Yes, in news that is either going to excite or revile you it's been announced that a prequel to one of the best and most heart-stoppingly tense movies ever made, John Carpenters The Thing has an official start date of March this year.
The Thing was an incredibly dark, paranoid and claustraphobic film about an isolated research facility in the arctic which is set seige to by an alien parasite which mimics its host perfectly. At the start of the movie we see the climax of a Norwegian research camp brought to destruction by the hundred-thousand year old alien. It's pitch perfect timing and gruesome effects make it still one of the tensest movie experiences you can watch.
The idea for a second Thing movie has been around for years, most of the time in the form of a sequel which saw the bodies of the last two researchers brought back to New York where a global infestation ensues. Now a prequel, one of the strongest things going for it is that the story idea comes from Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen). Snyder has slowly been proving himself in film and i rank his credentials highly.
More news as it comes.