Carpenter ready for THE THING 2?

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Source: Countingdown, SFX

According to a report on Counting Down, director John Carpenter has a script ready for THE THING 2. Carpenter reportedly told the magazine SFX the news, which was then forwarded by a reader to the website. The reason for Carpenter's interest in making a sequel to his 1982 film apparently stems from the success of THE THING video game released two years ago.

Corona's Coming Attractions first received reports from industry insiders in late August 2002 that Carpenter had been approached by Universal, the studio that owns the rights to THE THING, about the possibility of working on a sequel. At that time our spies told us that there was a hold-up resulting from contract negotiations between Carpenter and the studio. We never heard anything further about the rumor nor did Carpenter ever comment on it until today.

[Anonymous with the tip.]


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