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I'm probably very misinformed, but I honestly have never read or heard anything about George Romero suing the filmmakers of "The Return of the Living Dead". I had always thought that O'Bannon wrote the film as an out-and-out comedy, including those opening lines, which I don't think were meant...

I honestly wasn't aware of those details about Return of the Living Dead. I understood the situation to be that O'Bannon specifically made the movie as out-and-out comic as possible, so as to differentiate the movie from Romero's work. The feud at the time as I understood it was between Romero...

I don't think O'Bannon had any problem with Ripley being female, or with Sigourney Weaver playing the part. I agree with you that the addition of Ash is a good thing for the movie - without it, the movie would be a fairly linear matter of the alien getting on board, attacking the crew and...

Joe, you're absolutely right. But we should also keep in mind what Dan O'Bannon writes in his foreword to his script on the disc - He says that he specifically kept the characters as undeveloped as possible, and that any of them could have been played by a man or a woman (with one exception -...

Eric, you're absolutely right that Gene Roddenberry did not actually contribute any writing to any of the Star Trek movies after the first one. He was indeed a well-paid "Executive Consultant", which was Paramount's way of making the movies without him, but throwing him enough of a bone that...

There you have the difference between the two guys. Although I have to give O'Bannon a nod for not only writing the original script, but also sticking with the project through production, including spending a lot of time with the art department, with Ron Cobb, Moebius, Chris Foss and Giger...

Nick, you're correct that the script bears many fingerprints of Walter Hill and David Giler, as does the shooting script of Alien 3. You're also correct that Hill and Giler didn't change the story other than to add the Company/Ash subplot. The WGA's 51% rule would have been applied here...

Giler and Hill absolutely added things that improved the film, and helped them lay the groundwork to make more movies using the story. I would also add that the contributions of Ridley Scott were essential, particularly since, according to O'Bannon, he was the one who joined O'Bannon in...

For the series, yes. But for the original script, O'Bannon's original concept dominated the movie. For this reason, the WGA ruled that the script was still essentially his. There are also rules about producers doing rewrites, and how much of the actual script has to be their work in order...

Alien was indeed Dan O'Bannon's creation, with input by Shusett. His original script, "Star Beast", was the initial version of what eventually got rewritten into the final film. Giler and Hill did a lot of rewriting, as was noted by the guys in the documentaries, and O'Bannon wasn't...