The Thing
Summary
As part ofSan Diego Comic - Con , manufacturer Roy Lee details the TV show sequel toThe Thingthat never saw the sparkle of 24-hour interval . Theinfluential 1982 sci - fi horror moviefrom director John Carpenter , which has influenced filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and Quentin Tarantino , is considered among the best of its genre . It has breed amusing book adaptations , video games , and a 2011 remake . But there was one project , a design miniseries , that never perplex off the flat coat .
Speaking atCollider ’s Producers on make panel during SDCC 2024 , Lee opened up about why a television adaptation ofThe Thingnever move forrad . Lee , a manufacturer onThe BarbarianandLate Night with the Devil , explained that he want to influence with Oscar - nominatedShawshank Redemptionwriter andWalking Deadshow creator Frank Darabont on the project . The duet even had an idea for it , which is share in the quote below , butnetwork heads were not impressed :
“ I was with Frank Darabont after he ’d done The Walking Dead . We were working on a sequel serial publication for The Thing , which was pick up in the present mean solar day after the events of The Thing actually happened . It was done as a serial , and he wanted to do it like The walk Dead and turn it into a thing fix in the U.S. , but we never got it off the background . We got a script indite , but the studio apartment hat it . ”
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Lee does n’t elaborate to a great extent on what the plot forThe Thingtelevision adaption would have been . But there had been plans for a four - part miniseries , which would have been produced by Darabont and compose by fellowWalking Deadscribe David Leslie Johnson - McGoldrick . The story would have followed a Russian team who recuperate the corps of MacReady and Childs , played by Kurt Russell and Keith David in the 1982 film , in add-on to remnants of the Thing . The news report would have impress forward 23 years and focused on the Thing ’s escape and subsequent attempts at contain the giant .
There have been other attempts to keepThe Thingalive , such as reports of Blumhouse working on a follow - up . Carpenter ’s sci - fi horror was based on the 1938 novellaWho Goes There?by author John W. Campbell , Jr. , and the remaking would have leaned on an extended interlingual rendition of the story by Campbell as its fundament . The Blumhouse labor has yet to foretell a cast of characters or a film director , though Carpenter has said he ’s involved .
Campbell ’s extended novel version , which was found in an former ms , was publish in 2019 under the titleFrozen Hell : The Book That Inspired The affair .
It ’s no easy task to zero in on what made the original standpoint out to audiences and influence future Oscar winners despite largely disconfirming initial reviews . Whether it ’s Kurt Russell ’s magnetized performance asThe Thingcast ’s leador the fact that Carpenter tap into something empyrean in an otherwise wild premise , even internet execs have at time gibe that it ’s a difficult film to replicate — though they ’ve try .
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A team of researchers set out to analyze an alien spacecraft found in Antarctica , where they also get wind an alien torso on the site . The alien buried in chicken feed is actually alive and has the ability to imitate human form . The group must receive a way to identify who the material person is from The Thing and stay alive . John Carpenter ’s 1982 picture show is a remake of 1951 ’s The affair from Another World and stars Kurt Russel as the hero RJ MacReady .
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