Rockne S. O'Bannon

Rockne S. O'Bannon
O'Bannon at the 2013 Comic-Con
Born	Los Angeles, United States
Occupation	Screenwriter, executive producer, director, writer
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works	Farscape, Alien Nation, seaQuest DSV Revolution, V
Notable awards	Saturn Award

Rockne S. O'Bannon is an American television writer, screenwriter and producer. O'Bannon has created five original television series (Farscape, seaQuest, Defiance, Cult, and Alien Nation).

O'Bannon made his writing debut selling spec material to NBC's Amazing Stories (1985) and CBS's The Twilight Zone (1985), but first garnered critical attention for his film Alien Nation (1988) and its subsequent spinoff television show. His next notable achievement was his original series seaQuest DSV (1993) which ran for three seasons. O'Bannon's most critically acclaimed success was the space epic Farscape on Syfy (1999–2003) which ran for four seasons and spun off into a mini-series, a comic book series, and a rumored film. Since Farscape, he's created the hit TV show Defiance (2013) and CW's Cult (2013), the miniseries The Triangle (2005), along with helping to write the Warehouse 13 (2009) pilot. He's also written and produced for Constantine, Revolution and V among others.

O'Bannon prides himself on "delivering shows that truly are, in their own way, really unique" and pushing the boundaries of the science fiction genre. He's won multiple Saturn Awards (including best series for Farscape) and been nominated for other awards such as a Hugo Award and a WGA Award.

O'Bannon was brought onto ABC's reboot of V as a consulting producer and writer in late 2010 thorough early 2011. He worked in the writer's room for the second season but V wasn't renewed for a third, partially because of the show's high cost. Early in 2011, Syfy bought O'Bannon's pilot script for Defiance, and it went into production in June 2011. Part of Defiance's concept was combining a TV show with a massively multiplayer online developed by Trion Worlds Online. Beyond being the creator of the series, O'Bannon was originally slated to be the show-runner and executive producer. He stayed with the production for nearly 9 months, until it was announced the CW had placed a pilot order to make Cult in January 2012 nearly seven years after the network's predecessor had bought it. With both of his projects slated to go on the air, O'Bannon chose to follow his longtime passion project.