The Original Fan

A PRODUCER'S GUIDE TO THE EVOLUTION AND PRODUCTION OF JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING (SEE INTRODUCTION)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

NAULS IN BLACK AND WHITE

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                Recently an eagle-eared listener at IMDB noted that John's line regarding T.K. Carter on the commen...

QUE VIVA WINDOWS

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                  ... who in the early drafts of the script was named Sanchez. It is in memory ( which can be unreliable ) that...
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CASTING BLAIR

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                From a storytelling standpoint it was our intent that Blair be infected very early on in the proceedings, a...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

THE NOVELISATION

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               The novelisation of THE THING was considered a publicity tool - Alan Dean Foster was hired by Univer...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

THE COMPUTERS

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                  THE THING, having been produced on the cusp of a digital universe, is a resolutely  all-analog film, without a fram...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

SAM PECKINPAH'S THE THING ?

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                      The day finally came when we to receive Universal's official "green light" to schedule ...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

THE SCREENPLAY

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                                        ( from last post )    ... was there someone out there of our  generation who had  no  preconce...
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