Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 to December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director and visual effects supervisor, most closely associated with the science fiction and horror genres. He wrote the screenplay for Alien, adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett, and he wrote and directed the cult horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead. He contributed computer animation to Star Wars and worked on Dark Star, Heavy Metal and Total Recall. The atlas records him as a co-creator of the Alien franchise.