The Thing

The third big-screen version of the 1938 science fiction novella, “Who Goes There?” is on its way. That film, “The Thing,” is set to detail the events of the three days before the previous film version, 1982′s “The Thing.”  Director John Carpenter’s cult classic of isolation and paranoia in an Antarctic research base stared Kurt Russel and Wilford Brimley, and was lauded for its grotesque but visually impressive special effects. There was also a 1951 film adaptation called “The Thing From Another World.”
The 2011 “Thing,” directed by Dutch filmmaker Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., has been in development for at least two years. Carpenter has said in the past that he originally intended to make a sequel based on the stories of two of his original movie’s characters. According to IMDB.com, the film’s producers decided to create a prequel, rather than a remake or sequel, filling in a plot gap from the first film.

In the 1982 original, a group of scientists at a research base in Antarctica self-destruct after a sled dog that escaped from a nearby Norwegian research base reveals itself to be a deadly, shape-shifting alien bent on world domination. The upcoming film tells the story of that Norwegian camp, showing how the scientists there thawed out the alien from a block of ice and revived it to wreck havoc on the bottom of the world.