ALL SCI-FI

[Pow]

Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica reboot) was hired to write a script for The Thing prequel that ended up never being used.

"The draft had a group of international characters, one being a friend of R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) --- and a Naval spy to boot --- whose team is forced to seek shelter at the Norwegian science outpost due to becoming stuck in a blizzard.

The Norwegians begrudgingly take them in but they are fearful and paranoid that someone will try to steal their earth-shattering discovery of an alien and its starship. The alien breaks loose and begins assimilating every person and dog within reach.

The dire situation becomes even more complicated with the arrival of Russian soldiers which underlines the real life tensions between the U.S. & the USSR.

Moore's script is to carpenter's film what Aliens was to the Alien film --- a larger, action-heavy expansion of the existing mythos.

The story would have somewhat sympathetic backstory for the creature, who needs to copy living organisms likened to humans need to consume food in order to live.

Questions would be raised regarding Cold War-era duplicity (and humanity's general penchant for lying killing) and whether that makes humankind any better than the Thing itself."

I'm a big fan of RM's writing (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DSN, Star Trek: Voyager, Battlestar Galactica reboot, Virtuality TV-pilot). So I would have loved to see his version of the Thing prequel produced.