tylergfoster

Co-writer of Alien and Dark Star and writer/director Return of the Living Dead.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639321/

http://twitter.com/headgeek666/status/6788235249 and http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43415

RagingBull80

Rest in peace.

statcat

Really sad, he's associated with a lot of great stuff.

Boba Fett

I knew he must have been in bad shape when he cancelled an appearance at Portland's annual HP Lovecraft festival.

Moonstone

Rip

LickTheABCs

That sucks. RIP.

NIMH Rat

Big fan. What a letdown.

RIP....until the acid rain.

Troy Stiffler

Return of the Living Dead always fascinated me when I was younger. It was thrilling, scary, and always fun. First horror movie that I ever saw like that.

And, for some reason, Dan O'Bannon was one of the first names that stuck in my head, when I was ten-or-so, just watching and learning about movies.

RIP

Greg MacGuffin

I saw him speak at a screenwriting conference a few years ago in Los Angeles. Sad to hear of his passing.

JackBurton

I'll have to give the Alien supplements a spin this weekend.

Trevor

DRG

Return of the Living Dead is one of my all-time favorites, and I love his segment in Heavy Metal.

RIP

Geofferson

Very sad news. I'll give ROTLD a spin this weekend.

TheNightFlier

That sucks. RIP

islandclaws

He made some great contributions to the world of horror. Sad to hear about this.

SethDLH

I'm pretty bummed right now. I woke up in a great mood (doesn't happen often haha) and literally the second thing I saw on the net was of his passing. As someone else said his name was one of the first I remembered when I was younger, and I've been a fan of his for 2/3 of my life. RIP

Sean O'Hara

THIS JUST IN: O'Bannon isn't dead, though he appears to have major medical problems. I just received a message from him saying, "Send more paramedics."

Jason Bovberg

Had the pleasure of meeting him at a Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, way back when that show was cool. Twenty years ago? The cast of Return of the Living Dead was there (signed my poster!), but I just talked to him. Mostly about Alien.

Well, OK, I talked to Linnea Quigley a lot, too.

Sad day. Too young!

clckworang

I feel so embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize he was writer/director of Return of the Living Dead.

Eric D.

I am quite upset to hear that he passed away. I was always a huge fan of his work and like others here, he was one of the first people I was aware of when researching my favorite films as a kid.

Kurt D

Passing of a giant, and way too young. For a time there, every making-of doc I watched had him in it. I like the idea of him crawling out of the grave to eat our braaaiiiins, though.

Supermallet

Alien is one of my all time favorite films. He will be missed.

MTRodaba2468

I've always enjoyed both Alien and Dark Star.

HighSpeedOnIce

VERY sad news to me!!
R.I.P. Dan!!

riotinmyskull

thanks for everything...RIP