JJ Abrams has a little-known connection to a 1990s family film that changed the future of Hollywood in a big way.
If Abrams hadn’t of got the call to rewrite Casper in the early 1990s, he would not have met Spielberg, his self-named “consigliere”.
When he was around 29, Abrams did an uncredited rewrite on the film, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week.
It was because of Abrams’s work on Casper that Spielberg called upon him to rewrite the script for War of the Worlds in 2004.
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