Ronald Shusett

Ronald Shusett is an American motion picture screenwriter and producer, usually in the science fiction genre.

He wrote the original story for Alien (1979) with Dan O'Bannon.

In 1974, he was the first to option the Philip K. Dick short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", that became the basis of the film Total Recall.^[1]

Shusett is sometimes incorrectly credited as Thilo T. Newman.

Filmography

• 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
• Above the Law (1988) – screenwriter
• Total Recall (1990) – screenwriter / producer
• Freejack (1992) – screenwriter / producer
• Bleeders (1997) – screenwriter
• Minority Report (2002) – executive producer
• Alien vs. Predator (2004) – screen story
• The Medusa Hour (2008) – executive producer
• Death Warrior (2008) – producer
• Deadly Exchange (2009) – screenwriter
• Hunt of the Sea Wolves (2009) – executive producer

References

External links

• Ronald Shusett at the Internet Movie Database