Film Studies and Screen Work
Etchison has written professionally in many genres since 1960. He attended UCLA film school in the 1960s and has written many screenplays as yet unproduced, from his own works as well as those of Ray Bradbury ('The Fox and the Forest") and Stephen King "The Mist". He rewrote a Colin Wilson script, The Ogre and completed a screenplaty based on his own short story "The Late Shift". He co-wrote a TV story for the Logan's Run series - "The Thunder Gods" (printed in The Circuit" 2, No 3).
In 1983, Etchison was asked by Stephen King to be the film consultant /historian on King's book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre (book).
In 1984, ZBS Media produced a 90-minute radio version of Stephen King's "The Mist" based on Etchison's script. A film. "Killing Time", was made by Patrick Aumont and Damian Harris (Graymatter Productions) from Etchison's story 'The Late Shift".
In 1985 Etchison served as staff writer for the TV series The Hitchhiker (TV series) (HBO).
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