Mark Hanna

Mark Hanna was an American film screenwriter born on January 1st, 1917. His first professional film work was the 1956 Western film Gunslinger, directed by Roger Corman. His first work in the sci-fi genre was the 1957 film Not of This Earth. He followed this up with The Amazing Colossal Man that same year and in 1958, he wrote the script for the similarly-themed Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. In 1988, director Jim Wynorski optioned the rights to do a remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, which would have featured exploitation star Sybil Danning, but the film never materialized and Wynorshi instead remade Not of This Earth. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was remade however in 1993, but Hanna was not involved in this project. His final film work was writing the screenplay for the 1999 film Star Portal.

Mark Hanna passed away in Lake Worth, Florida on October 16th, 2003 at the age of 86.