 In 1982 , Kneale made another one @-@ off diversion from his usual work when he wrote his only produced Hollywood movie script , Halloween III : Season of the Witch . Kneale had initially been approached by the director John Landis to work on the screenplay for a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon , and he and his wife spent some time living at the Sheraton Hotel in Hollywood while Kneale worked on the project . The Black Lagoon script never went into production , but while in America Kneale met the director Joe Dante , who invited him to script the third film in the Halloween series , on which Dante was working . Kneale agreed , on the proviso that it would be a totally new concept unrelated to the first two films , which he had not seen and he did not like what he had heard about them . 
