{"id":1325829,"date":"2022-02-22T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1325829"},"modified":"2022-02-22T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:23:00","slug":"john-carpenter-wants-to-make-a-sequel-to-his-1982-classic-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-carpenter-wants-to-make-a-sequel-to-his-1982-classic-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter Wants to Make a Sequel to His 1982 Classic \u201cThe Thing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-carpenter-wants-to-make-a-sequel-to-his-1982-classic-the-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1325829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/screencrush.com\/tags\/john-carpenter\/\">John Carpenter <\/a>hasn\u2019t made a new movie in 12 years. His last film project that got released in theaters was the small horror film\u00a0<em>The Ward.\u00a0<\/em>It grossed about half of its $10 million budget and came and went very quickly. Since then, Carpenter has worked on music, both for films and for albums, and\u00a0developed\u00a0several projects that never quite came together.<\/p>\n<p>At 74 years old, one sometimes worries that Carpenter is unofficially retired from moviemaking, and\u00a0<em>The Ward\u00a0<\/em>may well be the last film we ever get from him. But he at least does have a few inklings about making new projects. In an interview with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/john-carpenter-halloween-escape-from-l-a-sequel-to-the-thing-1235096463\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0about the new 4K edition of his\u00a0<em>Escape From L.A.\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 Carpenter was asked whether there were any other movies from his filmography that he wishes had a sequel. And, as it turns out, there is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to do a sequel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/screencrush.com\/tags\/the-thing\/\"><em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Thing<\/em><\/a>, or a continuation, something like that,\u201d Carpenter told <em>THR.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know. See, there are a lot of things in this world I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Thing<\/em> was released in 1982 and told the story of a shape-shifting alien systematically\u00a0assimilating\u00a0the members of a team of scientists at a remote outpost in Antarctica. The film was not a hit on its initial release, but over time it\u2019s become one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved horror films of the 1980s \u2014 if not the entire history of motion pictures. As its reputation rose, it\u2019s started to get a variety of ancillary products and follow-ups. There\u2019s been comic books and board games, and a video game from 2002 that acted as a sequel to Carpenter\u2019s film (with Carpenter\u2019s approval). In 2011, Universal released a prequel film, also called\u00a0<em>The Thing<\/em>, that showed how the alien came to arrive the Antaractic outpost.<\/p>\n<p>An actual <em>Thing\u00a0<\/em>film sequel never happened though, and I have to imagine if Carpenter himself wanted to direct it, every single horror fan on the planet would be excited about that news. Given Carpenter\u2019s well-documented\u00a0hesitation to commit to a new project in the last dozen years, I remain skeptical it will ever happen. But it would be mighty cool if it did.<\/p>\n<p>The 4K version of\u00a0<em>Escape From L.A.\u00a0<\/em>will be available tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The 10 Worst Horror Movie Cliches Of All Time<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>While the horror film genre has expanded immensely over the past few decades, there\u2019s still some annoying stereotypes that just won\u2019t go away. Here are the worst clich\u00e9s in scary movie history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"logo-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/screencrush.png\/?w=100\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Carpenter hasn\u2019t made a new movie in 12 years. 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