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When is a stupid Hollywood remake not necessarily a stupid Hollywood remake? No, the answer is not, "When it's ajar." The answer is, "When you've got one of the greatest contemporary genre talents attached to the remake."

Such might be the case with John Carpenter's "The Thing," which we've long known would be getting the reboot treatment. An update from Production Weekly reveals that the movie — set to be a prequel to Carpenter's horror classic — will shoot in Toronto from March until June. Read more...

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It's been tapped twice before, most famously by John Carpenter, and now "The Thing" is getting a third treatment as Universal's long-gestating re-imagining of the classic tale finally moves forward. "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ronald Moore is still penning the script, and according to Variety the project now has its director: Matthijs Van Heijningen, confirming earlier reports.

Of course, John Carpenter's "Thing" was itself a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film "The Thing From Another World." The remake aims to stick close to the short story that spawned both movies, John W. Campbell Jr.'s chilling "Who Goes There."

The story goes a little something like this -- a group of Norwegian researchers in Antarctica discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice. They thaw it out (always a bad idea) and awaken its alien pilot, who can assume the form of any living thing, perfectly mimicking its personality and even absorbing its memories. Read more...

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