So that prequel of The Thing I mentioned some time back is now apparently a remake. This at least makes more sense. Ronald D. Moore, of the Battlestar Galactica is now on to write the script:
The producers said they consider the new film to be more “a companion piece” to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.
Meaning, I suppose, that it will probably suck on its own merits, rather than on its faithfulness to the original (which was itself a remake).