THE THING Director John Carpenter Is Teaming With Blumhouse To Reboot The Classic Horror Franchise

THE THING Director John Carpenter Is Teaming With Blumhouse To Reboot The Classic Horror Franchise

2011's remake of The Thing, which served as a prequel to the original film, didn't leave much of a lasting impact, but legendary filmmaker John Carpenter is now teaming with Blumhouse for a new version!

By Nighthawk01 - Aug 25, 2020 02:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Variety

The Thing franchise lives! 

Director of the 1982 horror classic, John Carpenter, confirmed during a panel at the 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal that he's developing a reboot with Blumhouse Productions. Upon receiving the Cheval Noir award, the filmmaker was asked whether he has a new project in development with founder and CEO Jason Blum.

"I have? I don’t know about that," Carpenter responded. "But we’ve talked about - I think he’s going to be working on The Thing, rebooting The Thing. I’m involved with that, maybe. Down the road." 

Unfortunately, the legendary filmmaker did not specify whether this will be a prequel or sequel, but Kurt Russell returning to star in whatever form this reboot takes would surely be appreciated by fans. 

The 2011 film served as a prequel to Carpenter's classic film which, upon release, flopped at the box office and received negative reviews. In the years that followed, it became revered as one of the best horror films ever made, and was itself a remake of 1951's The Thing From Another World

There are countless directions another story set in that world could take, and while Blumhouse's Fantasy Island remake bombed, the studio is almost certainly riding high after The Invisible Man's success. 

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manofillintent1
manofillintent1 - 8/25/2020, 2:49 AM
I only recently found out the 2011 thing was done with all practical effects and they cgi’d all over them 🤦🏻‍♂️
GothamSon
GothamSon - 8/25/2020, 2:54 AM
@manofillintent1 - Same. The ME Winstead movie could've been brilliant done like this, all practical effects

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3430487/practical-effects-tests-uploaded-thing-2011/



manofillintent1
manofillintent1 - 8/25/2020, 2:58 AM
@GothamSon - insane, I mean I don’t remember liking it but I probably would have been more tolerable of it if they didn’t mess around with it like that
GothamSon
GothamSon - 8/25/2020, 3:06 AM
@manofillintent1 - Yep. 'Studio interference' taken to the extreme
NathanielX
NathanielX - 8/25/2020, 4:32 AM
@manofillintent1 - That.movie really needs a Snydercut treatment.
dracula
dracula - 8/25/2020, 2:49 AM
Could do a sequel, a while back the scifi channel had a pretty cool idea for a tv miniseries that would have had the thing get loose in a town after being picked up by the soviets after the original. Would have used practical effects and would have seen the thing evolve to being an airborne virus type thing
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 8/25/2020, 11:02 AM
@dracula - I read about that and it actually sounded really interesting. I wish that would have happened.
LadiesmanBumble
LadiesmanBumble - 8/25/2020, 2:52 AM
Hey, just as long as it's better than the 2011 prequel/reboot/whatever that movie was, I'll watch it.
dracula
dracula - 8/25/2020, 3:00 AM
@LadiesmanBumble - and dont cover up the practical effects with cgi again
GothamSon
GothamSon - 8/25/2020, 3:10 AM
@dracula - (*Bolg has joined the chat*)

dracula
dracula - 8/25/2020, 3:13 AM
@GothamSon - Wait did The Hobbit originlly have practical effects like Lord Of The Rings? Man so many stupid decisions with that trilogy. Would have just been fine as 1 maybe 2 movies, and cut the pointless lord of the rings connections
GothamSon
GothamSon - 8/25/2020, 3:52 AM
@dracula - No disrespect meant to Peter Jackson, who was massively short on time and budget to finish the movie when the studio wanted it.

But all the major Orc characters were done like Lurtz and Gothmog, all practical, and he was forced to go with CGI instead due to time issues.

Conan Stevens originally played Bolg before Manu Bennet. Alos, it became a problem of 'too many cooks' changing the design too many times until they couldn't decide which to go with.

(EDIT: it seems that all the original Hobbit designs have been scrubbed from the net, and the full Bolg/Azog problems can only be found in the Hobbit bonus 'appendices' on the blu-ray disc)




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Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 8/25/2020, 2:59 AM
Yeah, it could mean anything. Probably just using his name to get the good will from the fans. Blumhouse productions are usually pretty mediocre, but sometimes they deliver good stuff, like Upgrade or The Invisible Man.
dracula
dracula - 8/25/2020, 3:02 AM
Brought back Halloween, now The Thing, wonder what will be next

Escape From New York
Big Trouble In Little China
The Fog
Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 8/25/2020, 3:04 AM
@dracula - Ghosts of Mars
dracula
dracula - 8/25/2020, 3:14 AM
@Spawnnn - never saw that one
Goldboink
Goldboink - 8/25/2020, 7:45 AM
@dracula -
At least Escape from New York would be timely.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 8/25/2020, 3:28 AM
John Carpenter is my all-time favorite director, The Thing is his magnum opus and both my all-time favorite horror movie and one of my all-time favorite movies period. There's no need for a new take on the material. However, if they absolutely have to do this, they should revisit the abandoned idea for a sequel, where a sample of the Thing gets loose on a small town in New Mexico and we follow the hopeless attempts to quarantine it.
Repian
Repian - 8/25/2020, 4:02 AM
If they want to adapt Hell Frozen, it would be better on a Netflix or HBO Show. 10 episodes to adapt the book and the development of all the characters and the plot.
NathanielX
NathanielX - 8/25/2020, 4:33 AM
It was called Life 😆.
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 8/25/2020, 5:19 AM
Childs - How will we reboot it?
MacReady - Maybe we shouldn’t.
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