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  • Are you claiming the original was a remake or the 2012 one he produced was a remake?

    Development of the film began in the mid-1970s when David Foster and fellow producer Lawrence Turman suggested to Universal Pictures an adaptation of the 1938 John W. Campbell novella Who Goes There? It had been loosely adapted once before in Howard Hawks’ and Christian Nyby’s 1951 film The Thing from Another World, but Foster and Turman wanted to develop a project that stuck more closely to the source material.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)#Production

    I’m saying the 82 film was a re-whatever of the 51 film/book.




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    I love the way it’s always assumed that a remake of The Thing would do some kind of service/disservice to John Carpenter.

    He made a fucking remake. If someone else does a remake, it’s fucking whatever. Carpenter did a fantastic fucking remake, but it’s still a remake.

    Like if someone remade The Fly. Cronenberg did a fantastic job. Is it his fucking film? No. It was a remake.