Why is Alan Dean Foster's name on the UK quad poster for the film Dark Star?

August 20, 2011 11:04 AM

Does anyone know why author Alan Dean Foster's name is on the UK quad poster for the film Dark Star? Foster wrote the subsequent novelisation. Were they trying to imply it was an adaptation?

I'm asking because the film is coming to blu-ray and I've just emailed the distributor suggesting it was a mistake, and they were using the novelisation art, but they just got back to me and pointed out that it's the quad.

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/dark-star.html

Not to mention that it also implies Foster wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Poseidon Adventure!

posted by feelinglistless to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

I am just speculating here, but I bet whoever made the poster was confused about which came first.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 12:12 PM on August 20, 2011

I think Chocolate Pickle must be right. Dark Star was definitely a Dan O'Bannon joint--he wrote it, edited it, starred in it, and has visual effects and production design credit for it. Looks like quite an error.

I'm unclear on what the distributor was saying with that reply. That it must be correct because it's a poster? I used to have an early-run Usual Suspects poster with 3 typos on it.
posted by heatvision at 7:09 AM on August 21, 2011 [1 favorite]