Premise: Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction-horror film directed by Ken Russell and adapted from a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky . Ken Russell . He is best known for his Oscar-winning films Women in Love ( 1969 ) , The Devils ( 1971 ) , The Who 's Tommy ( 1975 ) , and the science fiction film Altered States ( 1980 ) . William Hurt . Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell 's science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year .
Hypothesis: Ken Russell wrote the film Altered States.
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