Review of Jaws 3-D

The Late Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, an many other 50's classics)) said he read Matheson's version of the script, based on a story by someone else, and he said it was good; that they should have shot it. Matheson also explained he wrote the Lou Gossett part for Mickey Rooney originally until Rooney backed out. Then Carl Gottlieb and another writer stepped in and reworked this script until it became the mess that escaped to the movie theaters! As Matheson himself said,(and I was at the seminar on horror in the movies that he was giving, and heard him say this) The final script was like a great 3-course meal with manure thrown on top of it; there's a taste of what it could have been, but it was ruined.

So don't go asking how Carl Gottlieb could have his name on this mess, ask why Matheson didn't use his pseudonym to excuse himself from this mess.