in The Midnight Man, a mystery film starring ...
Jun 26, 2022 · A Venn diagram showing where the American AIDS crisis overlaps the making of John Carpenter’s 1982 body-horror masterpiece The Thing would be a pair of circles drawn side by side. Bill Lancaster ...
Apr 7, 2016 · The Bad News Bears, from Bill Lancaster’s WGA-winning screenplay about a Southern California Little League team comprised of an alcoholic coach, a female pitcher, and “a bunch of jews, sp*cs, ni**ers, pansies, and a booger-eating moron,” opened 40 years ago this week, and for the occasion The Bits features a compilation of box-office data that places the movie’s performance in context ...
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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
