Because the producers think John Carpenter's cult classic “The Thing” was already perfect, so making a remake would be like "painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa", they convinced Universal Studios to allow them to create a prequel to that film which actually a remake of 1951’s film “The Thing from Another World”. Question is why they don’t think to make a sequel instead as the original film is let loose on nearby New Zealand? However, this prequel still gonna use the title of the original film since the prequel project team couldn't think of a subtitle (for example, "The Thing: Begins") that sounded good and felt reverential. Adapted from a 1938 science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. that was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written, Carpenter's “The Thing” was a more faithful adaptation of the novella with strong cast of character actors and plenty of truly astounding but grotesque make-up effects from Rob Bottin. But opening two weeks after huge sci-fi flick "E.T. " that already won the hearts and wallets of audiences back in 1982, “The Thing” eventually met a really poor box office performance. But fortunately it has gone on to gain a cult following with the release on home video and was subsequently 'novelized' in 1982, also adapted into a Dark Horse’s comic book miniseries that followed by a video game sequel in 2002. The movie even now considered as one example of the rare instance where a remake is far superior to the original. So how about this 2011 prequel? Producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, who were behind the quite good remake of "Dawn of the Dead", said that it won’t just fill out the backstory of the original but allows some of the same elements to be seen from an entirely different point of view. The plan is also to go old school with the creature effects with most of the FXs are being done practically with the minimal CG provided by FX house Image Engine who did the aliens in "District 9". Set at the Norwegian base camp several days before the events at the American base camp in the Carpenter original, chronicles how the shape-shifting alien was first discovered, the movie director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and crew also researched the original film and novella thoroughly to recreate the Norwegian camp accurately down to the smallest detail. Various Norwegian actors even were cast to play the supporting roles, though the key roles will be American characters. The language barrier between them and the English speaking characters is exploited to add to the film's feeling of paranoia
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