Ronald D. Moore Talks The Thing Prequel!

The much talked about prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror The Thing, is about to begin production .

Writer Ronald D. Moore has completed the script and has been talking to SCI FI Wire about the movie.

In the prequel we’ll get to see the body-snatching alien just before it attacked Kurt Russell’s character in the 1982 movie.

The below is taken from www.scifiwire.com

Where are things at with The Thing?

Moore: I was working on The Thing. I finished. I did my last draft a few weeks ago and turned it in. They [Universal Pictures] seem happy. They have a director [Matthijs Van Heijningen] assigned, and we’ll wait to see when and if they green-light it.

What was your goal with this new version?

Moore: Well, the idea was to make a companion piece to Carpenter’s. I started on the project with the feeling that Carpenter’s version is just an amazing piece of work. It’s a great film, and we really wanted to honor that version.

And so you’ve gone the prequel route?

Moore: We wanted a piece that would link up to [the Carpenter film] and not supplant it. So we didn’t try to sort of completely reinvent what it was. We wanted a movie that would sort of live alongside it.