Prequel to 'The Thing'

[Asr]

The idea of a prequel is madness! The Thing was a perfect movie and we don't need a piece of crap ruining its greatness! Wtf is wrong with Hollywood?

 

[Octoberist]

honestly, i don't think this movie is going anywhere; just a theory of mine.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea seriously, how are they going to top characters like Mac and Childs? It's best just left alone.

 

[Octoberist]

and the director is already attached to Army of the Dead; I don't expect this movie to move forward in a while. Just like the Evil Dead remake, the Flash, Wonder Woman, and the countless of other movies in Development Hell.

 

[SurfDUI]

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.

I haven't even seen Assault on Precinct 13...I am ashamed. I have seen the one w/ Dre De Mateo...and even still was a waste of time.

Dude...I stand corrected forgot about Snake...and ain't no bigger lover of Kieth David and Roddy Pipper's alley fight than me...you are right about Christine.

Memoirs was more of a Chevy chase/CGI vehicle than Carpenter's direction, but yea that started the slide...

Can we agree that Vampires and the one about Mars/Ice Cube were nearly unwatchable...Still that's a damn good track record. I hope this happens.

 

[redhawk23]

terrible terrible terrible terrribleXinfinity idea

 

[ttotheusher]

I haven't even seen Assault on Precinct 13...I am ashamed. I have seen the one w/ Dre De Mateo...and even still was a waste of time.

Dude...I stand corrected forgot about Snake...and ain't no bigger lover of Kieth David and Roddy Pipper's alley fight than me...you are right about Christine.

Memoirs was more of a Chevy chase/CGI vehicle than Carpenter's direction, but yea that started the slide...

Can we agree that Vampires and the one about Mars/Ice Cube were nearly unwatchable...Still that's a damn good track record. I hope this happens.

AOP13 is easily in Carpenters 3 best, its truly a masterpiece of low budget filmmaking. Plus, there's a prototype Snake in there, who is just as badass. I must admit though, I do have a soft spot for Escape from LA. Its cheesy, but fun as anything.

 

[Nivek]

Escape from L.A has some redeeming qualities, but I will not deny that you can see John Carpenter has bocome more miss than hit nowadays. I still was always hoping he would helm a western (like say Jonah Hex).

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The only JC movies that I like are The Thing and Halloween and I don't even really like Halloween that much. I like watching They Live but it isn't a good movie and is the movie that should be remade.

What I'm getting at is, I think that JC isn't a very good director but he got lucky a few times.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

The only JC movies that I like are The Thing and Halloween and I don't even really like Halloween that much. I like watching They Live but it isn't a good movie and is the movie that should be remade.

What I'm getting at is, I think that JC isn't a very good director but he got lucky a few times.

Ghosts Of Mars was pretty good. Did you see that?

 

[Carnotaur3]

Carpenter's Vampires gets a bad wrap.

 

[dude stannis]

Escape from L.A has some redeeming qualities,

How about the fact that half of it came true?

 

[Dark Victory]

So I guess this will follow the Norwegians or maybe the alien life on the spaceship. Still a stupid idea since the point was to leave it open for interpretation. Though, I liked how the game was a sequel and the story wasn't that bad.

And this movie will probably never come out like The Odyssey, 30 Days of Night sequel, Evil Dead remake, etc...

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Ghosts Of Mars was pretty good. Did you see that?

I saw that in theaters. I didn't like it very much.

 

[smooth3006]

i just saw the thing again last night on sci-fi. a very good classic horror flick IMO. i don't see the need to make a prequel at all.

 

[wobbly]

A prequel seems utterly pointless to me. They way Carpenter handled the events at the Norwegian camp was ideal: we saw enough to set up the horror that was to come, and we don't need to see what happened now as it will mostly be a rehash of what happened in the original. And of course, we exactly know how it will end.

Now a sequel, however belated (and away from the antarctic), I would be interested in.

 

[dude stannis]

It's the occurances of about an hour before the film. We pretty much find out what happens when Mac and Blair investigate the Norweigian camp.

This movie is as necessary as me drinking my own urine.

 

[Rac]

Ghosts Of Mars was pretty good. Did you see that?

It had a good premise, but the editing and music ruined it, imo. I'd like to get my hands on the actual film material and re-cut the whole movie + add some blood'n'gore. It had a potential to be a very good 80's style scifi horror action, it just failed in the execution.

 

[ttotheusher]

Escape from L.A has some redeeming qualities, but I will not deny that you can see John Carpenter has bocome more miss than hit nowadays. I still was always hoping he would helm a western (like say Jonah Hex).

I think what Carpenter was best at was bringing the Western sensibility into the modern day.

 

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The Thing Prequel Starts Shooting in March

Source:ShockTillYouDrop.com
January 3, 2010



The prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing, which ShockTillYouDrop.com last reported on back in March (here) will start shooting in a few months in Toronto according to Production Weekly, who posted on their Twitter feed:

"Universal's prequel to John Carpenter's classic thriller "The Thing," is due to begin filming March and continue till June in Toronto."

Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. from a screenplay by "Battlestar Galactica" exec. producer Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer (The Nightmare on Elm Street remake), the prequel is supposed to be an earlier story about the mutation that attacks the Norwegian base from Carpenter's movie.

One can expect cast will be announced in the next few weeks.

 

[Octoberist]

I wonder what the title will be..

 

[Octoberist]

I wonder what the title will be..

 

[Halloween]

^

That Thing.

 

[dude stannis]

Stupid, stupid.

If it's a big hit, does that mean we get a prequel about The Thing sleeping in the ice?

 

[ttotheusher]

It does seem rather pointless, but I suppose the Execs. who greenlit it have other ideas...

Either way, it's not like it will tarnish the original, and they've already released the best possible version of the film on blu-ray, so no double dip for me either. Take that, Universal executives!