Is Hollywood ever going to make the movie The Thing 2?
Carpenter ready for THE THING 2? Report surfaces that he may have a screenplay ready to go Dateline: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 By: PATRICK SAURIOL By: News Editor 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 unt
