Dan O'Bannon (I) (1946–2009) |
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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 (1974). After a failed attempt to ...
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Born:in St. Louis, Missouri, USADied:(age 63) in Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Total Recall
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Blue Thunder
(TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1984) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1984)
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[explaining his unused concept for Total Recall (1990) in an April 1991 interview] That wasn't supposed to be a three-fingered Martian handprint [on the machine]. That was supposed to have been a print of [Quaid's] hand which matched only his hand. Quaid, Earth's top secret agent, went to Mars and entered this compound. The machine killed him and created a synthetic duplicate. He is that ... See more »Trivia:
O'Bannon and John Carpenter attended USC together; the result of their meeting each other in college was the low-budget cult science-fiction parody Dark Star (1974), which started out as a student movie and was eventually expanded into a theatrical feature. See more »Star Sign:
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