Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (30 September 1946 – 17 December 2009) was an American writer, actor and filmmaker who directed the 1991 film The Resurrected, adapted from H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Hemoglobin, based on Lovecraft's short story "The Lurking Fear".
His writing credits also include Lovecraftian blends of horror and science fiction, such as the 1979 film Alien, which introduces the Xenomorph species, and the 1985 film Lifeforce, adapted from Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires.
O'Bannon has also worked with special effects on various films, such as the 1977 space opera Star Wars.
==Influences==
O'Bannon has stated in several interviews how the works of H. P. Lovecraft have been an influence on his own. At age 11 or 12, he first discovered Lovecraft through the short story "The Colour Out of Space"; he later sought out more of his fiction, as it had had such a profound effect on him Excerpts from interviews with Dan O'Bannon at the Alien Explorations blogspot. 
He has also claimed that when writing the screenplay for Alien, he had intended for there to be a direct connection between the Xenomorphs and the Outer God Yog-Sothoth; this was removed from the final draft . His claim is supported in the finale of the prequel movie Alien: Covenant, when the antagonist removes human embryos from storage and replaces them with Xenomorph embryos, to the tune of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (popularly known in English as "Entry Of the Gods Into Valhalla").
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