ROTTEN TOMATOES: Get Ready For an All-New "Thing"

Get Ready For an All-New "Thing"

by Scott Weinberg | November 20, 2006

If you're like me, then you really have LOVE John Carpenter's "The Thing," which means you might be annoyed to learn that a new remake is officially underway. But you shouldn't be annoyed, and here's why: The "Thing" we all love so much ... is a remake in its own right.

From Variety: "Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's frightener "The Thing." Script will be written by "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ronald D. Moore. The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.

Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed "The Thing From Another World." That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station."

Click here for the full story.

Related Items

Celeb:	John Carpenter
	Howard Hawks
	Ronald D. Moore
Movie:	The Thing
	Battlestar Galactica - Season 1

(1-20 of 21 posts) | Reply

privatepilesleftnipple writes:
on Nov 20 2006 06:05 AM

I read this article, now im on the verge of tears.

(Reply to this)

the-russian writes:
on Nov 20 2006 06:18 AM

[b]hey, a remake...[/b]

(Reply to this)

supermanofsteel writes:
on Nov 20 2006 06:36 AM

[b]PLEASE NO CGI!!!![/b]
That's what made the 1982 version so classic!

(Reply to this)

photosuperstar writes:
on Nov 20 2006 08:55 AM

Jesus, stop the madness already!

(Reply to this)

adamtstop writes:
on Nov 20 2006 09:18 AM

damit nipple...ur ruining rt news man. cut that shit out.

(Reply to this)

SuperScarface writes:
on Nov 20 2006 09:35 AM

Not judging until I see the trailer or who is directing... Only because I like Battlestar Gallactica and I have faith in the writers.

(Reply to this)

RocketPunch writes:
on Nov 20 2006 12:16 PM

The orginal 1982 movie actually inspired a lot of the Japanese animation and gave ideas to many video games series. I think the...um thing is still one of the best SciFi film of all time. Lets hope the remake wouldn't destroy all the rep of the original movie.

(Reply to this)

chazbow writes:
on Nov 20 2006 12:25 PM

[b]Good grief[/b]
A remake of Walter Hill's "The Warriors" and now a remake of one of the all-time great remakes, John Carpenter's "The Thing." Can modern-day Hollywood get anymore messed up?

The nerve-racking tension, great performances and Rob Bottin's grisly makeup effects is what made Carpenter's "The Thing" one of the best films of the 1980s. Using a lot of CGI and a bunch of good-looking young actors sure ain't gonna make the new one any better.

(Reply to this)

Reeven writes:
on Nov 20 2006 01:16 PM

I love this movie, and I've been aware it's a remake from day one, but it does something all new with the material. Unless we get a really amazing director, this will be nothing but a dissapointment.

(Reply to this)

spawnwest writes:
on Nov 20 2006 01:30 PM

why can't writers be creative any more and create there own stories....
please do not remake the classic film.....
i can see them continuing the story...but please no remake....
photosuperstar i agree "stop the madness already"

(Reply to this)

metalgear21 writes:
on Nov 20 2006 01:38 PM

I should cut and paste this article, add a few animated middle fingers and call it a remake!

(Reply to this)

yodas gooch writes:
on Nov 20 2006 05:26 PM

why...why...WHYYYYYYYYY???? Hopefully it will turn out as awesome as The Fog remake (LMFAO). I used to love him, but now I think John Carpenter sucks major ass

(Reply to this)

obsolete8210 writes:
on Nov 20 2006 07:31 PM

[b]LAME![/b]
A remake of a remake? This will not do John Carpenter's classic any justice! CGI galore!

(Reply to this)

GreenBastard writes:
on Nov 20 2006 08:11 PM

I don't know why they would bother, the last thing hasn't aged at all it's still awsome even by todays standards.
Kurt Russel was great they will have to find a good lead.
NO CGI though!!!!!!!!!!

(Reply to this)

Captain Future1 writes:
on Nov 20 2006 09:45 PM

well this is gunna suck why remake this>

(Reply to this)

Fangmeier69 writes:
on Nov 21 2006 08:28 AM

No matter what Ronald Moore has accomplished on TV with Battlestar Galactica, he, along with Brannon Braga, were the guys who eventually ran the Star Trek films into the ground, with Insurrection and Nemesis.
For all those hoping there will be no CGI - of course there will be. And too much, probably. And probably a cast of young up-and-comers, probably some females too.
All I have to hear is Michael Bay is producing, and the kiss of death will be final.

(Reply to this)

killermonkey8822 writes:
on Nov 22 2006 05:21 PM

In reply to this comment (#849233)
hey, if you people don't shut up by writing the same things on every single journal entry because you think it's really funny but it's really retarded and immature then i will cover your journal with comments that say "wow what a great journal" or something better i don't know but your journal will be covered up with really annoying stuff if you don't shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............anyway i hope this is one of the better remakes like dawn of the dead

(Reply to this)

wcmartell writes:
on Nov 22 2006 08:21 PM

[b]Of course it's a remake![/b]
Scott, do you think we're RETARDS? Everyone knows it's a remake. It was produced by *Howard Hawks*!

It's also based on a story... and the Carpenter version is faithful to that story (the original film didn't have the FX budget - nor were bladder FX invented back then - RB created them... I think for HOWLING.)

So the real Q is: will this version be faithful to the Cambell story, or not?

- Bill

(Reply to this)

inte writes:
on Nov 24 2006 07:04 AM

Carpenter's film was more of a faithful telling of the story than the '50s movie. It wasn't a remake, or a continuation from where the first film left off, as was suggested. But it wouldn't be hard to be more faithful to the story than either film, although it won't happen.

(Reply to this)

arcadefire325 writes:
on Nov 26 2006 03:05 PM

[b]this movie[/b]
hey, a remake of a remake!!! 5 years from now, they will make a remake of a remake of a remake. then the cycle will be complete!

(Reply to this)

RottenTomatoes.com