The prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing has been quietly rumbling along in development for some time now. We know that Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore penned a draft of the script and that Eric Heisserer was brought in to do a rewrite for the film which is to be directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

Heisserer has recently been doing some on-set publicity interviews for New Line Cinema’s A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot and while doing this, he gave away a few plot points as well as some information on when The Thing might start shooting.

In this week’s A-list packed Wrap Up:

Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck and Tommy  Lee Jones are Company Men; Costner is The One; Silver rewrites Battle: Los Angeles for Aaron Eckhart; Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are in love; Magnum Pi hangs out with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in Five Killers; Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore are Bill and Hilary Clinton in The Special Relationship and Moore is less for The Thing.

What has been rumor has been officially confirmed: Universal will indeed be adding a prequel chapter to John Carpenter’s 1982 psychological-horror classic, The Thing.

Many have questioned just what a prequel to The Thing would be about, and who would be in it. Now it looks as though some of those answers are starting to come to light.

It looks like The Thing remake/prequel is moving along in development with spell-check killing director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr apparently in negotiations to helm the film.

Not only that but we may see R.J. Macready’s (Kurt Russell) brother in the companion piece to the original. Odd, considering the storyline of the film.

I have no idea how this one passed me by.

As a huge fan of John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Howard Hawks, The Thing is one of my favorite films. I have vague memories of rumblings about sequels and remakes, but I never knew that anything even remotely concrete was beginning to form. Well it turns out that a story is in place that sets the film before the events of John Carpenter’s film.

Producer Marc Abraham had this to say to Latino Review:

Seeing as how I can’t let Vic have all the fun posting, here’s something to look forward to:

“Battlestar Galactica” (BSG) creator Ronald D. Moore will remain with NBC as he just signed a two-year, seven-figure (NICE!) deal with Universal Media Studios.

He is staying with BSG through to it’s end, and is working on new projects as we speak. His mainstream work has always captured my sense of “impending dread” as I find myself engrossed in the darkness that he brings to the screen in BSG. I enjoy being depressed when it’s not my own life that’s depressing me!