Melissa Marie Mathison is a film screenwriter and associate producer born in Los Angeles, California on June 3rd, 1950. She wrote the script and served as associate producer on the 1982 sci-fi family classic E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. She also wrote the "Kick the Can" vignette featured in 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie. She was credited under the name Josh Rogan in this film.