Temple Mathews

TEMPLE MATHEWS is an American born author and screenwriter with several films to his credit, including Disney's Return to Neverland , which grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide. Mathews also wrote The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, and the segment starring Mickey Mouse in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, both direct-to-video film for Walt Disney TV Animation. He wrote the screenplay for Aloha Scooby Doo, a DVD release for Warner Brothers Animation, and co-wrote/produced Off the Mark...See more

TEMPLE MATHEWS is an American born author and screenwriter with several films to his credit, including Disney's Return to Neverland , which grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide. Mathews also wrote The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, and the segment starring Mickey Mouse in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, both direct-to-video film for Walt Disney TV Animation. He wrote the screenplay for Aloha Scooby Doo, a DVD release for Warner Brothers Animation, and co-wrote/produced Off the Mark, a feature film released in the U.S. For television Mathews wrote Picture This starring Ashley Tisdale. In addition, he was a story editor on the daytime courtroom drama The Judge , working on over forty episodes. Mathews was also story editor on Propaganda Films' Inside Out, where he was the supervising writer on 74 episodes written and/or directed by several now-prominent directors, including Alexander Payne ( Sideways ), Richard Shepard ( The Matador ), Bernard Rose ( Immortal Beloved ), Antoine Fuqua ( Olympus Has Fallen ), as well as numerous others. Mathews has written dozens of animated TV episodes and has worked-for-hire at every major studio in Hollywood. Mathews was a producer at the American Film Institute, a graduate of the University of Washington, and Redmond High School in Redmond, Washington. In 2008 BenBella Books published Mathews's The New Kid . Its success led to the publication of two more New Kid books: The Rising: The New Kid Book Two and The Sword of Armageddon: The New Kid Book Three. Under the pen name William Payton, Mathews also wrote The Good Father, originally published by Coscom Entertainment. See less