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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:01 am    Post subject: Dan O'Bannon 1946-2009 RIP Reply with quote

Sad

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26564
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sad to see another good one go Sad
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very sad news.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awww dayum! That sucks. I swear I recently had a dream about spotting him in a movie that I didn't think he was in.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn.RIP
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Star, Alien, Return of the Living Dead.... Dan's contribution to the genre was consiiderable. Very sad news.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIP.......a tad unnerving when....one of my peers....passes on.....whatever the illness....Dark Star is a classic.....and I can think of worse things than being remembered for chasing a beach ball all over a spaceship......very cool and very very funny......
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very sad. RIP.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

More on Dan here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/dec/18/dan-obannon-alien

One thing we all should remember about him as an influence for Blade Runner is his writing with Moebeus "The Long Tomorrow" for Heavy Metal magazine, which was one of the main influences for Ridley Scott in making BR.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, that's a real shame. Kind of a lost talent, that is talented, but never had the opportunity to do much work. Lifeforce is a nice, underrated film.

I met him once at some SF meeting where he was describing the Alien, prior to the release of Alien. Jerry Pournelle took exception to the exobiology that O'Bannon described. Amusing at the time.

I always wondered what happened to him. He did have a great sense of humor.

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