John Carpenter May Get Involved with The Thing Reboot!

Let’s be real for a second, The Thing remake was an utter dud when it was released in 2011. It lacked about every component of the original starring Kurt Russell, and that was all due to the brilliant mind behind the film, John Carpenter.

We are now hearing that John Carpenter may get involved with The Thing reboot since Blumhouse has obtained rights to the film. Read on for more…

CelebNMovies247.com reports during a recent interview with horror maestro and filmmaking legend John Carpenter, the Halloween director teased that The Thing reboot is in development courtesy of Blumhouse Productions and Jason Blum.

After declaring that the 1982 science fiction horror movie classic ‘The Thing’ is the one from his back catalog that he is most proud of, Carpenter all but confirmed that the reboot is happening and that he may even be involved.

According to WGTC John Carpenter, he revealed at the Fantasia International Film Festival:

I think he’s gonna be working on The Thing… rebooting The Thing. I may be involved with that. Maybe. Down the road.

You may recall that earlier in the year it was announced that a big-screen adaptation of Frozen Hell was in the works. For those unaware, Frozen Hell is the recently unearthed expanded version of John W. Campbell Jr’s novella Who Goes There?, which served as the basis for Carpenter’s The Thing.

Published in 1938, Who Goes There? was released as a novella despite Campbell allegedly having enough material for a full novel. Though it was never released, the uncovered works was tracked down in 2018 by John Betancourt, and a Kickstarter campaign soon followed, collecting funds to have the novel published.

In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter’s iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell’s original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication. The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered.