Editing William Goldman (section)

===Return to Hollywood===
Goldman attributed his return to Hollywood to signing with talent agent [[Michael Ovitz]] at [[Creative Artists Agency]]. He went to work on ''[[Memoirs of an Invisible Man]]'', although he left the project relatively early.

Hollywood's interest in Goldman was reawakened; he wrote the scripts for film versions of ''[[Heat (1986 film)|Heat]]'' (1986) and ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' (1987). The latter was directed by [[Rob Reiner]] for [[Castle Rock Entertainment|Castle Rock]], which hired Goldman to write the screenplay for Rob Reiner's 1990 [[Misery (film)|adaptation]] of [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Misery (book)|Misery]]'', considered "one of [King's] least adaptable novels".<ref name=ign/> The movie, for which [[Kathy Bates]] received an [[Academy Award]], performed well with critics and at the box office.<ref name= ign />

Goldman continued to write nonfiction regularly. He published a collection of sports writing, ''[[Wait Till Next Year]]'' (1988) and an account of his time as a judge at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Miss America Pageant, ''[[Hype and Glory]]'' (1990).

Goldman began to work steadily as a "[[script doctor]]", doing uncredited work on films including ''[[Twins (1988 film)|Twins]]'' (1988), ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' (1992), ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'' (1993), ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' (1993), ''Malice'' (1994), ''[[Dolores Claiborne (film)|Dolores Claiborne]]'' (1995), and ''[[Extreme Measures]]''. Most of these movies were by Castle Rock.

He was credited on several other movies: ''[[Year of the Comet]]'' (1992), which was eventually filmed by Castle Rock, but was not a success; the biopic ''[[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]]'' (1992), directed by [[Richard Attenborough]]; ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'' (1994), a popular hit; ''[[The Chamber (1996 film)|The Chamber]]'' (1996), from a novel by [[John Grisham]]; ''[[The Ghost and the Darkness]]'' (1996), an original script based on a true story; ''[[Absolute Power (film)|Absolute Power]]'' (1997) for [[Clint Eastwood]]; and ''[[The General's Daughter (film)|The General's Daughter]]'' (1999), from the novel by [[Nelson DeMille]].