Carpenter confrims remake of THE FOG and it looks like he is gearing up THE THING 2

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According to a phone interview between Harry Knowles of AICN and John Carpenter, The grudges first week take has green lighted the remake of THE FOG (Penned again by Carpenter) and, although he doesn't say it, teaming up with his THE THING producer can only mean one thing (no pun intended), the long awaited sequel to his 1982 horror masterpiece, THE THING. Read here:
AICN article here
I love both films, and as a kid watched them a million times. Carpenter has been lacking in the 90's, and I hear that Ghosts of Mars was like watching vomit age. I hope Carpenter can muster up the talents of the old Carpenter and do both of these (although he isn't directing THE FOG, just writting it) out of the ballpark. I have also seen that his movie Assault on Precinct 13 has been remade from his new script, and it has an excellent cast and director. It is going to be released in either December 2004 or Jan 2005. I had read the spec script that Universal had commissioned in 92 for a sequel to THE THING, and I am glad they didn't make it. It involved another alien that is a bounty hunter that was chasing this alien. I can't remember if he crash landed on the earth at the same time that the orinal alien ship did, or if he just landed there. But the thing is the original alien ship crash landed there (as it says in the movie from the backscatter effect) "buried for thousands of years. At least." So this guy just showing up made no sens. It also took place a few months after the original and MacReady was the main character. You can find it online if you look. Russell will be playing Macready no matter what, so I am hoping this new script is tailored for Russel's age. Anyway, the bounty hunter alien and MacReady teams up to stop the government from acquireing the original mimicing alien. It was really bad. I can't believe Universal paid the guy for it. It was about as bad as the treatment that Sony paid for Godzilla 2. If you thought Godzilla 1 was bad, go look up the treatment for 2. Unbelievably bad. And jsut think that the Alien versus Predator treatment had been considered really good by fans who saw it since it was written in 1992. Thank God Carpenter has his own script that he finished in 2003. I will have faith in the man, but then when watching Escape from L.A., you kind of lose that faith. It could really rock, or really blow big monkey chunks. Again, lets just hope the old Carpenter is under the baseball cap directing this new movie.

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

Thats good news about the The Thing 2. Lets hope John Carpenter gears up to make this Sequel to it. I hope beyond hope that they don't have ANOTHER director taking over for The Thing 2 (like have they had in the past for other horror movie series just so hollywood can make more money in there pockets!!!!! 😡 )

But if John Carpenter does go ahead and green light it with him directing the sequel then that would be big news its sure to be good.

As for The Fog re make i could care less about that. I never really remeber seeing the original (i know i did) but its just been along time. But still nor do i care to either really

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[Lynchy]

Oh wow!!! A new Thing! I actually saw the original for the first time a few weeks ago and it scared the crap out of me. I loved every second of it! And now if there's a sequal coming... I'm excited. 🙂

By the way Blackmoon, it's nice to see another Jack Off Jill fan on the TMF. 🙂

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

Oh wow!!! A new Thing! I actually saw the original for the first time a few weeks ago and it scared the crap out of me. I loved every second of it! And now if there's a sequal coming... I'm excited. 🙂

By the way Blackmoon, it's nice to see another Jack Off Jill fan on the TMF. 🙂

Thanks Lynchy. yeah they rocks 🙂 (i need to get there Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers album though) i only downloaded a few songs off that cd

personal favorite songs by them. Nazi Halo Strawberry Gashes I Touch Myself and Vivica and Star No Star

 

[buggs]

Blackmoondoll

It looks like right now just THE FOG is being made by revolution studios, produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, along with THE THING's Producer David Foster:

Revolution Studios Enters The Fog
Source: Variety October 28, 2004

Revolution Studios has acquired rights to remake 1980 John Carpenter horror film The Fog, reports Variety. The Core and The Emperor's Club writer Cooper Layne will pen the script. Debra Hill and Carpenter, who wrote the original, will produce the remake with David Foster.

The original movie was set in Northern California, where a thick fog enshrouds the coastline. The fog is reminiscent of one 100 years before that wrecked a ship and drowned the seamen aboard. Sure enough, those salty dogs are back, mighty angry and out to kill whomever they find.

The Fog is forecast for a February production start.

There was originally going to be a Carpenter directed THE THING 2 going into produciton back in 1996. Universal would only green light it based on the success of Carpenter's Escape froom L.A. It bombed, so Universal pulled the plug on it. Now apearantly this script is a new script that was just finished in Feb of 2003. However, on another website, which is reporting the same AICN owner in a conversation with John Carpenter, that the last thing he knew, he wasn't directiing it.

Hey folks, Harry here... the last several days I've been getting emails coming left and right regarding John Carpenter and THE THING 2. It's popped up on a ton of different websites. Today - FOX NEWS apparently ran with the story - and when the Neo-Fascists begin rapping about John Carpenter, I figured it was time to clear it up. First, here's what I got...
Harry,

Just announced on Fox News that John Carpenter has stared work on the sequel to one of the best Horror / Sci-Fi films of the 80's - THE THING. Now, when I met John Carpenter in Atlanta for Dragon Con he stated that he absolutely loved the Dark Horse comic book sequel (released in the Mid Nineties) and was very interested in making the film if he got the funding. Having been a big fan of the original, the Dark Horse comic was an extremely well put together sequel. The events in the comic book follow MacReady & Childs sojourn out of the camp to try to find another arctic station. They were still unsure wether or not either of them were infected with the virus... until they are picked up by a US nuclear submarine and the horror starts again. It has some elements of Cameron's Aliens in it (Marines going into the station where the first movie's action unraveled) but all in all a great read. Considering that Kurt Russell and Keith David (two John Carpenter staples) have aged extremely gracefully, it would be plausible that they could reprise their roles. We will just have to see.

Sincerely

Pickman's Model

Ok, so that's what I got. Then I called up John to see what he was up to. Turns out that the story is COMPLETELY FALSE. John is not directing THE THING 2. There is no THE THING 2 with him doing it. He told me that the last thing he heard was that Universal was looking to make a SCI FI CHANNEL Miniseries - and apparently he wasn't doing anything on that.
So what is John up to? Oh, he's playing around with a few things, but nothing that he's ready to start talking about yet. So let it be known, this THING 2 rumor is total bollocks!

Then, 5 days later, Carpenter was interviewed again and said:

February 15, 2003 — In an article for SFX, John Carpenter revealed that due to the recent reappraisal of "The Thing" by the public and the success of the video game, a sequel does seem likely. He commented "I have a script Ready"

Now Variety has reported lat month that Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Gladiator) is overseeing it somewhat:

September 7, 2004 — According to Variety: The Sci Fi Channel has engineered two major talent deals, signing Ridley Scott to exec produce and supervise a four-hour remake of the 1971 thriller "The Andromeda Strain" and Frank Darabont to take charge of a four-hour remake of "The Thing."

Frank Darabount wrote the script for and directed THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE GREEN MILE. He had written many great horror screenplays that got hacked by wrong directors. I want Carpenter involved, but it looks like Universal still owns the rights and is doing to THE THING what it did to Battlestar Galactica. Now this may be a deal where, like Galactica, if a theatrical sequel or remake is made, then Foster may still have the rights to it, but a TV series is still under Universal's ownership. Battlestar Galactica rights are still owned by Glen A. Larson if a theatrical movie is made, but the SCi-Fi mini series is under the rights of Universal, who owns Sci-Fi. If Darabount is a fan of the first film, this is a good thing, but it looks like a remake or a re-imagining. But you never know, things can happen and Carpenter can get attached to it again. If it sucks, Universal can blame those involved and say it was just a TV show offshoot and go ahead with a movie and make more money. This may also be a ramake of the original source material, the Joseph Campbell story, and not a remake of John's take on Campbell's story in 1982. So they could do this and also do a sequel to Carpenter's movie and it not bo conflicting. It has happened before. And it may be a good thing too. Even though last years Battlestar Galactica miniseries wasn't what everyone hoped for, I hear that the series that sprouted from that mini-series and has the same production crew and cast is great. "What's this? Battlestar Galactica series? There isn't a series. If there was, it would be on the Sci-fi channel right now." Apearantly Sky TV in Europe would only broadcast the series if they got it before America did, so the series premiered two weeks ago in Europe and we in America will see it in April or May of 2005. After it's European run.

The remake of Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 comes out on Jan 21st, 2005. It stars:

Starring:
Ethan Hawke
Laurence Fishburne
Maria Bello
John Leguizamo
Drea de Matteo
Gabriel Byrne
Brian Dennehy
Ja Rule
Aisha Hinds
Currie Graham
Matt Craven

Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Producer: David Linde
James Schamus
Jeffrey Silver
Stephane Sperry
Screenwriter: James DeMonaco

Story:
During a snowy New Year's Eve, a mobster is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Oh wow!!! A new Thing! I actually saw the original for the first time a few weeks ago and it scared the crap out of me. I loved every second of it! And now if there's a sequal coming... I'm excited. 🙂

By the way Blackmoon, it's nice to see another Jack Off Jill fan on the TMF. 🙂

Waitasec, I'm confused. Do you mean the Carpenter remake of the original `51 movie?

 

[steph]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh buggs, this is soooooooooooo cool. I'm a huge Carpenter fan, I had no clue! thanks!

XOXO

 

[Mimi]

Did somebody say FOG......?

Okay, so it's not REALLY fog, but it looks really creepy and reminds me quite a bit of the movie. I loved the original! Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid (though the book was better, but isn't it ALWAYS?). I'll be very excited if he does indeed do a remake of it. With the special effects available in this day and age, it should make for a killer flick, provided it's done right. Cool beans! Thanks for the scoop, Boobs!

Mimi 😀

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

Waitasec, I'm confused. Do you mean the Carpenter remake of the original `51 movie?

Yeah i'm pretty sure buggs means the Remake of the 51 movie. Its being re re-made (if carpenter gets the green light to go ahead and produce it)

hope that clears it up

 

[buggs]

Actually I didn't. The 51 original was the first screen adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.'s short story "Who goes there?". Actually there were two versions made from that short story. One was the '51 THE THING (Or it's actual title that always gets cut off) THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, and the other horror classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. But THE THING was the more faitful version of the storyline, and SNATCHERS took the same idea and turned it into a new story.

Now when I say the '51 movie was the more faitful version, that isn't really true. In the story, a group of explorers in either the North or South Pole find an alien that can mutate to imitate anything it wants. The men become paranoid and the story is about the mens paranoia. In '51, not only could they not do shape shifting effects, the story was so graphic that they couldn't do it with those days audience. This was 10 years before PSYCHO, and as tame as that movie seems today, it was a shocker back then. So the producers had to change the monster into basically a walking vegatable that can regenerate, played by Gunsmoke's Sherrif Matt Dillon, James Arness.

Carpenter's '82 was not really a remake of the '51 movie as it was the very faitfull version of Campbell's book, just more gory. The story was written by Bill Landcaster, son of Burt Landcaster, who's credit before that was THE BAD NEWS BEAR. People wondered why Carpenter had a guy who only wrote a kids movie working on this horror piece. But Carpenter had faith in Landcaster, whose first draft blew everyone away. Carpenter told Landcaster to go back to the original version of the Campbell story. The monster in the Campbell short story was a space bug, and having seen too many bug movies, Carpenter didn't want to do a bug. So he asked the special effects makeup artist for the film, Rob Bottin, to get together with the films storyboard artist, Heavy Metal artist Mike Ploog, to come up wiht something different. It was Bottin who came up with the idea that every time you see this creature in it's true form, it would look different as it had immitated different people and animals every time you saw it. But it did borrow elements from the '51 movie (such as the men surrounding the Flying saucer in the ice with their arms stretched out to see the shape of it. In the '82 version, it is seen on a video tape from the Norwegian camp team who actually find the ship. So what happens in the '51 version was transferred to the Norwegian team and shown only as a back story.

Carpenter also didn't want any humor in the movie. Even though there were scenes that ended up being humorous, that was what came out of the actors portrayal of the lines. Carpenter wanted a dark version and he didn't want anyone to live at the end. He wanted an end of the world type move where everyone dies sacrificing their lives for the world. Universal, having faith in Carpenter, did ask him to shoot an alternate scene in case test audiences didn't like the everyone dies ending, which Carpenter did. It was a short shot in a small set of Russell's character being rescued by an American rescue team, and having a blood test on either a ship or another camp. The test proves that MacReady was not infected. Since we don't see Child's being tested, one can only assume that he died in the snow, but Macready made it. The test audiences loved the everyone dies ending, and Carpenter got to keep the movie the way he shot it.

In fact, Carpenter was not the original director attached to the '82 remake. Originally Carpenter was looked at but passed on for another director. Even though Carpenter had Halloween to his credit, for some reason the exec's at Universal didn't think he could pull off a big budgeted motion picture. It was originally being developed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Toby Hooper. Hooper had a draft written that either he whote solely, or colaborated on with another writer. Universal didn't like the script as it was jsut a stupid bug movie, so they took a look at Carpenter, who now didn't just have Halloween to his name, but also THE FOG, and was in production on ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

So this new THE THING that the Sci-Fi channel is not going to be a remake of the '51 movie. That was just the first adaptation of the Joseph Campbell story. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD was chosen as the title for that movie as that was what was popular for monster movies back then. They wouldn't have called the movie WHO GOES THERE as it would not have drawn audiences in. Carpenter's version was called THE THING as people stopped refering to the '51 version as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD as it was too long, so it got shortened to THE THING. What I believe the Sci-Fi channel will be doing is another version of the short story WHO GOES THERE under the name of THE THING, and not remaking the movie, but I could be wrong. But it is so early in development that I don't know if they have a script yet.

What is sad about the Carpenter version is it came out during a summer in which Hollywood had more hit movies in one summer then any other summer before or since. In that one summer you had movies that we now consider Classics:

Cat People
Conan The Barbarian
Firefox
Rocky 3
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn
TRON
Blade Runner
Poltergeist
The Road Warrior
Best Little *****house In Texas
Porky's
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
48 Hours
Night Shift
First Blood
The Dark Crystal

So the movies were staying in the theaters past their expected theatrical run, and not leaving through attrition like other summers with some good movies, and other stinkers. So THE THING got pushed back in release. But the real nail in the coffin of THE THING's theatrical release was that it was released the week after that other alien movie of 1982, ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTERIAL. Everyone acknowledges that had THE THING been released first, which it was supposed to have been, then it would have been a hit along with ET, and not overshadowed by it as no one wanted to see a movie about a bad alien when a movie about a good alien was tearing up the box office. In fact, the '82 version of THE THING didn't even make it's money back in theatrical release. I believe it only made 13 million throughout it's whole domestic release. Like Lethal Weapon 1, Carpenter's THE THING had found it's audience when it was released on video and cable. It eventually became the classic that it is. In fact it made so much money on video early on that Universal for years has been toying with making a sequel much the same way that Warner's decided to go ahead with Lethal Weapon 2 only after it's video and cable earnings.

To find out more about Carpenter's '82 version, see the unofficial site here:
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~vampire/thing/thing.htm

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

Actually I didn't. The 51 original was the first screen adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.'s short story "Who goes there?". Actually there were two versions made from that short story. One was the '51 THE THING (Or it's actual title that always gets cut off) THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, and the other horror classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. But THE THING was the more faitful version of the storyline, and SNATCHERS took the same idea and turned it into a new story. Now when I say the '51 movie was the more faitful version, that isn't really true. In the story, a group of explorers in either the North or South Pole find an alien that can mutate to imitate anything it wants. The men become paranoid and the story is about the mens paranoia. In '51, not only could they not do shape shifting effects, the story was so graphic that they couldn't do it with those days audience. This was 10 years before PSYCHO, and as tame as that movie seems today, it was a shocker back then. So the producers had to change the monster into basically a walking vegatable that can regenerate, played by Gunsmoke's Sherrif Matt Dillon, James Arness. Carpenter's '82 was not really a remake of the '51 movie as it was the very faitfull version of Campbell's book, just more gory. The story was written by Bill Landcaster, son of Burt Landcaster, who's credit before that was THE BAD NEWS BEAR. People wondered why Carpenter had a guy who only wrote a kids movie working on this horror piece. But Carpenter had faith in Landcaster, whose first draft blew everyone away. Carpenter told Landcaster to go back to the original version of the Campbell story. The monster in the Campbell short story was a space bug, and having seen too many bug movies, Carpenter didn't want to do a bug. So he asked the special effects makeup artist for the film, Rob Bottin, to get together with the films storyboard artist, Heavy Metal artist Mike Ploog, to come up wiht something different. It was Bottin who came up with the idea that every time you see this creature in it's true form, it would look different as it had immitated different people and animals every time you saw it. But it did borrow elements from the '51 movie (such as the men surrounding the Flying saucer in the ice with their arms stretched out to see the shape of it. In the '82 version, it is seen on a video tape from the Norwegian camp team who actually find the ship. So what happens in the '51 version was transferred to the Norwegian team and shown only as a back story. Carpenter also didn't want any humor in the movie. Even though there were scenes that ended up being humorous, that was what came out of the actors portrayal of the lines. Carpenter wanted a dark version and he didn't want anyone to live at the end. He wanted an end of the world type move where everyone dies sacrificing their lives for the world. Universal, having faith in Carpenter, did ask him to shoot an alternate scene in case test audiences didn't like the everyone dies ending, which Carpenter did. It was a short shot in a small set of Russell's character being rescued by an American rescue team, and having a blood test on either a ship or another camp. The test proves that MacReady was not infected. Since we don't see Child's being tested, one can only assume that he died in the snow, but Macready made it. The test audiences loved the everyone dies ending, and Carpenter got to keep the movie the way he shot it. In fact, Carpenter was not the original director attached to the '82 remake. Originally Carpenter was looked at but passed on for another director. Even though Carpenter had Halloween to his credit, for some reason the exec's at Universal didn't think he could pull off a big budgeted motion picture. It was originally being developed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Toby Hooper. Hooper had a draft written that either he whote solely, or colaborated on with another writer. Universal didn't like the script as it was jsut a stupid bug movie, so they took a look at Carpenter, who now didn't just have Halloween to his name, but also THE FOG, and was in production on ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. So this new THE THING that the Sci-Fi channel is not going to be a remake of the '51 movie. That was just the first adaptation of the Joseph Campbell story. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD was chosen as the title for that movie as that was what was popular for monster movies back then. They wouldn't have alled the movie WHO GOES THERE as it would not have drawn audiences in. Carpenter's version was called THE THING as people stopped refering to the '51 version as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD as it was too long, so it got shortened to THE THING. What I believe the Sci-Fi channel will be doing is another version of the short story WHO GOES THERE under the name of THE THING, and not remaking the movie. But it is so early in development that I don't know if they have a script yet.

What is sad about the Carpenter version is it came out during a summer in which Hollywood had more hit movies then any other summer before or since. In one summer you had movies that we now consider Classics:
Cat People
Conan The Barbarian
Firefox
Rocky 3
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn
TRON
Blade Runner
Poltergeist
Best Little *****house In Texas
Porky's
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
48 Hours
Night Shift
First Blood

So the movies were staying in the theaters past their expected theatrical run, and not leaving through attrition like other summers with some good movies, and other stinkers. So THE THING got pushed back in release. But the real nail in the coffin of THE THING's theatrical release was that it was released the week after that other alien movie of 1982, ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTERIAL. Everyone acknowledges that had THE THING been released first, which it was supposed to have been, then it would have been a hit along with ET, and not overshadowed by it as no one wanted to see a movie about a bad alien when a movie about a good alien was tearing up the box office. In fact, the '82 version of THE THING didn't even make it's money back in theatrical release. I believe it only made 13 million throughout it's whole domestic release. Like Lethal Weapon 1, Carpenter's THE THING had found it's audience when it was released on video and cable. It eventually became the classic that it is. In fact it made so much money on video early on that Universal for years has been toying with making a sequel much the same way that Warner's decided to go ahead with Lethal Weapon 2 only after it's video and cable earnings.

To find out more about Carpenter's '82 version, see the unofficial site here:
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~vampire/thing/thing.htm

wow. ok there is NO WAY i'm reading all that!!!!!

 

[buggs]

Okay just got word that Sci-Fi is calling it a sequel to Carpenter's and not a remake

So it will be a 4 hour sequel to Carpenter's '82 film and not a remake, in mini series form, like last years Battlestar Galactica mini-series. Carpenter will have no involvement in it as of right now. Well this sucks. Lets hope that Frank Darabont is so much of a fan that he makes a good sequel and not "f' the whole thing up. Boy, Sci-Fi really screwed the pooch. They got to know that the world wants a Carpenter sequel and not one by someone else, even if they are a kick ass screen writter/director. And who knows. Sci-Fi secretly may have come up to him to do it and he turned it down due to money. He did it before. Back in the 80's when THE FOG had it's network premiere on ABC, it scored very hihg in the Nielsens. I think it beat all the other channels. ABC was so happy that they aproached Carpenter about doing a TV sequel to THE FOG. Carpenter started writing the script, and then looked at what he was going to get paid, and said to himself "Do I want to devote a year of my life for this much?" and he pulled the plug on the thing. So you never know. They could have come up to him and he wanted more money, but just isn't saying so. But he is a pretty straight up guy, so if that did happen, he probably would say so in interviews.

I just hope the DP is Dean Cundey, who did Carpenters. It is doubful as he jsut does movies now, but you never know. If it isn't him, I hope the guy who does it follows Cundey's blueprint from Carpenter's. Look at Jurrassic Park, which Cundey shot, and Jurrassic Park: The Lost World, shot by another guy. I think that if Cundey was able to be the DP of Lost World, it would have been a way better sequel

 

[leafstk]

Right on, Mim's... I still remember that movie from when I was a kid... totally freaked me out!! I'm looking forward to both of these remakes 😀

Did somebody say FOG......?

Okay, so it's not REALLY fog, but it looks really creepy and reminds me quite a bit of the movie. I loved the original! Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid (though the book was better, but isn't it ALWAYS?). I'll be very excited if he does indeed do a remake of it. With the special effects available in this day and age, it should make for a killer flick, provided it's done right. Cool beans! Thanks for the scoop, Boobs!

Mimi 😀

 

[buggs]

Acording to Fangoria online, Carpenter is also fielding offers to remake Halloween

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=3026

Variety, reporting the same story, notes that the special FX will be "contemporized" (hello, CGI!) and that Carpenter has been fielding offers to remake HALLOWEEN! When will it end? —Michael Gingold

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Massive respect for much of Carpenter's older work, but he may very well have lost it long ago. Been awhile since he produced anything worth a crap.

Whenever I see "A Sci-Fi Channel Production", I avoid.

 

[He-Man]

Oh wow!!! A new Thing!

"It's Clobberin Ti..".oh, wait, wrong Thing..(but there's going to be a FF movie ...they already got most of the cast, i think...so maybe after this Thing, we'll be seeing the other Thing...I wonder which Thing would win an "Ugliest Thing contest? 😛 )

 

[mistertickle123]

I tend to agree with Dr. Bill.

Carpenter hasn't done much to rave about for quite some time.
His 1970's works including Halloween & Assault on Precinct 13 to me remain the most artistic, fresh, suspenseful and interesting in his catelog. Halloween set the tone for a generation of copy-cat movies that today still borrow tremendously from it.

I enjoyed 1980's The Fog which was frightening and very atmospheric and liked his rendering of The Thing which remained truer to the short story it was derived from than the original Howard Hawk's version but think he went a bit overboard with the special effects.
I loved the ending and look forward to seeing how they develop the story for part two. I also hope that he regains some of his old form when directing the next installment(s).

 

[Coffee]

John Carpenter has made many great Horror Movies. The Fog and The Thing are up there but not nearly a good as Holloween. I'n my humble opinion Holloween is one of the scariest movies of all times. Lets hope he goes back to that old formula for Horror Movies

 

[buggs]

Well again, Carpenter is not involved with the SciFi sequel to THE THING

Frank Darabont is overseeing it. Carpenter has a script, but Universal, who owns SciFi, has locked him out of it. He is producing THE FOG with Debra Hill and THE THING's producer David Foster, but they are not involved in THE THING 2. Also, it is rumored that he is fielding offers to remake Halloween. I don't know it, like THE FOG, he will just be in the producer seat or he will actually be directing the remake. Again, nothing official on that, only a post at Fangoria. I am not seeing it at the Official Halloween website, so this could all be rumor. I guess we will see when an offial word is released on it.

 

[maniactickler]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh buggs, this is soooooooooooo cool. I'm a huge Carpenter fan, I had no clue! thanks!

XOXO

i wasnt a big fan of the Fog. but i liked the Thing. steph, your a huge carpenter fan? i do carpentry. i have my own hammer too! 😛