Variety reports that Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment will produce a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 film "The Thing" with commercials director Matthijs van Heijningen making his feature film debut. "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ron Moore will pen the screenplay.

The new plot will borrow materials from John W. Campbell Jr.'s novel "Who Goes There?" from which the 1982 film and the first film adaptation in 1951, "The Thing from Another World," were based on.

The story will be set in a Norwegian camp and will chronicle how they first discovered the alien that inhabited the camp.