First, let's clear up the history behind the story.
#ALAN DEAN FOSTER THE THING MOVIE#
My little stint of trying out novelizations comes to an end with The Thing, a treatment of my favorite movie of all time. Put on a sweater and grab a cup of hot chocolate.more There were a large number of writers involved in the script for the film Carpenter made, but Foster did a good job of capturing Carpenter's vision and incorporating Campbell's original feel. Campbell's original story more than either of the films did. I felt that he tried to incorporate John W. His novel is based on a very early draft of the script, and there are several differences, and he also added a lot of character background and detail in order to extend the story to book length. This book is based on the John Carpenter version, but curiously was published several months prior to the release of the film in 1982. The original story was published in 1938, and there was a very popular film version in 1951. I felt that he The Thing is one of my favorite film novelizations by Foster.
The Thing is one of my favorite film novelizations by Foster. Novelization by American author Alan Dean Foster of screenplay to the 1982 Hollywood film The Thing directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. THE THING - Nov It fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.
It fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.