[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by Smasher

I liked the movie.
I'd recommend watching the original.

No Angela figure?
Frank Darabont version of The Thing?

I never picked up the Angela figure, so didn't have it for the gallery.

In 2005, Syfy Channel hired Frank Darabont to write a mini-series that would be a direct sequel to John Carpenter's The Thing. Was supposed to be 5 episodes I believe. Was about a Russian government scientist who discovers the remains of the US Antarctic Camp, and collects samples of the creature. Want to turn it into a bioweapon, but project is shut down. 30 years later, a sample is stolen and being flown to US. Plane crashes in New Mexico outside of a small town. US sets u pa quarantien zone, but doesn't find out what it is until too late, and most of town is infected. All hell breaks loose with US soldiers battling an army of Things.

Scripts were done. But show was going to be expensive, and too violent (this was before Walking Dead showed how much you could get away with). Universal eventually pulled the plug in favor of a theatrical film, which became the prequel.reboot from 2011.

The scripts are pretty easy to find. They're a really fun read, and it sounds like it would have been crazy and fun. But definitely would have cost some serious cash in later episodes.