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Dan O'Bannon, the man who gave the world Alien and Total Recall, has died aged 63, the New York Times reports. O'Bannon passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California, last Thursday, as a result of the gastrointestinal disorder Crohn’s disease, which he'd suffered for 30 years. O'Bannon's sci-fi screenwriting career …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    More tears shed

    RIP. go in peace.

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  2. Gobhicks
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    Teach it phenomenology

    Sad news indeed. Dan deserves sainthood for Dark Star alone.

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  3. Roger Greenwood
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    Dark Star is my favourite film . .

    . . of all time.

    I will raise a glass to him later.

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    1. Richard 23
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      Alien

      Oh Yes

      Dark Star - matchless

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Bill Froog - Liquid Fuel Maintenance Engineer

    Farewell.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Nooooooooo......

    ...."your are false data!"

    <explosion>

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Pinback's Video Diary

    Last week I told Doolittle to SOUND DELETED and he said 'Pinback SOUND DELETED GESTURE DELETED and I said GESTURE DELETED GESTURE DELETED

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  7. Darren Davis
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    RIP Pinback

    Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair

    My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there

    Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky

    But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I

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  8. Markus Wallett
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    A man with one or two great ideas

    I think you'll find that Walter Hill and David Giler were the true brains behind Alien. They totally reworked and rewrote O'Bannon's screenplay, which had an all-male crew, a ship called the Snark and alien eggs in a pyramid.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Ah the internets

      Where speaking ill of your predeceased betters comes as naturally as breathing.

      RIP

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  10. The Islander
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    Performance stealer ...

    ... in Dark Star when he feeds and eh ... reprimands the unfortunate adopted alien. And logs a report (to camera) of his personation of himself.

    What a waste at only 63.

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  11. Rattus Rattus

    RIP, Dan

    you and your talent will be missed.

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  12. adifferentbob

    Rest In Peaece

    My condolences to his family and friends. A great man. Dark Star is a wonderful film. Personally I'd give him Sainthood for the scene with the Beach Ball in the lift.

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  13. Bottle_Cap
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    awww

    another one gone then. :(

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  14. David Stever
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    How to convince the bomb not to explode

    Teach the bomb phenomenology!

    Thanks goodness for the dead and frozen captain.

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  15. James Hughes 1

    As someone who has Crohns.

    This article is a bit depressing.

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  16. Sam Therapy
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    RIP

    Gret imaginative writer. A sad loss.

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