Daniel Thomas “Dan” O’Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American motion picture screenwriter, director and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres. —Wikipedia
Everybody stop for a minute. Dan O’Banno has died. He’s a geek icon, but you may know him as the screenwriter and creator of much that is fantastic about Ridley Scott’s Alien. Not to mention one of the greatest zombie movies of all time: Return of the Living Dead.