Disappointing news of the day folks. Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures have annouced that they are going ahead with a REMAKE and not a PREQUEL of the
John Carpenter classic
The Thing.
Battlestar Galactica writer
Ronald D. Moore is the man chosen to pen the script, after two months of searching for a writer which we reported here back in September. As much as this news sucks, we should of course remember that John Carpenter's superb version of The Thing was in itself a remake of the
Howard Hawks 1951 film
The Thing From Another World. So if Carpenter can make a remake which is even better than the original then why can't it be done again? Well simply because The Thing is like
The Godfather or
The Empire Strikes Back... you just don't remake those films. The producers are quoted as saying the film will be more of "a companion piece" to Carpenter's version rather than a shot by shot remake. Seriously guys don't bother, remaking The Thing is not going to work... just look how
The Fog remake turned out. source -
variety,
coming soon