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Dark Star was Carpenter's student film at UCLA. Later an investor put some money up and they padded it out with a few more scenes and released it into the theaters. This is before Carpenter's big hit with The Fog. The actor fighting the beach ball alien is Dan O'Bannon. Upset that people weren't laughing enough in the test screening, he decided to scare the shit out of them instead. So he started writing Alien. He then met Geiger working on Jodorowsky's Dune.