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Filmography
2019
Alien: Ore
(Short) (based on characters created by)
2012/I
Total Recall
(based on the motion picture "Total Recall", screen story by) / (based on the motion picture "Total Recall", screenplay by) / (screen story by)
1992
Alien³
(Video Game) (characters)
1986
Aliens
(based on characters created by)
Blue Thunder
(TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1984) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1984)
1981
Heavy Metal
(original story - segment "Soft Landing") / (story - segment "B-17")
1979
Alien
(screenplay by) / (story by)
1974
Dark Star
(original story by) / (screenplay by)
1984
Blue Thunder
(TV Series) (executive story consultant - 6 episodes)
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Payload
(1984)
... (executive story consultant)
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Arms Race
(1984)
... (executive story consultant)
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Actor (5 credits)
1977
Star Wars
(computer animation and graphic displays: miniature and optical effects unit)
1979
Alien
(visual design consultant)
2002
The 'Alien' Saga
(TV Movie documentary) (acknowledgment: still photographs courtesy of)
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Self (20 credits)
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Height:
5' 6" (1.68 m)
Spouse:
Diane Louise Lindley
(his death)
(1 child)
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Personal Quote:
With "Alien", I figured out quite simply that, as an audience member, what you DON'T see scares you more than what you see. In horror films, the scares that really grab the audience and build the tension for them don't come from the monster jumping out of the shadows! The terror comes from the slow times in between those pay-off scenes in which the characters are talking and planning -- waiting ...
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Trivia:
Dan O'Bannon had been working on the screenplay for
Screamers (1995) as early as 1981. The October 10, 1984, draft credits
Michael Campus as co-writer. It is unknown whether Campus also intended to direct.
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