Many filmmakers have tried and failed to make a follow-up to John Carpenter’s The Thing. In the early 2000s, director Frank Darabont (The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption) pitched a miniseries sequel that the studio rejected, and a prequel movie from the screenwriter of Arrival launched in 2011 to brutal reviews. Even Carpenter himself hasn’t been able to craft a worthy successor to his horror sci-fi classic. Now, we can add two more names to that list: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
The duo first made a name for themselves when they wrote and produced A Quiet Place. Since then, they’ve written and directed a series of low-budget horror movies, with the latest being Heretic from A24. But the duo tells Inverse that, at one point, they took a serious run at writing the most impossible horror sequel of all time.
