Why wasn't there ever a follow up sequel to the original The Thing with Kurt Russell?

>>213868038 (OP)
All development died at the title stage.
>The Things
>The Thing 2
>Thing^2
>The Thing Lives
No one could figure out a good name.

>>213868038 (OP)
Carpenter just wants to smoke weed and play Xbox.

>>213868095
From Outer Space

>>213868095
The Things

>>213868095
Another Thing
One More Thing
And The Thing Goes On
The Thing About It Is...
One Last Thing

>>213868095
among us

>>213868038 (OP)
There was a PS2 game.

>>213868558
Thingamajig

You can't make a sequel to The Thing. When you make a sequel, you need something to spice things up and make it different. Otherwise you're just rehashing the same shit (i.e. the 2011 movie). But you can't spice up The Thing. What are you gonna do? Give it a different setting? You can't do that, because if the Thing was in ANY other setting but an Arctic wasteland, it instantly wins because it can just infect the wildlife and spread infinitely. I guess you could set it in space, but that subgenre has already been done to death

>>213868605
It even got remastered recently. Kinda strange, really.

>>213868095
Thangs

>>213868038 (OP)
>Why wasn't there ever a follow up sequel to the original The Thing with Kurt Russell?
Because that would ruin the movie forever. I thank god every day they didn't make a sequel.

>>213868716
>I guess you could set it in space, but that subgenre has already been done to death

That is probably the only thing I could think of is the Thing millions of years later after consuming Earth has moved on to other life forms to assimilate. Just skip millions into the future. Don't even answer the question to the last movie because that would ruin the speculation.

>>213868095
thinggers

>>213868095
Things Abound
One Night in Things
Thingsa Las Vegas
The Lady and the Thing
My Teacher is a Thing
The Thing from Our World
Thing Ring Do Your Thing

Frank Darabont was attached to a sequel miniseries that was planned for the Sci Fi channel but it never got past some rough script drafts. They used to be floating around. Only thing I remember was a sexy lady Thing unhinging her jaw and swallowing a guy whole.

>>213868716
I would set it in first contact between humans an whatever alien species meeting in ships or a space station when a third party shows up radio silent and the thing starts infecting the station. It would be a rehash but at least you could fold in some enemy mine shit or something

because like most John Carpenter films, it was a commercial flop

Not everything needs a fucking sequel. I'd rather see more old pulp stories like given serious adaptations in the same fashion.

>>213868038 (OP)
It did terribly at the box office

>>213869226
It was forgettable slop too, no one liked it, probably the most astroturfed movie in modern history.

>>213869176
That could’ve been fun. It was set in a desert town iirc.

>>213868038 (OP)
For the same reason there hasnt been s 9/11 2.

How do you improve on s masterpiece?
Cant.

>>213868038 (OP)
Because no one needs your fucking conveiyor of trash with new movie every few months,

>>213868038 (OP)
>everything needs a sequel!
>everything should be a franchise!
>I love to consume!

>>213868095
The T h i n g (2012)

>>213870608
>astroturfed is when a movie flops but later becomes a classic
I can see why you think it’s bad, you’re retarded.

A new Thing movie could potentially be a really great way to attack the high amount of distrust social groups currently have between each other in the Western world. Something like a bunch of different world governments do a multinational hush up job and a crash landed Thing vessel, but they all get worked the fuck over because they can't tolerate each other. Mit b cool.

>>213868038 (OP)
The first film was never received with the acclaim it deserved and therefore any sequel or further work was cancelled.

>>213868716
They find the remains of the thing and decide to study it on a space station, maybe even try to communicate

>>213868716
>You can't do that, because if the Thing was in ANY other setting but an Arctic wasteland, it instantly wins because it can just infect the wildlife and spread infinitely
Just nuke 'em shits. Pull AvP: Requiem ending.

>>213869176
There was also a fun bit where a guy falsely accused of being the thing turns out to be one. And something about the thing egg attacking a woman once she cracks it open over a hot pan. And there would've been a kino moment where all the things roar at once to signal the beginning of their takeover of a city.

The game was the sequel. At the time they were trying to use games as a movie like interactive immersive story telling medium. Could argue they got mixed results. Anyway, back when g4 was a thing over 20 years the makers kf the game did confirm the game is the actual sequel.
Buffy kinda did the same thing, except it transitioned to comics. I think a handful used video games canon... evil dead? I dunno. I cant remember

>>213868716
You're thinking the Thing is like a Xenomorph - a mindless bug, but the Thing is sophisticated and was fighting for it's life in the original film. Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Yes, the Thing would be invincible in civlization, but that invincibility would make it benevolent and relaxed. I imagine a sequel or even a tv series where it travels from town to town solving problems for people, kind of like Highway to Heaven, with its on going goal to build a warp capable ship and returning home to its wife and children.