We all know who Dan O’Bannon is, don’t we? That fella who spawned the idea for Alien. Ya know him, he wrote the original Alien script? The one with the Snark and Robbie and an all male crew? Yeah, that guy! Well Den of Geek recently got chance to interview him:
“Did you have any more input into AvP2: Requiem than just your credit as having created the alien character?
No, no. You've got to understand that Walter Hill and David Giler, who have been attached to the project from the beginning, they hate my guts. Because they're scoundrels. They thought that by pulling a couple of fast ones that they could steal my screenplay credit from the original Alien.”
The interview covers a lot of his other movies but there is quite a bit about Alien/vs Predator in there. Dan seems like quite a bitter man to tell the truth, he talks a lot about his relationship with the producers, his opinions on the direction of the franchise and his own idea for AvP – which thank God, was never realized.
Be sure to read the whole thing. Den of Geek also has two more Alien related articles up: A Call For Aliens Without The Predator and The History of Xenosex. I haven’t read them yet so I don’t know what they’re about. Thanks to geestewart for the news.
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