Prequel to 'The Thing'

[ttotheusher]

Also, how are we supposed to root for someone who will let a grenade slip out of their hand killing their buddy in a helicoptor explosion?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

You're right. What a dick head.

 

[Nivek]

A Prequel? To John Carpenters The Thing? Might as well remake the damn movie itself after almost 30 years.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

No, no, no remake of this film!!! NEVAH!!!!!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Now, I'll concede that a remake or prequel won't hurt the quality of the orginal but I just don't see the point of remaking the movie unless you have a kickass director and amazing script.

They aren't going to do that though, they are going to get a low rent no no name T.V show director and probably screenwriter and put in tons of unconvincing CGI. Why on earth would anyone want to see a movie that has no chance what-so-ever of topping the orginal or even being remotely good.

This doesn't piss me off half as much as the Robocop Reboot but it still gets on my nerves.

 

[Octoberist]

i think the robocop reboot isn't going anywhere; there's some projects where you know nothing is happening.

Think about this: This new director dude was suppose to work on Zach Synder's Army of the Dead. Either he's going to do that first, or he'll do this, or nothing will happen.

Look at David Fincher and what he's going to do next: he has like 6 projects that he's working on and nothing's happening.

 

[Doctor Jones]

This will be pointless. Prequel AKA Remake.

But I still have to see Carpenter's film.

 

[Evil Twin]

I'm not automatically opposed to remakes. Both versions of The Thing deviate from the source material in some significant ways and you can be even more or less faithful to the original story. There are several effective versions of Frankenstein and Dracula for instance, and nobody seems particularly put out by the remake of The Wolf Man.

But, doing a tie-in prequel, seems the lazy way out. We know how it ends, MacReady's brother makes no sense, and you just know that they're going to hit us with a load of CGI instead of the memorable practical effects of Carpenter's version. Or the overlapping dialogue and great fire effect of the 50s version.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea seriously, just leave this film alone. It is one of my favourite movies ever, they won't be able to improve it. Hell, even if Carpenter himself returns to direct a remake or prequel I doubt it would be as good.

 

[ttotheusher]

Yea seriously, just leave this film alone. It is one of my favourite movies ever, they won't be able to improve it. Hell, even if Carpenter himself returns to direct a remake or prequel I doubt it would be as good.

I hate to hate on Carpenter but, lets face it, his track record slipped.

 

[black_dust]

SPOILERS!!!

IT WILL END WITH THE DOG RUNNING OFF!!!



Sorry to spoil it guys

 

[WeaponXProject]

They should leave it alone, the best part of The Thing is that you don't know where it came from or what it really is. They should keep it mysterious.

"People always fear what they don't understand"

-Carmine Falcone.

Bingo.

Another element of it is trust and the man vs. man aspect.


And tthotheusher is right.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Indeed. They make these prequels now because they're out of ideas for a sequel. "Okay, let's do a prequel! It worked for Batman Begins!"

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Immediatly upon hearing this, I thought it was a bad idea, now hearing that MacCready's brother was in the camp, I am astonished, thats THE worst idea they could have gone with, wouldnt he have searched for the body in the first movie, or at least shown a bit of concern? Stupid.

 

[Nivek]

Indeed. They make these prequels now because they're out of ideas for a sequel. "Okay, let's do a prequel! It worked for Batman Begins!"

You mean reboot, not prequel, right? BB is classified as a reboot, only know nothing will call it a prequel, since that by definition requires it to be in continuity.

 

[WeaponXProject]

Indeed. They make these prequels now because they're out of ideas for a sequel. "Okay, let's do a prequel! It worked for Batman Begins!"

I think prequels can work for characters that we know to a certain extent. Like Wolverine (well we'll have to wait and see), Batman, Sherlocke Holmes, James Bond...but when we learn why a villain does what he does and the whole point of the character is how mysterious they are then that just bombs it.

The point is some of these characters people want to know about. Alot of what we hear about a prequel to this (a la Hannibal Rising, Magneto, etc.) aren't really asked for so why do it?

 

[Octoberist]

I think prequels can work if it's not horror.

The Thing, while sci-fi, was pretty much a horror movie. I remember when I saw the awful Texas Chainsaw Mass: The Beginning. By the end of the movie, I was like "man, there's no surprises at all. You know that Leatherface and his family survives, and you know that the kids won't. So there's no tension or any sense of real danger.

 

[ttotheusher]

I think prequels can work if it's not horror.

The Thing, while sci-fi, was pretty much a horror movie. I remember when I saw the awful Texas Chainsaw Mass: The Beginning. By the end of the movie, I was like "man, there's no surprises at all. You know that Leatherface and his family survives, and you know that the kids won't. So there's no tension or any sense of real danger.

See, unless prequls dont have any bearing on the film before (or is that after?) it, I cant think of many prequels that work well in general.

 

[WeaponXProject]

You mean reboot, not prequel, right? BB is classified as a reboot, only know nothing will call it a prequel, since that by definition requires it to be in continuity.

I don't understand that does that mean the same thing even if the character's new take is similiar and or the same as the old one? I mean we all know the character and a director is certainly gonna have a different take on the character with the same elements the character has had or always had. So Star Wars were prequels cause it was George's universe even though they felt so different than the old ones? Wolverine's is a prequel because it is the same line of the other X movies right? I don't know the usuage of the words prequel and reboot are confusing to me.

 

[Eggyman]

I don't understand that does that mean the same thing even if the character's new take is similiar and or the same as the old one? I mean we all know the character and a director is certainly gonna have a different take on the character with the same elements the character has had or always had. So Star Wars were prequels cause it was George's universe even though they felt so different than the old ones? Wolverine's is a prequel because it is the same line of the other X movies right? I don't know the usuage of the words prequel and reboot are confusing to me.

It can't be a prequel to the old films because it completely breaks the continuity. If BB was a prequel to the Burton films, then you wouldn't be able to have Joker in TDK because we saw his full arc in Burton's '89.

If it's its own being, separate from what came before, with new continuity within its own fresh universe, it's a reboot not prequel.

 

[SurfDUI]

Yea seriously, just leave this film alone. It is one of my favourite movies ever, they won't be able to improve it. Hell, even if Carpenter himself returns to direct a remake or prequel I doubt it would be as good.

One of my top 5 EVER-
Surley we can give the man the benefit of the doubt...maybe, I mean the 3 movie streak he was on during that time is undeard of straight Classics.

He has slipped tho,

 

[ttotheusher]

One of my top 5 EVER-
Surley we can give the man the benefit of the doubt...maybe, I mean the 3 movie streak he was on during that time is undeard of straight Classics.

He has slipped tho,

3-Movie? Try 5.

Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween
The Fog
Escape from New York
The Thing

After that we had Christine and Starman, by no means his finest work but certainly very respectable, and after that came Big Trouble, Prince of Darkness and They Live (Cant vouch for the latter two, but Big Trouble rocks my socks off!) It was by Memoirs of an Invisible Man that he started to slip. Sorry for the rant, I'm a huge fan.

 

[WeaponXProject]

It can't be a prequel to the old films because it completely breaks the continuity. If BB was a prequel to the Burton films, then you wouldn't be able to have Joker in TDK because we saw his full arc in Burton's '89.

If it's its own being, separate from what came before, with new continuity within its own fresh universe, it's a reboot not prequel.

Which movie can't be a prequel? Batman, I get that. I wish I had other examples....

 

[Eggyman]

Which movie can't be a prequel? Batman, I get that. I wish I had other examples....

Well, errr, Fantastic Four, for instance. That can't be a prequel to the earlier film because they were both about the origin... not a very good example, but a simple one. Reboots are re-imaginings of films that have come before, whereas a prequel works towards the continuity that the films already made have set.

I'm trying to think of other examples See how good I am to you?!

 

[WeaponXProject]

t:

I get it now.