The long-in-the-making prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing has a new director and will be written by Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D Moore.
Dutch commercials director Matthijs van Heijningen, who has recently completed shooting Army of the Dead will take the reins of the new project which will explore the alien creaure's attack in the Norwegian camp which was briefly glimpsed in Carpenter's 1982 feature.
I consider the Carpenter movie to be one of the greatest movies ever made, so I'm a little apprehensive about any movies exploring that world. But with the guy behind the new Battlestar reboot, I believe it could work. Time will tell.
Thursday, 29 January 2009