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TIL that a 29-year-old J. J. Abrams did uncredited work with Steven Spielberg on the script for 'Casper' (1995), with Spielberg making the movie "one night at a time...there was a script, but they ended up basically improvising every night over dinner, and the next day, they'd film it".

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