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Remembering Alien's Yaphet Kotto

IGN Insider 16 Mar 2021

It doesn’t matter where you first saw Yaphet Kotto, be it on a rerun of Bonanza or Night Gallery or in one of his dozens of big-screen roles. Once you did see him, you couldn’t take your eyes off him ... Ask some people and they’ll say Lt ... “Dan O’Bannon and Ron [Ronald Shusett, who received a Story By credit] put together an incredible script ... .

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CS Interview: Marshall Bell On Playing Kuato in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall

Coming Soon 04 Dec 2020

Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, and Gary Oldman from a story by Shusett, O’Bannon, and Jon Povill, the classic sci-fi feature tells the story of a construction worker who suddenly finds himself embroiled in espionage on Mars and unable to determine if the experiences are real or the result of memory implants.

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Total Recall (1990) review — 30 years later, still not sure what’s going on

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Nov 2020

This original Martian adventure, from the Alien writers Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett and the director Paul Verhoeven, is a weighty sci-fi classic now lavishly ...

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CS Soapbox: Franchises That Need to End Following Fast & Furious

Coming Soon 22 Oct 2020

41 years ago, Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett and Ridley Scott introduced audiences to the terrifying creature that is the Xenomorph in the Oscar-winning Alien starring Sigourney Weaver as the now-iconic heroine Ellen Ripley, and though James Cameron initially kept the franchise ...

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The 50 Best Horror Movies

Empire 08 Oct 2020

It’s October, and that means one thing – cramming every evening for the next few weeks with terrifying horror movies ... READ MORE. The 20 Best Zombie Movies ... It's not easy to make a film that can rank among the best in both the horror genre and the world of science fiction, but Scott and writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett make it look easy.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals Total Recall’s Producer Did Not Want To Cast Him Originally

Cinema Blend 09 Jun 2020

Casting ... Because Dino De Laurentiis had it ... What's even crazier than the fact that Total Recall spent almost a whole decade in the powerful producer’s hands, and never got made, was the fact that legendary horror director David Cronenberg couldn’t crack revising the original script, written by Alien masterminds Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett ... .

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Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best

The Observer 01 Jun 2020

Total Recall is a movie about a totalitarian government that’s colonized another planet so it can charge ordinary people to breathe. There would be no conflict in the film without it ... Read more ... Twitter ... From there, Verhoeven, working from a heavily fussed-over screenplay credited to Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Gary Goldman, departs from the text.

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Alien: The Original Screenplay Comic Book Coming From Dark Horse

Coming Soon 17 Jan 2020

BEGIN SLIDESHOW. Dark Horse to Release Comic Based On Dan O’Bannon’s Original Alien Screenplay ... RELATED. House of the Dragon ... The original screenplay was written by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, but then heavily rewritten in an uncredited pass by producer Walter Hill, who made radical changes including making Ripley a woman ... RELATED ... ... .

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‘Origins’ doc a must for fans of ‘Alien’

Boston Herald 25 Oct 2019

MOVIE REVIEW. “MEMORY ... A- ... Also among those interviewed are a caffeinated Ben Mankiewicz, the legendary Roger Corman, who advised O’Bannon to try to find big budget backing for his screenplay, O’Bannon’s widow Diane O’Bannon, Nerdist correspondent Clarke Wolfe, co-writer Ronald Shusett and Tom Skerritt, skipper of the Nostromo.

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Our Film Critics' Picks for This Weekend

The Stranger 18 Oct 2019

The Beacon describes this as "a sleepy seaside town east-coast-vs-west-coast horror double bill!" The East Coast is represented by Dead & Buried, a strange, schlocky feature written by Alien's team of Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett about murdered tourists returning as zombies to terrorize a New England town.

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Memory: The Origins Of Alien Review - New Documentary Goes Deep

Gamespot 05 Oct 2019

The Origin of Alien. However, anyone who saw director Alexandre O ... Once the documentary moves into the writing of the Alien script--which began with an early concept called Memory and later became a full script co-written with Ronald Shusett that had the title Star Beast--it's inevitable that some of the better known backstory is covered ... .

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‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ Film Review: A Critical Dive Into Cinema’s Most Famous Chest Wound

The Wrap 02 Oct 2019

Alexandre O. Phillippe’s “Memory. The Origins of Alien” isn’t just a documentary about the making of “Alien”; it’s also an act of film criticism ... Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” written by Dan O’Bannon with a co-story credit by Ronald Shusett, is one of the most celebrated films of its kind.

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The Greatest Villains Of All Time

Empire 07 Sep 2019

We asked you to vote for your favourite movie villains, and you went at it like Hannibal Lecter tackling a cadaver ... 20. Michael Myers. Halloween series (1978-2018) ... When Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett wrote their treatment for Star Beast back in the mid-’70s, they can have had little idea they were creating one of the most enduring monsters in cinema.

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Virtually every film coming out this fall

The Bryan Eagle 02 Sep 2019

We’ve compiled a list of films set to premiere this fall, from Sept. 6 through Nov. 8. All dates subject to change. FRIDAY. “Becoming Nobody”. Documentary on the life and teachings of Ram Dass ... “Blink of an Eye” ... Documentary on the making of the 1979 sci-fi classic featuring Veronica Cartwright, Roger Christian, Tom Skerritt, Ronald Shusett, Roger Corman.