Ronald D. Moore's "companion piece" to John Carpenter's The Thing will shoot in Toronto between March and June, according to Production Weekly.

The new movie, which will be directed by Matthias van Heijningen, Jr., tells the story of the Norwegian camp that found the creature under the ice, as seen in the early portion of the 1982 movie. "It's very buried in the continuity," Moore told IGN. "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 [Carpenter] did."

Screen Rant states that the final draft has been written by Nightmare on Elm Street's Eric Heisserer, who noted that Moore's version included the brother of Kurt Russell's character in the first film, but wouldn't confirm if he was in the shooting script.