Dan O’Bannon

Date of Birth

1946-09-30

Date of Death

2009-12-17

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Known for

Dark Star, Jodorowsky’s Dune

Most Popular Stories

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Awesome Art: Zombie Horror with, 28 Years Later, The Evil Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Train To Busan, The Walking Dead

Posted 1 year ago

Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted...

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 1 year ago

The Revisited series looks back at the 1985 punk rock zombie classic The Return of the Living Dead, directed by Dan O'Bannon

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Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net: Garreth Gibson

Posted 2 years ago

For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to...

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Alien producer David Giler had died at the age of 77

Posted 6 years ago

Sad news to report today as it has been announced that writer and producer David Giler, best known for his involvement in the Alien franchise, has died of cancer at the age of 77. His longtime friend and writing and...

Alien TV series confirmed with Noah Hawley developing for FX

Posted 6 years ago

It was announced today by FX CEO John Landgraf that Noah Hawley (Fargo) will be developing an Alien TV series for FX, with Alien director Ridley Scott in advanced talks to executive produce the project. Noah Hawley will serve as...

New Alien series from Marvel Comics announced for March

Posted 6 years ago

Not long after Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) teased that Disney may be playing with the concept of launching a television series based on Dan O'Bannon, Ridley Scott, and Ronald Schusett's Alien franchise, Marvel has announced its first new Alien comic book series. Alien #1,...

Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985) – WTF Happened to this Movie?

Posted 6 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes. Horror director Tobe Hooper’s 1985 sci-fi spectacle LIFEFORCE has earned cult...

Noah Hawley sheds a little light on his pitch for an Alien TV series

Posted 6 years ago

Thanks to his exemplary work on Legion and Fargo, Noah Hawley has proven that he can do wondrous things on the small-screen, but that doesn't mean all of his projects will see the light of day. It was revealed last...

Walter Hill teases first details on his idea for 5th Ellen Ripley Alien film

Posted 6 years ago

Sigourney Weaver last stepped into the shoes of Ellen Ripley more than twenty years ago in ALIEN: RESURRECTION, but that hasn't stopped fans from demanding that Weaver return to reprise the role in a new ALIEN film. There have been...

Quentin Tarantino personally recommends dozens of movies from 1979

Posted 6 years ago

Like everyone else stuck at home, I am plowing through movies both familiar and new. On the lookout for recommendations for what to watch next, I stumbled across an interview Quentin Tarantino had with W Magazine. A connoisseur of the...

Screw it; why not get a life-size, 8-foot tall Xenomorph statue for $8000

Posted 6 years ago

As many of us continue to self-isolate during the COVID-19 crisis, I'm sure that more than a few of you have made some questionable online purchases after you've given up on your sourdough starter, and if you've got the dough,...

Dan O’Bannon’s original Alien script gets 5-part Dark Horse comic in April

Posted 7 years ago

Dark Horse will unleash a 5-part mini-comic adaptation of Dan O'Bannon's original screenplay for ALIEN this April. The adaptation comes courtesy of Cristiano Seixas and Guilherme Balbi and is fittingly dubbed ALIEN: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. It follows in the footsteps of...

WTF Happened to Alien 3?

Posted 7 years ago

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset...

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