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Matthijs Van Heijningen to Helm The Thing Remake

Source:  MovieWeb.com
Variety reports that Universal has tapped Matthijs Van Heijningen for The Thing remake. The film is to be based on the seminal movie created by John Carpenter in 1982.

This new version will take place in a Norwegian camp and it will examine how the mysterious "shape-shifting alien was first discovered and overcame the inhabitants of that camp."

Ron Moore will be writing the screenplay.

The reboot will be based on the John W. Campbell Jr. short story Who Goes There. This was also the basis of the John Carpenter film and the 1951 Howard Hawks movie .


25 Comments


June 8th, 2009 4:42pm
WTF??!!! I would go w/ prequel!!! Why would they re-boot The Thing?? I hated the re-booted Halloween!!! No scare in that movie at all. Hope that doesn't happen here!!!
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January 31st, 2009 10:46am
Why are they referring this new version to a remake if the story is going to be about when the aliens were first discovered before it ended up at the camp from the original movie? Shouldn't they be calling it a prequel instead?
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January 30th, 2009 1:27am
Yeah I was thinking that too Messiah, I was like "I don't fucking speak Norwegian" lol jm I hope the movie isn't all subtitles. Or "swedes" as Kurt Russell called 'em lol :)
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January 30th, 2009 1:25am
lol Zzz asking where Cell is and then here he comes "another dman remake!"
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January 29th, 2009 7:07pm
If it's a prequel and focuses on the Norwegians...does that mean the whole movie will be in subtitles? lol...
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January 29th, 2009 6:51pm
CHRIST!! ANOTHER DMAN REMAKE!! I hope John Carpenter is not selling out again!??!
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January 29th, 2009 3:06pm
This is just going to suck!
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January 29th, 2009 1:32pm
Where's Cell....
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January 29th, 2009 12:44pm
Doesn't matter. Sounds like it'll suck either way. Remake? Prequel? Who cares? It won't be better that John Carpenters version
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January 29th, 2009 12:40pm
OKKKKKK
Told you guy from the start its a remake.

It basically to put it a remake of a remake in the perspective of a prequel.
Well that in one word 'Sucks' because we know everyone dies in the end.

They are basically rebooting / remaking the film but using the story that opened The Thing, which was what happened before the team got there. Which really isn't that all interesting.
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January 29th, 2009 10:23am
Hard pressed to make this comparable to the 82 version.
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January 29th, 2009 9:51am
This new version will take place in a Norwegian camp and it will examine how the mysterious "shape-shifting alien was first discovered and overcame the inhabitants of that camp."

Sounds more prequel than sequel. The Norwegian camp was only briefly shown in the original.
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January 29th, 2009 9:13am
A PREQUEL would be interesting with today's level of effects.

Carpenter's '82 remake is a masterpiece that still resonates chills today. Mind blowing.
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January 29th, 2009 9:07am
If this 'prequel' or story 'reboot' does well, they will probably remake the 1982 movie.
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January 29th, 2009 9:02am
Prequel. Still say they should make the sequel. Most prequels these days blow chunks. Just like Underworld 3 there won't be much to intrigue me about this project. You already know what's going to happen.
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January 29th, 2009 8:40am
This is a prequel, plain and simple.
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January 29th, 2009 7:10am
i hope there be guns!!!

killerman my biotch!!! LOOL!!!
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January 29th, 2009 6:30am
nice!
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January 29th, 2009 5:56am
This sounds more like a prequel than a remake.
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January 29th, 2009 5:49am
Isn't it easier just to copy a movie's plot and hope people don't notice the resemblance? At least they would get rid of the "remake" label that everybody hates...
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January 29th, 2009 5:37am
A remake of a remake? I knew this was going to happen sooner or later.
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January 29th, 2009 4:58am
to fucking hell with these fucked up remakes,most of em are worse than the og shit.
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January 29th, 2009 4:21am
This isn't a remake, maybe a REBOOT with a different story point of view from the norwegian camp people, which is kinda like a prequel but not lol.
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January 29th, 2009 2:26am
Gosh! I still have to watch Carpenter's one...
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January 29th, 2009 12:28am
I was hoping not, but who knows. It might have a chance of being good. I won't judge ahead of hand to much on this one.
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