Bill Lancaster

They went through a ton of people.

Bill Lancaster wrote it with Harrison Ford in mind.

Can we just talk about Bill Lancaster for a minute? The son of Burt Lancaster-

Mm-hmm

... which I did not know until recently.

John Carpenter's A Thing was released in June 25th, 1982, directed by John Carpenter.

It was written by Bill Lancaster.

And I had to look this up because I did not know this.

But according to IMDb, this is based on the story Who Goes There by John, excuse me, W. Campbell.

Um, as you guys know, so why don't we just go through the, um, the quick, you know, uh, really quick kind of, um, I guess history of this.

This is from 1982, John Carpenter, uh, directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster music by Ennio Morricone, uh, who was mostly known for Westerns.

Uh, so we'll talk a little about that.

The effects were by Rob Bottin.

Honestly, I think it's a fair question to ask.

And I think what's kind of fun is they're almost... isn't an answer like yeah like there's i this is like schrodinger this is

the beauty of the script um again what was the script writer's name uh bill lancaster i i just i love that everything is so perfectly paced in this movie um you know like i had some issues uh with overall story, but script-wise, the pacing, and that has a lot to do with Carpenter too, the way scenes are set up.

You have these fade-outs in this movie, which you didn't see a lot in movies at that time.

right, so...

Bill Lancaster, who wrote the script, he wrote it with Harrison Ford or Clint Eastwood in mind.

See, now those are good

ideas.