GUS VAN SANT - PHSYCHO SCREENWRITER STEFANO DEAD AT AGE 84

Joseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, died Aug. 25 in Thousand Oaks, CA at age 84, according to reports published on Wednesday. He also worked with Gus Van Sant on the 1998 remake of the movie. In an interview with E! Online Stefano recalled that when he read the original novel, "I realized I was hearing an awful lot about the killer and very little about the killed. That brought my mind around to Marian Crane, and I though, "What if the movie is about her?" ... It must have taken me 20 minutes to pitch. Hitchcock didn't say a word. And when I finished, he looked at me and said, 'We could get a star.' In 1959 it was unheard of to get a star to play someone who gets murdered 15 minutes into the film." Stefano also wrote numerous other features and was credited as the co-creator to the classic sci-fi series The Outer Limits.



31/08/2006