Yog
Jan 5th, 2010, 12:37:23 PM
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Nope, this is not a horrible remake or a sequel. Instead, it's going to tell the story of events leading up to that movie, which should be an interesting tale to say the least. And it's written by the creator of Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore. I'm giddy as a schoolboy about this news, and pray naively that the movie is not going to suck, as The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) is my all time favorite horror movie and Ronald D. Moore knows what he is doing.
First off, Moore notes that writing a feature for a studio (Universal in this case) is a very different beast than running a TV show.
"I did my drafts," he says. "They were happy. They have a director and, you know, it's the feature world and I'm not the key player so we just wait and see if they're going to greenlight it or not. I'm not the chef. I'm the short-order cook who comes in and does my thing and we'll see what they want to serve."
That director is Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who is also attached to helm the zombie project Army of the Dead for producer Zack Snyder (Watchmen). Additionally, Moore points out that the new film will not be a sequel or a reboot to the Carpenter film but more of a contemporary, of a sort, of the 1982 flick.
"Well, it's not a remake," he says. "It's really a companion piece to the Carpenter version. We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did, so it's very buried in the continuity [and] it's supposed to be the other story that you saw part of. So we didn't want to reinvent it. It was really much the opposite. We really wanted to have this flow seamlessly into what he did."
So basically, they are going to tell the story before all this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuHX1yVtdc) happened.
The shooting starts in the month of March:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26609
It's been in the works for some time, but The Thing prequel finally has a start-of-shooting date, with production due to begin in Toronto in March and finish in June. Set on the Norweigan Antarctic base glimpsed in John Carpenter's original film, this will see a bunch of Scandinavians having a really bad day thanks to a flesh-eating alien mimic.
No cast's been announced so far, but we do know that the director's Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who's also been attached to Army of the Dead, the Las Vegas-set zombie movie. Presumably, however, this prequel has now overtaken that film (based on a Zack Snyder idea) on his To Do list. The script was written by Eric Heisserer, of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, and Ronald D. Moore of TV's mighty Battlestar Galactica - so expect this to pull no punches.
At the very least, this news has got to put today's cold weather in a better light. It may be freezing outside, but at least that keeps the aliens at bay, right?
Nope, this is not a horrible remake or a sequel. Instead, it's going to tell the story of events leading up to that movie, which should be an interesting tale to say the least. And it's written by the creator of Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore. I'm giddy as a schoolboy about this news, and pray naively that the movie is not going to suck, as The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) is my all time favorite horror movie and Ronald D. Moore knows what he is doing.
First off, Moore notes that writing a feature for a studio (Universal in this case) is a very different beast than running a TV show.
"I did my drafts," he says. "They were happy. They have a director and, you know, it's the feature world and I'm not the key player so we just wait and see if they're going to greenlight it or not. I'm not the chef. I'm the short-order cook who comes in and does my thing and we'll see what they want to serve."
That director is Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who is also attached to helm the zombie project Army of the Dead for producer Zack Snyder (Watchmen). Additionally, Moore points out that the new film will not be a sequel or a reboot to the Carpenter film but more of a contemporary, of a sort, of the 1982 flick.
"Well, it's not a remake," he says. "It's really a companion piece to the Carpenter version. We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did, so it's very buried in the continuity [and] it's supposed to be the other story that you saw part of. So we didn't want to reinvent it. It was really much the opposite. We really wanted to have this flow seamlessly into what he did."
So basically, they are going to tell the story before all this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuHX1yVtdc) happened.
The shooting starts in the month of March:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26609
It's been in the works for some time, but The Thing prequel finally has a start-of-shooting date, with production due to begin in Toronto in March and finish in June. Set on the Norweigan Antarctic base glimpsed in John Carpenter's original film, this will see a bunch of Scandinavians having a really bad day thanks to a flesh-eating alien mimic.
No cast's been announced so far, but we do know that the director's Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who's also been attached to Army of the Dead, the Las Vegas-set zombie movie. Presumably, however, this prequel has now overtaken that film (based on a Zack Snyder idea) on his To Do list. The script was written by Eric Heisserer, of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, and Ronald D. Moore of TV's mighty Battlestar Galactica - so expect this to pull no punches.
At the very least, this news has got to put today's cold weather in a better light. It may be freezing outside, but at least that keeps the aliens at bay, right?