a cast featuring Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall earned well over US$100 million. An earlier screenplay by the duo titled Hemoglobin was also produced as the low budget feature Bleeders (1997). O'Bannon's second directorial feature, The Resurrected (1991), was a low-budget horror effort released direct-to-video. Based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, it focused on a family's ancient rituals that awaken the dead. In 1995, O'Bannon received a co-writing credit for the sci-fi film Screamers adapted from the Philip K. Dick story "Second Variety", having written the initial version of the screenplay with Michael Campus in the early 1980s. 2000s In 2001, O'Bannon was the filmmaker-in-residence at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. O'Bannon and Shusett were credited as writers on the 2004 science fiction film Alien vs. Predator, a prequel to Alien. Posthumous In 2013, Dan O'Bannon's Guide to Screenplay Structure was released, co-written with Matt R. Lohr. Personal life and death He and his wife Diane had a son, Adam. O'Bannon died from complications of Crohn's disease in Los Angeles on December 17, 2009. He credited his experiences with Crohn's for inspiring the chest-bursting scene from Alien. Filmography Also uncredited re-writer in Phobia (1980). References External links December 2007 Den Of Geek interview with Dan O'Bannon 1946 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American screenwriters American male film actors American film directors American male screenwriters American science fiction writers Deaths from Crohn's disease Hugo Award-winning writers Inkpot Award winners Male actors from St. Louis USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Horror film directors Screenwriting instructors Writers of books about writing fiction Screenwriters from Missouri 21st-century American male writers