Lawrence D. Cohen

Carrie was both the first Stephen King novel to be published and the first to be adapted into a feature film. During an interview in 2010, King said he was 26 years old at the time and was paid just $2,500 for the film rights, but added, "I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book." Cohen was hired, and scripted the first draft, which had closely followed the novel's intentions. United Artists, the studio behind the film, accepted the second draft but only allocated director De Palma a budget of $1.6 million. Certain scripted scenes were omitted from the final version, due to finance. Several decades later, he would oversee rewrites on the 2013 remake.
Following this Cohen scripted a simplified film adaptation of Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story in 1981. He also adapted two other King novels to television miniseries, the 1990 version of It and the 1993 version of The Tommyknock…