Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon was born on Sep 30, 1946 in USA. Dan O'Bannon's big-screen debut came with Dark Star directed by John Carpenter in 1974, strarring Pinback. Dan O'Bannon is known for Total Recall directed by Paul Verhoeven, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Quaid and Rachel Ticotin as Melina. Dan O'Bannon has got 4 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award Dan O'Bannon achieved is H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Portland. The upcoming new movie Dan O'Bannon plays is Alien: Alone which will be released on Apr 26, 2019.

Dan O'Bannon was inspired at an early age by EC Comics like Tales from the Crypt and old horror films that he saw in St. Louis. He even wrote a few stories for Heavy Metal magazine (which also showed up in the film).O'Bannon got his start when he and John Carpenter collaborated on the cult sci-fi film Dark Star - L'étoile noire (1974). After a failed attempt to make "Dune" with bizarre surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky in Europe, O'Bannon returned to the US and began work on "Star Beast" (later retitled Alien - Le 8ème passager (1979)) with Ronald Shusett (with whom he later worked again on Réincarnations (1981)). He continued working in the Sci-fi/Horror genre mostly as a script doctor, but his directorial debut, Le retour des morts vivants (1985) is known as one of the best zombie movies ever made (and as of this writing two sequels with another in production). Lately O'Bannon has been appearing in a lot of DVD documentaries discussing his work and his influences. It is also worth noting that all of his films have interesting psychological interpretations. He has a tendency to appear in bow ties.