I had my first studio movie, which was a big deal." This was right after Escape from New York. We get the right writer, the right situation, we could do something. But I re-read the novella and I thought, 'You know, this is a pretty good story here. The original Thing was one of my favorite movies. "Universal had The Thing and they wanted to remake it. "It was not something I wanted to do," Carpenter admits. "He hadn't made Halloween at that point and they wanted to keep their options open." "They wanted to put it into development, but weren't sure about John," he tells SYFY WIRE over the phone. That little homage might have remained the director's only connection to the property, had it not been for his old buddy from USC film school, producer Stuart Cohen, who convinced him to take on the project, although the studio wasn't so sure. novella it was based on, Who Goes There?, to form an entirely new specimen that has been nigh-impossible to imitate all these years later.Ĭarpenter's affinity for the material was evident in 1978's Halloween, which featured a scene in which Laurie Strode and Tommy Doyle watch Thing from Another World on television just before Michael Myers' murderous rampage throughout the neighborhood. It's hard to believe that 40 years have passed since the release of John Carpenter's The Thing, which blended elements from 1951's The Thing from Another World (produced by one of Carpenter's biggest influences, Howard Hawks) and the John W.
Today, those five simple words refer to one of the greatest (if not the greatest) science fiction horror movies ever made. "The Ultimate in Alien Terror" was a mere promotional tagline in 1982.
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