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I don't know what to think about this announcement today on Bloody Disgusting, from "Variety".
Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's frightener "The Thing."
Script will be written by "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ronald D. Moore. The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility, according to Variety.
Strike partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce and the company will co-finance the remake, to which Universal owned the rights. David Foster, who produced the original film, will exec produce.
Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed "The Thing From Another World." That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.
Carpenter's film opened with a team arriving to find that encampment has been wiped out. The alien moved from the body of one team member to another, so it was never quite clear who the villain was.
Both pictures were based on the John W. Campbell Jr. 1938 short story "Who Goes There?"
The producers said they consider the new film to be more "a companion piece" to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.
Carpenter recently saw remakes done of his films "The Fog" and "Assault on Precinct 13," and Dimension Films has Rob Zombie reviving the Carpenter classic "Halloween" in what Zombie calls a cross between a remake and a prequel.
Strike's last redo foray was "Dawn of the Dead."
Moore, who's repped by CAA, just scripted an "I, Robot" sequel for Fox.
John Carpenter's the Thing is my favorite movie of all time. I don't really think it needs a re-make. Yet calling it a "companion piece" almost makes it sound like a "loose sequel", so who knows? If the threat starts fresh at a different location with different characters, I would be more happy.
Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's frightener "The Thing."
Script will be written by "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ronald D. Moore. The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility, according to Variety.
Strike partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce and the company will co-finance the remake, to which Universal owned the rights. David Foster, who produced the original film, will exec produce.
Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed "The Thing From Another World." That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.
Carpenter's film opened with a team arriving to find that encampment has been wiped out. The alien moved from the body of one team member to another, so it was never quite clear who the villain was.
Both pictures were based on the John W. Campbell Jr. 1938 short story "Who Goes There?"
The producers said they consider the new film to be more "a companion piece" to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.
Carpenter recently saw remakes done of his films "The Fog" and "Assault on Precinct 13," and Dimension Films has Rob Zombie reviving the Carpenter classic "Halloween" in what Zombie calls a cross between a remake and a prequel.
Strike's last redo foray was "Dawn of the Dead."
Moore, who's repped by CAA, just scripted an "I, Robot" sequel for Fox.
John Carpenter's the Thing is my favorite movie of all time. I don't really think it needs a re-make. Yet calling it a "companion piece" almost makes it sound like a "loose sequel", so who knows? If the threat starts fresh at a different location with different characters, I would be more happy.
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