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It has long been rumored and it is reported that screenwriter and director M. Night Shyamalanbest known for his thrillers The sixth sense, UnbreakableAnd Signsactually wrote the 1999 teen romantic comedy, She is all that. Now, if you watch the movie on IMDb, you’ll see that the screenwriter credited for the movie is R. Lee Fleming Jr., but if you listen to the movie’s audio commentary, you’ll hear director Robert Iscove say Shyamalan perfected the movie script.

Since there probably weren’t many people who heard the audio commentary, the news didn’t break until an interview with Movies.com, in which Shyamalan said, “I wrote the movie like a ghost She is all that”, and the news really began to spread. But that’s when R. Lee Fleming Jr. stepped in to try and refute the claim. When a Twitter user, James Mitchell he wrote“OMG, at the end of his career, it turns out he was a ghost writer all along #spoileralert” – referring to Shyamalan – Fleming replied with this tweet (since deleted):

“Only in his mind, James.”

More recently, Fleming also tweeted (and deleted) a quote attributed to Mark Twain, which read:

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

So who’s right? Both writers, according to film producer and NYU adjunct professor Jack Lechner, who was head of development for Miramax in the late 1990s. As Lechner explained in a comment left on The Mary Sue on Monday:

“R. Lee Fleming wrote the script that we bought, which is recognizably the same movie you’ve seen (if you’ve seen SHE IS ALL THAT). M. Night Shyamalan did an uncredited rewrite of the script, and a very good one that greenlit the film.

EW called Lechner just to make sure the comment was legit — and after confirming he wrote it, reiterated that Shyamalan “did more than polish” to the film’s script:

“He did a solid rewrite … He made it deeper, he made the characters richer.”

“I can understand how Fleming would say it’s his movie, and I can understand why M. Night would say it’s his movie,” Lechner continued. “They’re both right.”

I understand why you would want to be credited for writing a movie, but I also think that nobody cares that much about the script of She is all that all these years later. That doesn’t change the fact that Shyamalan has had a solid film career and Fleming has had a solid TV writing career. Good for both, hopefully they can move on.