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.

Filmography

• Alien: Earth — Other
• 2024Alien: Romulus — Characters
• 2019Alien: Alone — Characters
• 2019Alien: Containment — Characters
• 2019Alien: Harvest — Characters
• Alien: Isolation - The Digital Series — Characters
• 2019Alien: Night Shift — Characters
• 2019Alien: Ore — Characters
• 2019Alien: Specimen — Characters
• 2017Alien: Covenant — Characters
• 2012Prometheus — Characters
• 2012Total Recall — Screenstory
• 2007Aliens vs Predator: Requiem — Characters
• 2004AVP: Alien vs. Predator — Screenstory, Characters
• 2002Minority Report — Executive Producer
• 1997Alien Resurrection — Characters
• 1997Bleeders — Writer
• 1992Alien³ — Characters
• 1992Freejack — Producer, Screenplay, Screenstory
• 1990Total Recall — Producer, Screenplay, Screenstory
• 1988Above the Law — Screenplay
• 1986Aliens — Characters
• 1986King Kong Lives — Story, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 1983The Final Terror — Screenplay
• 1981Dead & Buried — Screenplay, Producer
• 1980Phobia — Story
• 1979Alien — Executive Producer, Story
• 1974W — Story
• Untitled Alien: Romulus Sequel — Characters

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2019Memory: The Origins of Alien — Self
• 2009Tales from the Script — Self
• 2003The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self
• 2002The Alien Saga — Self
• 2001Imagining 'Total Recall' — Self
• 1999The Alien Legacy — Self
• Biography — Self