According to Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon has passed away. If you’re on this site, you’re surely familiar with his work. The man created Alien, worked on John Carpenter’s Dark Star, and was on the visual effects crew for a little film called Star Wars.
In addition to these, O’Bannon wrote an excellent little film called Dead & Buried, as well as Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed), Tobe Hooper’s space vampire epic, Lifeforce, and the 1986 remake of Invaders from Mars (also Hooper). He also gave us Total Recall.
We’ve lost one of the greats today, people.
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