The Thing - The Prequel

[Elvis_Christ]

Yeh an Aliens styled Thing flick would fuckin' rule.

[scouse mac]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

But word is that they may be doing a straight remake now

I hope not

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

I'd prefer to see a sequel and treat it like ALIENS, not a knock-off of the original, but something that weaves a more action-packed story through the same world.

Theres certainly room for expansion similar to Aliens. A military rescue mission discover the frozen corpses of Childs and Macready, one of which is the Thing etc etc

hmmm....I'm gonna go for Prequel rather than a Remake or Sequel. I don't know, I just don't always trust Sequels or Remakes these days.....i.e. Micheal Bay

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by killermonkey

hmmm....I'm gonna go for Prequel rather than a Remake or Sequel. I don't know, I just don't always trust Sequels or Remakes these days.....i.e. Micheal Bay

Michael Bay makes prequels too Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

I prefer a sequel.

A sequel takes the story and moves it forward, which is fine in my book - as long as it actually does move the story forward and not just repeat the previos film(s) over and over (Saw series... I'm looking at you).

[milktoaste]

I was thinking about it, and I'd rather see 'them' take the story in whole new bizzar directions than to see a remake. Put the Thing in the jungle like in Preditor, or in the ocean like The Abyss. Then I suppose it wouldn't really be The Thing, and 'they' could name it something else.

Throw in a Terminator, Wolverine, Goku and Wonder Woman, maybe some boobs too. I'm sorry, I've had more than a few beers.

[scouse mac]

Originally Posted by milktoaste

I was thinking about it, and I'd rather see 'them' take the story in whole new bizzar directions than to see a remake. Put the Thing in the jungle like in Preditor, or in the ocean like The Abyss. Then I suppose it wouldn't really be The Thing, and 'they' could name it something else.

Throw in a Terminator, Wolverine, Goku and Wonder Woman, maybe some boobs too. I'm sorry, I've had more than a few beers.

This certainly wouldn't be a sequel to the Thing, but its a movie I would pay to see!:D

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Executive producer Ronald D. Moore recently chatted about his in-development remake/reboot of the John Carpenter classic The Thing.

First off, Moore notes that writing a feature for a studio (Universal in this case) is a very different beast than running a TV show.

"I did my drafts," he says. "They were happy. They have a director and, you know, it's the feature world and I'm not the key player so we just wait and see if they're going to greenlight it or not. I'm not the chef. I'm the short-order cook who comes in and does my thing and we'll see what they want to serve."

That director is Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who is also attached to helm the zombie project Army of the Dead for producer Zack Snyder (Watchmen).

Additionally, Moore points out that the new film will not be a sequel or a reboot to the Carpenter film but more of a contemporary, of a sort, of the 1982 flick.

"Well, it's not a remake," he says. "It's really a companion piece to the Carpenter version. We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did, so it's very buried in the continuity [and] it's supposed to be the other story that you saw part of. So we didn't want to reinvent it. It was really much the opposite. We really wanted to have this flow seamlessly into what he did."

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Eric Heisserer, who is in the process of rewriting Ronald D. Moore's draft of The Thing (and also rewrote the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street), the forthcoming prequel/reboot that's being helmed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr reveals in an interview who the main character could be, along with details on how they plan on referencing the original film in the new one.

Heisserer tells that he is still working on his draft of THE THING, which he says could go into production as early as January 2010.

“[I’m working on it] as we speak, that’s why I have my laptop here,” he tells on the set of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot back in July.

Some early rumors were that the prequel would follow the brother of R.J. MacReady, who was played by Kurt Russell in the first film.

“That was certainly a character in Ronald Moore’s draft,” he explains. “I can’t comment on whether or not were going to keep that going forward.”

One of the best parts about making a prequel is that a writer gets to really dissect the first film in order to construct a backstory.

“It’s a really fascinating way to construct a story because were doing it by autopsy, by examining very, very closely everything we know about the Norwegian camp and about the events that happened there from photos and video footage that’s recovered,” he continues, “from a visit to the base, the director, producer and I have gone through it countless times marking, you know, there’s a fire axe in the door, we have to account for that…were having to reverse engineer it, so those details all matter to us ‘cause it all has to make sense.”

“We explain how it got there,” he continues referring to the axe, adding that he found a way to bring suspense back to the film. “We’re finding so much from Carpenter’s movie that you think you’ve seen, but in actually it allows us to come up with certain twists on what we have that will allow people to be on the edge of their seat, and not know who’s going to make it and who’s not.”

In the screenplay by Ronald D. Moore that Eric is rewriting, the prequel takes place from the Norwegian camps point of view. An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realizes that an alien life form with the ability to take over bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

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After years and years of development and speculation, Universal Pictures' prequel to John Carpenter's classic thriller The Thing is due to begin filming March and continue till June in Toronto, reports Production Weekly.

Unless there have been top secret changes behind the curtain, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. will be directing from a screenplay by Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street).

Moore's script takes place from the Norwegian camps point of view. An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realize that an alien life-form with the ability to take over bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

No word on how much was changed by Heisserer.

[ferretchucker]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

After years and years of development and speculation, Universal Pictures' prequel to John Carpenter's classic thriller The Thing is due to begin filming March and continue till June in Toronto, reports Production Weekly.

Unless there have been top secret changes behind the curtain, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. will be directing from a screenplay by Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street).

Moore's script takes place from the Norwegian camps point of view. An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realize that an alien life-form with the ability to take over bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

No word on how much was changed by Heisserer.

Please tell me that that synopsis was a joke. That can't be right!