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Rockne S. O'Bannon is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 12 january 1955 at Los Angeles (USA)
Rockne S. O'Bannon is a television producer and writer. He is the creator of the science fiction film Alien Nation and the television series seaQuest DSV, The Triangle, Farscape, Cult and Defiance.
He is married with one daughter and two sons and resides in California.
O'Bannon grew up the son of a gaffer, he was surrounded by film from his birth. His father worked on various films through Warner Bros. golden age, and his mother was a professional dancer who performed with Fred Astaire.
He started writing in high school, and wrote many spec scripts (works written "on speculation", without a verbal or written contract), and eventually submitted them to NBC's Amazing Stories and CBS's The Twilight Zone (1985). CBS bought one of them, and after a second script sale for The Twilight Zone, he was hired on as a staff writer.
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Rockne S. O'Bannon
He is married with one daughter and two sons and resides in California.
O'Bannon grew up the son of a gaffer, he was surrounded by film from his birth. His father worked on various films through Warner Bros. golden age, and his mother was a professional dancer who performed with Fred Astaire.
He started writing in high school, and wrote many spec scripts (works written "on speculation", without a verbal or written contract), and eventually submitted them to NBC's Amazing Stories and CBS's The Twilight Zone (1985). CBS bought one of them, and after a second script sale for The Twilight Zone, he was hired on as a staff writer.
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Filmography of Rockne S. O'Bannon (13 films)
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, 1h30Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects
Actors Robert Hays, Nancy Stafford, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Philips, Danielle von Zerneck, Dennis Christopher
Rating40%
Killer Bees trap a family inside their California country home.
Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Nancy Stafford, Robert Hays, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Philips, Danielle von Zerneck, Dennis Christopher
Rating40%
Une petite ville est touchée par une invasion d'abeilles tueuses qui déciment tout ce qui se trouve sur leur passage.
Fear (1990)
, 1h30Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael O'Keefe, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Keone Young
Rating60%
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) is a psychic gifted in a form of remote viewing and empathy/telepathy that allows her to mentally link with murderers enabling police to catch them. That is until she encounters the mysterious and elusive Shadow Man (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who is not only similarly blessed, but is more powerful than she is.
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The Triangle (2005)
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Davison, Sam Neill, Michael E. Rodgers
Roles Teleplay
Rating64%
Une équipe d'experts venus d'horizons différents est chargée par un richissime homme d'affaires de découvrir la vérité sur le triangle des Bermudes où ont disparu plusieurs de ses navires. Leur enquête les mènera à rencontrer des réalités alternatives perturbantes pour chacun d'entre eux.
Fatal Error (1999)
, 1h31Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films
Actors Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Janine Turner, Robert Wagner, Malcolm Stewart
Roles Teleplay
Rating42%
À Seattle, un groupe d'avocats attend une télé-connexion avec l'Australie pour une conférence en duplex. Bientôt, le signal est établi. Soudainement, les hommes de loi sont pris de foudroyants malaises. La mort est quasi instantanée. Nick Baldwin, un scientifique, intervient quelque temps plus tard auprès de policiers afin de les aider à maîtriser un forcené. Le dénommé Tarrance, devenu fou, raconte à Baldwin l'agonie des malheureux. Une fois arrivé à la morgue pour examiner les corps, Baldwin en arrive à la conclusion qu'un virus pourrait être la cause du décès. L'épidémie menace.
Creature (1998)
Directed by Stuart Gillard, Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks, Natural horror films
Actors Craig T. Nelson, Ronald Guttman, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, Karen Sillas, Cress Williams
Roles Teleplay
Rating50%
The film starts with Richland (Feore), who was sent to visit a government facility on a remote island. He follows Peniston (Esposito) into the facility. The head scientist Dr.Bishop (Reineke) shows them the projects he is working on, including a shark and dolphin hybrid with the ability to adapt to any environment, as well as a human and shark hybrid (the creature). It breaks free from its tank and kills Dr. Bishop. Richland orders Peniston to kill it, but Peniston instead traps the Creature in a containment unit and dumps it in the sea.
Invasion (1997)
, 2h55Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Luke Perry, Kim Cattrall, Rebecca Gayheart, Christopher Orr, Jon Polito, Neal McDonough
Roles Writer
Rating55%
Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched, trigger a latent virus that has always existed in humans and begins mutating them into an alien species. Taking advantage of its hive mentality, the aliens are absolutely dedicated to transforming every human on Earth and do so with alarming swiftness. Only a small group of remaining humans have the medical knowledge to devise antibodies to reverse the effects of the virus.
, 1h30Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Jenny Gago, Peggy McCay
Roles Characters
Rating64%
The plot introduces the idea that among the Tenctonese slaves, there was a resistance movement called the Udara who were implanted with hypnotic suggestions to act as sleeper agents. Now, here on Earth, someone has found a way to activate these sleeper agents, and send them out as assassins.
Alien Nation: Millennium (1996)
, 1h30Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Jason Behr, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, David Faustino
Roles Characters
Rating62%
The plot follows human detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco as they investigate a mind-altering Tenctonese artifact being used to lure followers into a deadly cult. The artifact used in this movie was the same one from Alien Nation episode Generation to Generation.
, 1h31Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Joe Lando, Tiny Ron Taylor
Roles Characters
Rating64%
In this movie, detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco investigate a group of Tenctonese called the Eenos. The sub-plot involves Tenctonese binnaum Albert Einstein and his new bride May attempting to have a child (with George's help) -- a reversal of the Alien Nation episode Three to Tango.
, 1h30Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects
Actors Robert Hays, Nancy Stafford, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Philips, Danielle von Zerneck, Dennis Christopher
Roles Teleplay
Rating40%
Killer Bees trap a family inside their California country home.
Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Nancy Stafford, Robert Hays, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Philips, Danielle von Zerneck, Dennis Christopher
Roles Teleplay
Rating40%
Une petite ville est touchée par une invasion d'abeilles tueuses qui déciment tout ce qui se trouve sur leur passage.
Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Leon Russom, Jenny Gago
Roles Characters
Rating65%
It follows the television series format of two parallel storylines. The first plot is about a seemingly human-Tenctonese hybrid child involved in a sinister experiment with a Newcomer scientist disguised as a human. The sub-plot is the budding relationship between Matt Sikes and his Tenctonese neighbor Dr. Cathy Frankel. The relationship between Matt and Cathy was an ongoing theme of the Alien Nation television series.
Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994)
, 1h30Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Jenny Gago, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Patience Cleveland
Roles Characters
Rating64%
In a recapitulation of the series cliffhanger, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon begins with Susan Francisco and her daughter Emily falling victim to a newly developed bacterial infection that was created by a group of human Purists to exterminate the Newcomer species. There is also a new sub-plot running parallel to this one, the story of Ahpossno, a Tenctonese Overseer who lands on Earth to find any surviving Tenctonese and bring them back into slavery. The idea of a signal sent into space by the surviving Overseers was explored in the Alien Nation episode Contact.
Fear (1990)
, 1h30Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael O'Keefe, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Keone Young
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) is a psychic gifted in a form of remote viewing and empathy/telepathy that allows her to mentally link with murderers enabling police to catch them. That is until she encounters the mysterious and elusive Shadow Man (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who is not only similarly blessed, but is more powerful than she is.