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Eric Heisserer, the fellow doing a rewrite of The Thing prequel screenplay, spoke with Bloody Disgusting and talked about the proposed movie's story elements, eliminating some of the mystery surrounding the story but also not wishing to answer yes or no to other questions.. For example, those rumors that there's a character in Heisserer's screenplay that is supposed to be the brother of Kurt Russell's character from the 1982 movie? "That was certainly a character in Ronald Moore's draft," Heisserer said. "I can't comment on whether or not we're going to keep that going forward."

Heisserer said that he is looking very closely at the scenes in Carpenter's Thing that take place in the Norwegian base and working backward to create what happens in his screenplay. "It’s a really fascinating way to construct a story because were doing it by autopsy, by examining very, very closely everything we know about the Norwegian camp and about the events that happened there from photos and video footage that’s recovered,” he told the site, "from a visit to the base, the director, producer and I have gone through it countless times marking, you know, there’s a fire axe in the door, we have to account for that…were having to reverse engineer it, so those details all matter to us ‘cause it all has to make sense."