"That would be something I would figure out and do and then you would discover it in the movie theater." 'The Thing' at 40: The cast & crew's definitive history of John Carpenter's masterpieceĬarpenter projected that same aura of mystery during a phone call with SYFY WIRE last summer when we attempted to get him to talk about what he'd like to see out of Universal and Blumhouse's reboot of The Thing. "I'm not gonna tell you that," he asserted. "But, yeah, I’m open to it, given that it’s honestly budgeted and there’s plenty of time to do it - and that people allow for the basketball season and the playoffs." ![]() "We might see something, but they are shrouded in total mystery, like Skull Island in King Kong," he teased. When asked by Variety if the world might see a Carpenter-directed movie "in the near future," the filmmaker provided a cryptic answer. With that said, it could be time for him to get back in the cinematic saddle. Since then, he's been content to rest on his laurels - writing music (like the film scores for the recent Halloween trilogy), playing video games, taking in basketball games, writing the occasional comic book - and why not?Ĭarpenter has more than earned a relaxing existence, particularly after a rather tumultuous career infamously defined by misunderstood masterpieces and rescinded opportunities. Nevertheless, many fans have wondered if Carpenter would ever return to the director's chair following his last effort over a decade ago with 2010's The Ward. ![]() Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Carpenter delivered stone cold classic-after-classic - even if some of them ( *cough* The Thing *cough*) were not fully appreciated at the time. His impact on horror, sci-fi, and action filmmaking cannot be understated. It's a proclamation with more than a healthy dose of validity. " John Carpenter has nothing left to prove," Variety declares at the very top of its profile on the celebrated filmmaker ahead of his 75th birthday in just a few days' time.
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