Universal set for 'The Thing' reboot
Franck Tabouring
"The Thing" is coming back to the big screen.
According to Variety, Universal Pictures is currently working on a re-imagining of the horror classic, which moved to the big screen twice already: in 1951 with "The Thing from Another World" and in 1982 with John Carpenter's "The Thing."
The trade says the new film will borrow a lot from John W. Campbell Jr.'s "Who Goes There," the short story the two film versions are based on.
"It is set in a Norwegian camp and chronicles how the shape-shifting alien was first discovered and overcame the inhabitants of that camp."
Matthijs Van Heijningen, whose credits include a bunch of commercials, will direct the project. Ron Moore will write the script.
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