Premise: Daniel Thomas `` Dan '' O'Bannon ( September 30 , 1946 -- December 17 , 2009 ) was an American film screenwriter , director , visual effects supervisor , and occasional actor , usually in the science fiction and horror genres . He also contributed computer animation to Star Wars , worked on cult classics such as Dark Star , Heavy Metal and Total Recall , and both wrote and directed the horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead . The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American horror comedy film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon , and starring Clu Gulager , James Karen , and Don Calfa .
Hypothesis: Dan O'Bannon's work was primarily adventure and comedy.
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