New Thing film alive and well
Universal and Strike Entertainment (Dawn of the Dead ’04) are in negotiations with rights holder Les Mougins to remake John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi flick They Live. C’mon, don’t act all surprised.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Strike’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce, while Shep Gordon of Les Mougins and Carpenter will serve as executive producers.
The original, starring Roddy Piper, told of a nomadic blue-collar worker named Nada who discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see aliens living among us. He falls in with a group of resistance fighters for a short while before venturing off to stop the invaders himself.
No writer is on board.
Gordon, an entrepreneur and music impresario who worked with Alice Cooper and Blondie, holds the rights, having financed the film as part of a multipicture deal with Carpenter that also included Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned. Universal distributed the film as part of an output deal Gordon constructed.
THR says Strike is still developing their long-mooted new version of Carpenter’s The Thing as well. All I got to say about that is…
“Hey, what’s wrong, baby?”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
