RE: Ennio Morricone's excellent score to this movie. Sadly, Carpenter used a fraction of the music Morricone actually composed for this movie. In an interview, Morricone said that Carpenter never gave him an idea of the type of score he wanted, so Morricone composed a wide variety of cues, but Carpenter used mostly cues that sounded like his own work, which is strange because Carpenter has stated that Morricone is one of his influences. Though Carpenter praised one of the orchestral cues on the audio narration of the Director's Cut of THE THING, little of Morricone's orchestral cues made it into the movie, including my favorite piece, which IS on the soundtrack, called BESTIALITY. Morricone has said the reason he produced THE THING soundtrack himself was to let people hear some of the orchestral music that never made it into the movie.
There is talk of a THE THING II (I guess based on the comic book), and Carpenter and Russell are interested, but two people that are not expected back are Bottin (as he is off directing some movie or so the reports go) and Morricone, who was not happy with the way his music was treated.
There is talk of a THE THING II (I guess based on the comic book), and Carpenter and Russell are interested, but two people that are not expected back are Bottin (as he is off directing some movie or so the reports go) and Morricone, who was not happy with the way his music was treated.