On the surface, Dark Star and Alien have little in common. One is a satire featuring a philosophical discussion with a talking bomb, and the other is a horror movie with a creature that bursts out of people’s chests. Dig a little deeper, though, and it’s not hard to see how O’Bannon’s work on one led him to write the other.
Alien is often described as a movie about truckers in space. Where Star Wars is about a chosen one accepting their destiny and saving the galaxy, Alien is about Joe and Jane Schmoe just trying to earn a paycheck. And Alien can trace that working-man aesthetic right back to Dark Star.
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