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Authorities have identified the hiker who suffered a fatal medical emergency in Runyon Canyon as 78-year-old screenwriter William Hasley.
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
Cardoso is a director, screenwriter, producer and professor of filmmaking at the University of California, Riverside.
—Time, 10 June 2026
Spielberg’s first fully theatrical feature, the lovers-on-the-run chase film The Sugarland Express from 1974, was based on a true story in Texas that Spielberg, along with screenwriters Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood, embellished to turn into a big moving Hollywood entertainment.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
The biopic appears to still be in development, though a new screenwriter has not yet been announced.
—Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
Cardoso is a director, screenwriter, producer and professor of filmmaking at the University of California, Riverside.
—Time, 10 June 2026
Spielberg’s first fully theatrical feature, the lovers-on-the-run chase film The Sugarland Express from 1974, was based on a true story in Texas that Spielberg, along with screenwriters Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood, embellished to turn into a big moving Hollywood entertainment.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
The biopic appears to still be in development, though a new screenwriter has not yet been announced.
—Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screenwriter. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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screenwriter
noun
screen·writ·er
-ˌrīt-ər 
: a writer of screenplays
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