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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 - now considered central in the science fiction canon. Dark Star paved the way for Carpenter’s later film and proved an important testing ground for O’Bannon who went on to write .