Dan O'Bannon

Adam says he heavily rewrote that script and made it more comedic. Adam adds that O'Bannon hated Alien even though he said it was well acted and well directed, and jokes that he disliked any change to his script.

In their own words

• Lee Love Dan O'Bannon's work.

  Ep 155 The Return of the Living Dead

• Adam but he wrote Alien, Dead and Buried, Life Force, Total Recall. so he you know, he was involved with quite a lot of really cool stuff. And actually Toby Hooper was meant to direct Return of the Living Dead and he decided to do Life Force written by Dan O'Bannon instead. So Dan O'Bannon took over as director on this. and also apparently, he was meant to play Frank. He wrote the character of Frank for him. And I'm just like, I I mean, I like Dan O'Bannon, but no, I I can only see James Karen doing it really.

  Ep 155 The Return of the Living Dead

• Adam But yeah, there was a script and then Dan O'Bannon who directed it also sort of quite heavily rewrote it and made it more comedic.

  Ep 155 The Return of the Living Dead

• Adam Dan O'Bannon hated it. He said it was well acted, well directed, but I think he was just. From what I gather, Dan O'Bannon who wrote the original scripts, which was called Star Beast before it was called Alien, so that could have been slightly shitter.

  Ep 180 Alien

• Adam Then it. It would have been because then the second film would have been Star Beasts and, you know, it's sort of yeah. But anyway. from but from what I gather in the end, I think Dan O'Bannon was like, you don't like literally any changes that were made to your script whatsoever. Do you? And, you know, that's kind of I think script writers kind of have to acknowledge that.

  Ep 180 Alien