Dan O'Bannon was film screenwriter and director on various projects.
== Career ===== 1970s ===It was at USC that he met John Carpenter and collaborated with him on a student film,  which they eventually expanded into the feature-length science fiction movie Dark Star
  He and Jakoby also scripted Lifeforce (1985), a movie based on Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires and directed by Tobe Hooper that veers from alien visitation to vampirism and an apocalyptic ending

