The so-called Xenomorph is one of the greatest monsters in movie history.
The brainchild of Swiss artist H.R.
Dark Star Dawning
Dan OBannon was born in 1946, the son of a St. Louis carpenter.
Together the two of them collaborated on a project that would become their debut feature,Dark Star.
For others, these scenes are interminable, unfunny, and unprovocative.
Along the way, the crew must deal with an alien that freed itself from the storage room.
The alien doesnt do much and gets killed off fairly easily.
However, it does manage to loosen a bomb which, along with deep-space radiation, gains sentience.
The crew tries to stop the bomb by engaging in a philosophical discussion with it.
However, as both OBannon and Carpenter became bigger names,Dark Stars following grew.
Its played for laughs here, but one cannot help but think of the paranoia ofThe Thing.
Along with screenwriter Ronald Shusett, OBannon began working a project dubbedStar Beast.
I stole it from everybody.
In the end, OBannon retained screenplay credit, and a story by credit with Shuster.
But the script that directorRidley Scottused forAliencame from Hill and Giler.
Instead the studio asked Hill to take the lead, who in turn recruited Ridley Scott.
For it was OBannon who knew the work of H.R.
Giger and showed Scott the paintingNecronom IV.
Scott agreed that Gigers designs should be integrated into the film.
OBannon wrote and directed the 1985 classicReturn of the Living Dead, and worked on the screenplays forLifeforceandTotal Recall.
Not bad a bad career from a movie about a scary beach ball.
