Can I Write a THING Movie That Doesn’t Suck? (You Tell Me…)

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Can a new Thing movie work without MacReady, Outpost 31, or the snow? In this video, I try to find out by building a full Thing movie treatment act by act, using the creature as a story engine for paranoia, deduction, and containment. The story moves between a Pacific island in 1944 to a damaged American submarine, as sailors, Japanese survivors, and some Things try to outthink each other before a rescue ship arrives.

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Sources:

Huge collection of resources on The THING: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpenters-thing-story-sf-horror-game-changer/

Free assets I used to create my debrief/job backgrounds.

https://resourceboy.com/

https://texturelabs.org/