Casper (film)
Production
Executive producer Steven Spielberg was planning a film adaptation of Casper the Friendly Ghost. He saw an episode of the television series Brooklyn Bridge) directed by Brad Silberling and saw potential in this work, recruiting Silberling for directing Casper. Alex Proyas had initially signed on as director, but left due to creative differences with the screenplay. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, he claimed that he was intrigued with doing a children's fantasy, and wanted to do a more dark film, akin to The Wizard of Oz). J. J. Abrams did an uncredited rewrite of the script. The screenplay gave a backstory of Casper being the ghost of Casper McFadden, a boy who died of pneumonia at 12, though some of the comics, particularly in the 1960s, portrayed him as born a ghost to ghost parents.
Production
!The film was shot in [Camden, Maine.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/CamdenMaineOctober2021001.jpg/250px-CamdenMaineOctober2021001.jpg)
Production
Two people have claimed to be the character Casper's sole creator, Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, but neither had retained any rights to the character, and Oriolo died years before production on the film began. However, the filmmakers gave Reit a substantial honorarium.
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