another remake happening

This kickstarter is for the book Frozen Hell. This post is about the movie. More about the book on the project page.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/posts/2740158

Executive Producer Alan Donnes has posted this on Facebook:

It's OFFICIAL! I received my signed contract and first check! I am Executive Producing a remake of THE THING but with additional chapters of John Campbell's groundbreaking novel, Frozen Hell, that had been lost for decades.

Now, for the first time ever, Campbell's full vision will be realized on the big screen. The new film will include the very best of RKO's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, John Carpenter's classic THE THING and both books, Frozen Hell and Who Goes There?

I never considered The Thing a remake, rather another movie based on Who Goes There?. Who knows, with the new material and the right people it might be good. It probably won't be, but we can hope.

The truth for me is the more versions the better, everyone who's been inspired by the novel is already a director of a potential new version, always deserving to make a movie based on it, cause everyone sees the same thing differently. The same is true about any good film or story, it deserves infinite number of versions or remakes, not stories that dont work. That's why we have 100s of reworkings of great theatrical plays or symphonies. That is a natural way of life, no one owns anything, all things are done based on pre-existing things, which is true about every single thing in the universe, we use existing things to make something out of it to be original. Campbell's story was already based on stories made before it, it's an ancient myth, just like Lovecraft's Mountain of Madness or Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's all based on ancient myths. Carpenter's film and 2011 version received a very limited number of fans, cult audience, the only film that has received the mainstream wider audience is the original, I think the novella has a lot to offer to new visions and talents. Paradox is that if Carpenter's version was the ultimate take on it, then it means the film's story has nothing to say to anyone anymore at this time, when I think it has, think about how many ways you could portray the paranoia, the characters trapped in those situations, how many ways you could do it, it's an incredible wealth of creativity waiting there.

A high bar to jump...1982 Carpenters The Thing is perfect.

Interesting to me that people seem to be more Ok with remakes of sci fi classics than standard movie classics.

You never hear..Godfather has a remake, or a new Clockwork Orange is in the works...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CESYU0lAMwU/
Carpenter is involved in the 'reboot' with Blumhouse

I guess the term 'reboot' will be the same as when it was used for The Predator, Halloween 2018 and Terminator Salvation/Genisys etc... i.e. a sequel

After Alan Donnes died from that "ear infection" this project are in limbo. The script was also deemed weak as it focused too much on the Norwayland aspect of the story. It's being rewritten to showcase more Americans heroes and turn those foreigners into the antagonist.

Hopefully it will feature an all black cast.