1990s
In 1990, O'Bannon and Shusett reteamed to make Total Recall, an adaptation of the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick. This was a project the two had been working on since collaborating on Alien. The film earned well over US$100 million. An earlier screenplay by the duo titled Hemoglobin was also produced as the low budget feature Bleeders (1997).
O'Bannon's second directorial feature, The Resurrected (1992), was a low-budget horror effort released direct-to-video. Based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, it focused on a family's ancient rituals that awaken the dead. In 1995, O'Bannon received a co-writing credit for the film Screamers, a science-fiction film about post-apocalyptic robots programmed to kill. Adapted from the Philip K. Dick story "Second Variety", O'Bannon first worked on the screenplay in the early 1980s.
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