Tag: Dan O’Bannon

Total Recall (2012) Script

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Year:2012
Director:Len Wiseman
Written by:Philip K. Dick (Story), Jon Povill (Screenstory), Dan O'Bannon (Screenstory), Ronald Shusett (Screenstory), Kurt Wimmer (Screenplay), Kurt Wimmer (Screenstory), Mark Bomback (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.
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Alien: Covenant Script

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Year:2017
Director:Ridley Scott
Written by:John Logan (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Characters), Ronald Shusett (Characters), Michael Green (Story), Dante Harper (Screenplay), Jack Paglen (Story)

Script Synopsis:Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world—which has a sole inhabitant: the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Alien: Covenant Script Resources:

  • Alien: Covenant Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Alien: Covenant Script PDF - [EARLY 11-20-2015 DRAFT] at Script Fly ($)

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The Return Of The Living Dead Script

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Year:1985
Director:Dan O'Bannon
Written by:Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), John A. Russo (Novel)

Script Synopsis:When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
The Return Of The Living Dead Script Resources:

  • The Return Of The Living Dead Script PDF at Script Slug
  • The Return Of The Living Dead Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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  • The Return Of The Living Dead ( tt0089907 ) at IMDb
  • The Return Of The Living Dead ( 10925 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Total Recall

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Year:1990
Director:Paul Verhoeven
Written by:Ronald Shusett (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), Gary Goldman (Screenplay), Philip K. Dick (Author), Jon Povill (Screenstory)

Script Synopsis:Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
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Dark Star

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Year:1974
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:John Carpenter (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
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Invaders From Mars

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Year:1986
Director:Tobe Hooper
Written by:Richard Blake (Original Story), Don Jakoby (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
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Dead and Buried

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Year:1981
Director:Gary Sherman
Written by:Jeff Millar (Story), Alex Stern (Story), Ronald Shusett (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Dead and Buried Script Resources:

  • Dead and Buried Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Dead and Buried Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)

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Screamers

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Year:1995
Director:Christian Duguay
Written by:Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), Miguel Tejada-Flores (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
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Alien

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Year:1979
Director:Ridley Scott
Written by:Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), Ronald Shusett (Writer)

Script Synopsis:During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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