Dan O'Bannon Archives

Diane O'Bannon, the widow of comics and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, has posted to social media "Heavy Metal still hasn't made up its mind to deal with The O'Bannon Company about using Dan's "B-17" concept in the comic they want to put out I sure wish they'd give my attorney a call so they can release[...]

Cold Iron Studios and 20th Century games announced a major game from the Alien franchise today with Aliens: Fireteam.

Last month Bleeding Cool scooped the news that questions were being raised over Heavy Metal Magazine's decision to publish new comic book series based on Dan O'Bannon's B-17 story from the Heavy Metal animated movie One cover-featured story ran in Heavy Metal Magazine #300 Another was a sequel series called Cold Dead War written by[...]

The magazine featured, among many other stories, a new B-17 comic book story, the cover featured. Heavy Metal #300 cover featuring Dan O'Bannon's B-17. He stated, "Taarna and B‑17 are the two serials from the original animated film that Heavy Metal owns In addition to having short stories in the new monthly rotation of the magazine, both of[...]

"The Long Tomorrow" was written by Dan O'Bannon, a screenwriter for Ridley Scott's Alien (1978), itself regarded for its worn down, lived-in future environment The short story's narrative, set in the far future, parodies American film noir, a term for crime dramas from the 1940s and 1950s that Gyan Prakah, in the introduction to Noir[...]