![]() ![]() “She had a real intuition about me, and not since my own mom had anybody really had my number. It is right up your alley,'” Spielberg said. “I started laughing because she's giving me a Playboy to read, and she said, 'Don't look at the girls, read the short story. It was Spielberg's secretary, Nona Tyson, who found Matheson’s story in Playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie. But the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film. Spielberg got his start directing for TV at the age of 21, helming episodes of such shows as Night Gallery and Marcus Welby, M.D. IT WAS STEVEN SPIELBERG’S SECRETARY WHO DISCOVERED RICHARD MATHESON'S STORY. Those descriptions of the desolate landscape ended up in the novella. In order to gather details of the open road, Matheson set out from his home in Ventura, California with a voice recorder in hand and simply described what he saw. Matheson initially pitched the idea to TV producers but, after it was rejected numerous times, he decided to put his real-life incident into prose form. On his car ride home, and in a daze after receiving the terrible news, he was ruthlessly tailgated by a truck driver. ![]() ![]() Matheson had played a round of golf on November 22, 1963, the same day President John F. Author and screenwriter Richard Matheson based his original novella, which first appeared in the April 1971 issue of Playboy, on an actual road rage incident. ![]()
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