In 1978, the producer Stephen Schimon was preparing for the filming of "Deja Vu", and the author Richard Mattson handed over the unfinished novel "What Dreams May Come" to Stephen Schimon. This book was written by Richard Mattson for his wife. After reading the first draft, Stephen Schimon immediately bought the film rights to the book without hesitation. However, in the next ten years, the filming plan of "What Dreams May Come" was repeatedly shelved
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In 1994, Stephen Schimon met Bernette Byrne, who was also a writer and film producer, in a metaphysical seminar. The two chatted happily and found that each other was deeply interested in the other world after death. , I hope to start making movies with this theme. Two years later, Stephen Schimon and Bernette Byrne formed the Metafilmics production company, dedicated to the shooting of supernatural movies. They brought in Ronald Buss, an Oscar-winning screenwriter for " Rain Man " to adapt Matheson's novel into a screenplay
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