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Ronald Shusett (born June 1935) is an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for his works in the science fiction genre. He wrote the original story for Alien (1979) with Dan O'Bannon and later Alien vs. Predator (2004).
Ronald Shusett. Writer: Alien. Ronald Shusett was born to David and Fanny Shusett in June 1935. His younger brother Gary (1941 - 2013) founded the Sherwood Oaks Film School.
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Aug 9, 2016 · But his most famous effort remains the 1979 classic ALIEN, about a crew of astronauts bedeviled by an unstoppable alien on board their ship. The lean, simple story-line, coupled with considerable visual brilliance, resulted in a stylish masterpiece of Gothic horror set in outer space.
May 12, 2017 · Fortunately for him, one of those friends was another aspiring sci-fi writer, Ronald Shusett, and in one of their late nights spent chewing the fat and bemoaning their fate they came up with the basic idea for a story called Alien.
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Ronald Shusett (born June 28, 1935) is an American film writer and producer who co-wrote the 1979 film Alien with Dan O'Bannon and the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator with Dan O'Bannon and Paul W. S. Anderson. He also served as executive producer on Alien.
In 1974, he was the first to option the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", which eventually became the film Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shusett is sometimes credited as Thilo T. Newman.
•W (1974) — story
•Alien (1979) — story, executive producer
•Phobia (1980) — story
•Dead & Buried (1981) — screenwriter, producer
•The Final Terror (1983) — screenwriter
•King Kong Lives (1986) — screenwriter, executive producer
•Ronald Shusett at the Internet Movie Database
May 23, 2019 · Fellow screenwriter Ronald Shusett saw an early draft of O’Bannon’s story about a team of astronauts awoken from cryosleep, then titled Memory, and was so excited he set aside his draft of...
Ronald Shusett (born June 1935) is an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for his works in the science fiction genre. He wrote the original story for Alien (1979) with Dan O'Bannon and later Alien vs. Predator (2004).
