Let me get this straight...The dude who did the successful remake of the TV show "Battlestar Galactica" is taking on a remake of writer-director John Carpenter's remake of a horror-science fiction classic? Did I mess all that up?
That's the word as reported by Variety. Universal will hire Ron Moore of Galactica to write the script for a new version of "The Thing" that will draw from Carpenter's brilliant film starring Kurt Russell and the short story "Who Goes There."
I am cool with Ron Moore because he has done us proud with "Battlestar Galactica," but some of these remakes of past films are happening faster than even I can handle. Well, if anyone can find an interesting new angle to take on "The Thing" it would be Moore. We'll see...
Read more at Variety.
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