Twilight Zone and Star Trek Writer Died
Famed science fiction and fantasy writer George Clayton Johnson passed away on December 25, 2015 at a hospital in North Hills, California. Johnson, who wrote the script for the first Star Trek episode aired, seven Twilight Zone episodes, died at the age of 86 from cancer. Johnson's son, Paul Johnson, reported this to The Hollywood Reporter. A native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Johnson was a colorful and mysterious figure in the world of science fiction. "The Twilight Zone" creator Rod Sterling paid Johnson $ 500 for an unpublished short story that was adapted for episode 13 of the CBS series. In the episode "The Four of Us Will Die," which aired on January 1, 1960, Harry Towns played a criminal who could change his face and impersonate anyone. The Execution, also based on Johnson's story, featured a scientist (Russell Johnson) who used a time machine to rescue a man sentenced to death by hanging in 1880, and took it to our time. Other episodes of "The Twilight Zone", scripts for which were written by Johnson, "Penny for Your Thoughts", "Pool Game", "Nothing in the Dark no "and others. In an interview that Johnson gave in 2003, he said the following in particular: "The Twilight Zone played the same role in the 60s Renaissance as colorful clothes, rock music and marijuana. The series helped people move to the next level." . In the first episode of the original series " I want to be remembered as a person who, at the beginning of his journey, took control of his life and set goals for himself. When I was given lined paper, I wrote on the other side. When expected of me to behave in a certain way, I deceived their hopes. " The Topic of Article: Twilight Zone and Star Trek Writer Died. |
