Released in 1982, John Carpenter's sci-fi horror cult classic The Thing is getting a reboot. Itself a reboot of sorts, based on John W Campbell Jr's novel Who Goes There? Much like the 1951 film The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter’s version starred Kurt Russell as helicopter pilot R J MacReady. The project got the green light from Universal Studios and Blumhouse following a Kickstarter campaign from writer John Betancourt, who initiated the project to finance the release of Campbell's lost novel Frozen Hell. The project is yet the latest in a trend of seemingly endless remakes and sequels, but there’s something notable about this remake in particular, and that’s the fact that it’s a John Carpenter/Kurt Russell.
Way back in 2015, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced that he would be producing and starring in an upcoming remake of 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China, another John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration. Announced around the same time, FOX had planned to remake 1981’s Escape From New York, which, as we’re sure you’ve guessed, is yet another John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration. That just leaves us with Escape From L.A., an ill-fated sequel to Escape From New York, unless of course you consider the 1979 made for TV Elvis biopic the two worked on, which we hope will never be mentioned again.
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