Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was a a motion-picture screenwriter and director. George Lucas met O'Bannon while both were in the USC School of Cinema-Television, and later brought him to work on computer animation and graphic displays for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

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