Ronald Shusett

Ronald Shusett

1935-06-01 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 33 Credits

Biography

Ronald Shusett (born June 1935) is an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for his works in the science fiction genre. He wrote the original story for Alien (1979) with Dan O'Bannon and later Alien vs. Predator (2004). 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.

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Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus

2024

Characters

7.2

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in ...

Alien: Specimen

Alien: Specimen

2019

Characters

6.1

During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

Alien: Ore

Alien: Ore

2019

Characters

6.2

When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony is forced to choose...

Alien: Night Shift

Alien: Night Shift

2019

Characters

6.1

When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluct...

Alien: Harvest

Alien: Harvest

2019

Characters

6.5

The surviving crew of a damaged space harvester has a motion sensor as their only navigation tool leading them to safety, while a creature in the shad...

Alien: Alone

Alien: Alone

2019

Characters

6.3

An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it ...

Alien: Containment

Alien: Containment

2019

Characters

6.1

Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Memory: The Origins of Alien

2019

as Self

6.3
Acting

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the ...

Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant

2017

Characters

6.2

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but ...

Total Recall

Total Recall

2012

Screenstory

6.0
Writing

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure...

Prometheus

Prometheus

2012

Characters

6.6

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they ...

Tales from the Script

Tales from the Script

2009

as Self

6.5
Acting

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul...

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

2007

Characters

5.2

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Pr...

AVP: Alien vs. Predator

AVP: Alien vs. Predator

2004

Screenstory, Characters

5.9
Writing

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...

The Beast Within: Making Alien

The Beast Within: Making Alien

2003

as Self

8.2
Acting

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them on...

The Alien Saga

The Alien Saga

2002

as Self

6.6
Acting

In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. T...

Minority Report

Minority Report

2002

Executive Producer

7.3
Producing

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

Imagining 'Total Recall'

Imagining 'Total Recall'

2001

as Self

7.0
Acting

Making of documentary featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven.

The Alien Legacy

The Alien Legacy

1999

as Self

6.9
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the making of 'Alien'

Alien Resurrection

Alien Resurrection

1997

Characters

6.2

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

Bleeders

Bleeders

1997

Writer

4.4
Writing

A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although ...

Alien³

Alien³

1992

Characters

6.4

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...

Freejack

Freejack

1992

Producer, Screenplay, Screenstory

5.4
Producing Writing

Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a...

Total Recall

Total Recall

1990

Producer, Screenplay, Screenstory

7.3
Producing Writing

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory im...

Above the Law

Above the Law

1988

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his jo...

King Kong Lives

King Kong Lives

1986

Story, Screenplay, Executive Producer

5.1
Writing Producing

After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g...

Aliens

Aliens

1986

Characters

8.0

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for...

The Final Terror

The Final Terror

1983

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf...

Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried

1981

Screenplay, Producer

6.4
Writing Producing

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living norm...

Phobia

Phobia

1980

Story

4.4
Writing

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Alien

Alien

1979

Executive Producer, Story

8.2
Producing Writing

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew...

W

W

1974

Story

5.7
Writing

Is a young woman being stalked by her ex, or is she imagining things?

Untitled Alien: Romulus Sequel

N/A

Characters

In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, Rain and her android companion Andy venture into unknown regions while facing deadly threats and uncovering sin...