Tobe Hooper was originally slated to direct and co-write the film before John Carpenter was attached. Hooper's version would've been drastically different from the Carpenter version, featuring an alien that did not shapeshift or assimilate, and following an Ahab-like character named "The Captain" who goes on an epic quest to find and kill The Thing. The film would've served as its own film and as both a remake and sequel to the 1951 film, with little influence from John W Campbell Jr.'s novella, which Hooper openly found to be "boring". Hooper also wanted the film to be a horror comedy with slapstick humor. It was pitched as "a swashbuckling action-adventure epic...a modern-day Moby Dick set not in the ocean but at the bottom of the world; Antarctica." Producers Drew Turner and Stuart Cohen were appalled by this pitched script and eventually fired Hooper, with Cohen later saying "we avoided a disaster...it would've been one of the worst movies ever made."
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