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Dan O'Bannon dies...sci-fi/horror screenwriter
Sci-Fi/Horror screen writer
Star Wars (visual effects), Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Total Recall, Heavy Metal (Soft Landing & B-17), Blue Thunder, Lifeforce, Return of the Living Dead, Dark Star, Batman: Dead End (uncredited) etc.
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Dan O'Bannon, screenwriter of 'Alien,' dies at 63
An acclaimed figure in sci-fi and horror, he wrote and directed 'The Return of the Living Dead' and co-wrote 'Blue Thunder' and 'Total Recall.' His death came after a long battle with Crohn's disease.
Dan O'Bannon, the acclaimed science fiction/horror film screenwriter who was best known for writing the blockbuster hit "Alien" and who also directed and wrote the zombie fest "The Return of the Living Dead," has died. He was 63.
O'Bannon, whose credits include co-writing "Blue Thunder" and "Total Recall," died Thursday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after losing his 30-year battle with Crohn's disease, said his wife, Diane.
His career began with the low-budget 1974 sci-fi film "Dark Star," a dark comedy directed by John Carpenter that began as a USC student project and was co-written by O'Bannon and Carpenter from their original story. (O'Bannon himself played what has been described as a "reluctant, flunky astronaut.")
"Dan was enormously talented, he was acerbically funny and, I think, quite underappreciated," Carpenter, who first met O'Bannon in film school at USC, told The Times today. "I think Dan had more talent than he was allowed to show in the movie business. He was multitalented: a production designer, editor, director, writer.
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An acclaimed figure in sci-fi and horror, he wrote and directed 'The Return of the Living Dead' and co-wrote 'Blue Thunder' and 'Total Recall.' His death came after a long battle with Crohn's disease.
Dan O'Bannon, the acclaimed science fiction/horror film screenwriter who was best known for writing the blockbuster hit "Alien" and who also directed and wrote the zombie fest "The Return of the Living Dead," has died. He was 63.
O'Bannon, whose credits include co-writing "Blue Thunder" and "Total Recall," died Thursday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after losing his 30-year battle with Crohn's disease, said his wife, Diane.
His career began with the low-budget 1974 sci-fi film "Dark Star," a dark comedy directed by John Carpenter that began as a USC student project and was co-written by O'Bannon and Carpenter from their original story. (O'Bannon himself played what has been described as a "reluctant, flunky astronaut.")
"Dan was enormously talented, he was acerbically funny and, I think, quite underappreciated," Carpenter, who first met O'Bannon in film school at USC, told The Times today. "I think Dan had more talent than he was allowed to show in the movie business. He was multitalented: a production designer, editor, director, writer.
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