Which company produced the science fiction hit that the American screenwriter born on September 30, 1946 was involved with?
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Alien (film) Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship. Dan O'Bannon, drawing upon previous works of science fiction and horror, wrote the screenplay from a story he co-authored with Ronald Shusett. The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script. Shusett was executive producer. The eponymous Alien and its accompanying elements were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human aspects of the film.
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Dan O'Bannon Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.
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The Alien Encounters The Alien Encounters is a 1979 science fiction film written and directed by James T. Flocker. It is an American B movie which follows the story of an investigator who is sent to locate an alien probe which has landed on Earth. Aliens from Barnard's Star have created a machine known as a betatron which has remarkable rejuvenating effects.
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The Terrornauts The Terrornauts is a 1967 science fiction film produced by Amicus Productions. It went out on a double bill with "They Came from Beyond Space". This double bill has been called "the two worst films the company ever produced". The film is based on "The Wailing Asteroid" by Murray Leinster, adapted for screen by John Brunner.
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Planet Stories Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on some other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71 issues. "Planet Stories" was launched at the same time as "Planet Comics", the success of which probably helped to fund the early issues of "Planet Stories". "Planet Stories" did not pay well enough to regularly attract the leading science fiction writers of the day, but did on occasion manage to obtain work from well-known authors, including Isaac Asimov and Clifford D. Simak. In 1952 "Planet Stories" published Philip K. Dick's first sale, and went on to print four more of his stories over the next three years.
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The Flying Saucer The Flying Saucer is a 1950 independently made American black-and-white science fiction spy film, written by Howard Irving Young from an original story by Mikel Conrad who also produced, directed, and stars with Pat Garrison and Hantz von Teuffen. The film was distributed in the United States by Film Classics Inc. "The Flying Saucer" was re-released in 1953 in the U.S. by Realart Pictures Inc., on a double-bill with "Atomic Monster", the retitled-reissue of "Man Made Monster", originally released in 1941 by Universal Pictures.
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Lawrence Lasker Lawrence C. Lasker (born October 7, 1949) is an American screenwriter and producer who entered American film in 1983 as writer of the movie "WarGames".
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Debra Hill Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing various works of John Carpenter.
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Lincoln Enterprises Lincoln Enterprises, formerly Star Trek Enterprises, was a mail-order company set up by Bjo Trimble and Gene Roddenberry to sell merchandise related to the American science fiction television series "". It was known for selling official scripts and film cells directly from Desilu Productions during the run of the series. It later expanded into general "Star Trek" merchandise under Majel Barrett, and was since subsumed into Roddenberry.com.
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Thomas N. Scortia Thomas Nicholas Scortia (August 29, 1926 – April 29, 1986) was a science fiction author. He worked in the American aerospace industry until the late 1960s/early 1970s. He collaborated on several works with fellow author Frank M. Robinson. He sometimes used the pseudonyms "Scott Nichols", "Gerald MacDow", and "Arthur R. Kurtz."
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Peter Lefcourt Peter Lefcourt (born 1946) is an American television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist.
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John Glenn (screenwriter) John Patrick Glenn is an American screenwriter, producer, and director.
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All About Eve All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It was based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although screen credit was not given for it.
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Greydon Clark Greydon Clark (born February 7, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. His career spans several decades and genres, although the majority of his work has been low-budget productions in the action/horror genres. His most recent work was writing and directing the 1998 science fiction film "Stargames".
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Mark Hanna (screenwriter) Mark Hanna (January 1, 1917 – October 16, 2003) was an American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". His first major screenplay was "Gunslinger" in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for "Star Portal" in 1998, five years before his death.
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Rob Gerrand Rob Gerrand (born 16 October 1946) is an Australian writer of science fiction
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Howard Kazanjian Howard G. Kazanjian (born July 26, 1942) is an American film producer known for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Return of the Jedi". Kazanjian is also a former 8-year Vice President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and a published non-fiction author.
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Big World Pictures Big World Pictures is an American film production company based in Atlanta, GA. Founded in 2011 with the release of James Bickert's "Dear God No". (2011) Big World specializes in independent films - particularly of the exploitation genre. As of July 2015, the company is filming the sequel to "Dear God No" titled "Frankenstein Created Bikers" with an anticipated release in 2016. Big World has selected a cast for the film which includes Laurence R. Harvey, Tristan Risk and Ellie Church and will shoot the entire movie on 35 mm film. On March 28, 2015 the company reached a milestone in a Kickstarter campaign successfully raising over $57,000 in crowd funding from nearly 800 backers to support the film's production.
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Dark Star (film) Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship "Dark Star", twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets.
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Lynn Lowry Linda Kay "Lynn" Lowry (born October 15, 1947) is an American actress, screenwriter and producer.
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Contact (novel) Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list. The novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979; when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film "Contact" starring Jodie Foster.
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Saga of a Star World "Saga of a Star World" (or "Battlestar Galactica") is the pilot for the American science fiction television series of "Battlestar Galactica" which was produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson. A re-edit of the episode was released theatrically as Battlestar Galactica in Canada, Australia and some countries in Europe and Latin America before the television series aired in the U.S., in order to help recoup its high production costs. Later, in May 1979, the feature-film edit was also released in the U.S. (see below)