Yet another unneeded remake...this time it's "THE THING"

[Khephra]

Today's Variety reveals that some of Hollywood's A-level talent have come on to help create two new science fiction mini-series for The Sci Fi Channel.

First up is the involvement of director Ridley Scott (ALIEN, THELMA AND LOUISE, GLADIATOR) in a four-hour version of Michael Crichton's sci-fi thriller THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. Originally made as a feature that was released back in 1971, the new STRAIN project will see Scott involved in a executive producer capacity. Robert Schenkkan is adapting Crichton's novel into a screenplay. Crichton's book told the story of mankind's first encounter with an alien form of life, an extraterrestrial microbe that turns out to be deadly to human life. The military assembles a group of civilian scientists to try to study and unravel the nature of the organism before it spreads over the Earth.


Meanwhile Frank Darabont, the director of THE GREEN MILE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE MAJESTIC is producing a new version of THE THING, the third time that the story has been adapted for film. Writer David Johnson has been hired to adapt the original John W. Campbell Jr. short story that THE THING was based on (titled "Who Goes There?"). According to Darabont the project could be filming in the first part of the new year and be on the channel by late 2005 or spring of 2006. As with the new ANDROMEDA STRAIN, the new THING will be made as a four-hour mini-series.

http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270355&obj_id=42443

How can anyone even come close to John Carpenter's version?

[vi5]

1. Carpenter's version is the best.....

I love that movie. I'm a sucker for any horror or sci fi movie involving a small group of people in isolation, fending off outside supernatural forces.

[truthspeaker]

2. "It's game over, man, game over!"