Latino Review snatched up filmmaker Marc Abraham, who funded such flicks as the Dawn of the Dead remake, Air Force One, The Hurricane and Slither, who talked about the foreseeable remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece, The Thing.
In the interview, Abraham says the remake will be a prequel to Carpenter’s film. “It’s going to be taking place in the same time frame,” he states.
Translation? The new installment is going to end where Carpenter’s picks up, which could actually give better insight and understanding to the cult hit horror fans know and love.
Carpenter’s The Thing, a remake of 1951’s The Thing from Another World, centers around a team of American scientists living in Antarctica who discover a mysterious Norwegian helicopter. After they see the helicopter endangering the life of an innocent dog, the Americans shoot it down, killing the people inside. Helicopter pilot J.R MacReady (Kurt Russell) volunteers to visit the Norwegian base to find out the reason behind the strange action, but on arrival quickly realizes danger is near. He brings back a corpse of what seems to be a human for the researchers to perform tests on when the corpse and the dog morph into a sub-creature that in turn kills the doctors. The base’s head doctor has come to a conclusion: the alien has the power to transform and take the appearance of anybody else around them. J.R MacReady then makes it his mission to find out whose infected and who can be trusted.
By Tessa Petrocco (Source: Latino Review)
The Thing kicked ass, hope they don’t screw it up with a remake.
I’m sure that they will screw it up, remakes almost always suck!
It’s not as much of a remake as it is a prequel, showing how the Norwegians dealt with the menace after uncovering it in the ice. This prequel proposes to end where Carpenter’s movie begins.