variety.com - 1/29/2009
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Van Heijningen to direct horror film Universal will add a new chapter to "The Thing," lining up another take on the paranoid horror classic most recently brought to the screen by John Carpenter in 1982. Studio has set "Battlestar Galactica" exec producer Ron Moore to write the script and ...
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... Variety has an update on Universal's remake of The Thing: Dawn of the Dead director Matthijs Van Heijningen will directing the script by BSG's Ron Moore. According to Variety, this adaptation will lean heavily from the John W. Campbell Jr's original short story " ...
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... short story “Who Goes There,” this new remake will also apparently rely strongly on this same source material.
Van Heijningen has shot blurbs for brands including Toyota, Pepsi, Heineken, Bud Light and Visa. He is also developing “Army of the Dead” at Warner Bros. with producer Zack Snyder, who also crossed from commercials to features by directing the Strike-produced “Dawn of the Dead” remake.
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