Dan O'Bannon

Dan O’Bannon was a screenwriter, director and effects artist closely associated with science fiction and horror cinema. At the University of Southern California he collaborated with John Carpenter on Dark Star, contributing to its script, editing and acting before its expansion into a feature in 1974.

He wrote Alien from a story developed with Ronald Shusett and later collaborated on Total Recall. His other credits include Blue Thunder, Lifeforce and Invaders from Mars. He directed The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and The Resurrected (1992). O’Bannon died in 2009.