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Trivia / Unfinished Business (The Thing)

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  • Follow the Leader: Averted. Many of the previous efforts at continuing the story were much darker, often involving one of the two survivors either being revealed as or implied to be a Thing.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Hitchcock had toyed with the idea of shipping Kate and Mac, but eventually decided against it. He also considered pairing Irina and Yuri, but rejected this idea, and just to enforce it, he made a note that said Yuri was already married, and Irina's Memoir revealed that she was secretly gay, and already in a relationship.
    • A few ideas for sequels were considered, an early one being a concept that focused on the rescue team having to fight off the Thing, which would have ended with the last survivor escaping to the Russian camp only to realize he has been infected.
    • Hitchcock also started writing another idea for a sequel, which would have updated the setting to the present day. The concept would have involved an approach in the vein of Aliens, wherein a Canadian expedition is suddenly attacked by the Thing and loses contact with a nearby supply camp. The base's second-in-command discovers that the Canadian post was located near the site of Outpost 31, leading them to call Mac, Childs, and Kate back to participate in a rescue mission alongside a small platoon of UN soldiers and a scientist named Dr. Carrington who may or may not have been descended from the character of the same name in The Thing from Another World. The team would arrive at the outpost and find one survivor amongst the Canadians, who would become a prime suspect of infection, but one of the soldiers turns out to have been assimilated, resulting in mass paranoia whilst Carrington would attempt to go to whatever lengths to study the Thing. The idea was abandoned as Hitchcock was dissapointed with the results.

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