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While attending a special screening of the finale of Battlestar Galactica, that show's executive producer and head writer -- who also happens to be the screenwriter on the Thing sequel screenplay currently in development -- spoke about his work on the project.

"I did my drafts," said writer Ronald D. Moore to IGN at the event. "They were happy. They have a director and, you know, it's the feature world and I'm not the key player so we just wait and see if they're going to greenlight it or not. I'm not the chef. I'm the short-order cook who comes in and does my thing and we'll see what they want to serve."

Moore was also able to illuminate some clarification on his proposed story and how it fits into the Thing universe, confirming that it indeed a prequel and not a remake or sequel. "Well, it's not a remake," he explained. "It's really a companion piece to the Carpenter version. We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did, so it's very buried in the continuity [and] it's supposed to be the other story that you saw part of. So we didn't want to reinvent it. It was really much the opposite. We really wanted to have this flow seamlessly into what he did."