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Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's SF horror movie The Thing, with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore writing the script, Variety reported. The 1982 original dealt with a shapeshifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic station. That film in turn was a remake of the 1951 classic SF movie The Thing From Another World, which was adapted from the 1938 short story "Who Goes There?" by legendary SF author John W. Campbell Jr.
Strike partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce, and the company will co-finance the remake, to which Universal owned the rights. David Foster, who produced the 1982 film, will executive-produce.
The producers said they consider the new film to be more "a companion piece" to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.
Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM. |
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=38953
The John Carpenter version is so excellent it is hard to believe anyone could do any better. This is up there with Invasion of the Body Snatchers in classic horror sci-fi.
Another thread could be what is horror and what is sci-fi as so many films now a days seem to combine both. Frankenstein was either Gothic Horror or science fiction. Easy to know Saw is horror and slasher movies but not so much with Zombie movies as if the source of the outbreak is manmade as in 28 Days Later is that then sci-fiction?
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