I think this is a franchise that could do with a reboot.
It seems to me that the studios took a film, and characters, that could have had a grand, awe inspiring, nestalgic, and epic space adventure feel,
and made it into a TRL movie.
I think they could redo it with diferent, better fitting actors, better plot, and better everything. It was like Daredevil, too many bad things bringing the film down.
As entertaining as it was.
One thing I would do, and I can't beliave they don't do this more,
is have the Thing be a comination of live action, CG, and trick photography.
They can use the same techniques that LOTR did on their characters. Make Thing look bigger than the others, use CG to make his ruber suit look better.
Anyway, this franchise should someday be redone. But I don't think they will anytime soon.