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John Carpenter
Director, screenwriter, producer and composer
John Carpenter is a film director, screenwriter, producer and composer most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s.
Dark Star and The Thingdirector
John Carpenter and his co-writer Dan O’Bannon began their careers in 1974 with the science fiction dark comedy Dark Star - now considered central in the science fiction canon. Dark Star paved the way for Carpenter’s later film The Thing and proved an important testing ground for O’Bannon who went on to write Alien.
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