The Thing set for Remake

Variety reports that Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's classic frightner 'the Thing' The script will be written by Battlestar Gallactica exec producer Ronald D. Moore.

Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed "The Thing From Another World." That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.

Carpenter's film opened with a team arriving to find that encampment has been wiped out. The alien moved from the body of one team member to another, so it was never quite clear who the villain was.

The producers said they consider the new film to be more "a companion piece" to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.