For reasons not entirely known or understandable, the classic movie The Thing From Another World, which in turn was remade into The Thing, another classic by John Carpenter, is once again getting the remake treatment, though it’s being billed as a prequel.  The cast is coming together now, with Joel Edgerton assuming the lead role and the recently announced Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing a “Ph.D candidate who joins the research team in Antarctica after it discovers a ship in ice.”

While all of this sounds moderately alarming, one can take a little solace in the fact the script was written by Ronald D. Moore, perhaps best known for rebooting Battlestar Galactica for the SyFy network.

If nothing else, Mary Elizabeth Winstead will be bringing the hotness, something missing in the first two version of The Thing…and probably for good reason.