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Rockne S. O'Bannon | |
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| Born | Los Angeles, United States |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, executive producer, director, writer |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Notable works | Farscape, Alien Nation, seaQuest DSV, Cult, Revolution, V |
| Notable awards | Saturn Award (9 total) |
Rockne S. O'Bannon is an American television writer, screenwriter and producer, working primarily in the science fiction genre. O'Bannon has created five original television series (Farscape, seaQuest DSV, Defiance, Cult, and Alien Nation).
O'Bannon made his writing debut selling spec material to NBC's Amazing Stories (1985) and CBS's The Twilight Zone (1985), but first garnered critical attention for his film Alien Nation (1988) and its subsequent spinoff television show. His next notable achievement was his original series seaQuest DSV (1993) which ran for three seasons. O'Bannon's most critically acclaimed success was the space epic Farscape on the Sci-Fi Channel (1999–2003) which ran for four seasons and spun off into a mini-series as well as a comic book series. Since Farscape, he has created the television show Defiance (2013) and The CW's Cult (2013), the miniseries The Triangle (2005), as well as an uncredited rewrite on the pilot for Warehouse 13 (2009). He has also served as Executive Producer and writer on Constantine, Revolution, V, and Evil (on CBS) among others.
O'Bannon has been credited with creating original series "that push the boundaries of speculative television in ways that put him in the rare company of writers like Rod Serling."[1] He has won multiple Saturn Awards (including best series for Farscape)[2] and been nominated for other awards such as a Hugo Award[3] and a WGA Award.[4]
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- ^ "31st Annual Saturn Awards – Press Room Pictures | Getty Images". Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "1989 Hugo Awards". July 26, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1988)". IMDb. Retrieved August 7, 2016.