Half_cdp
Puede que fuese porque RKO poseía los derechos:
"In 1950, Lederer and Hecht convinced Hawks to buy the rights to "Who Goes There?"."
O quizás por que el productor compró los derechos de varias películas de RKO para hacer remakes:
(aquí se dice explícitamente que el productor compró los derechos pensando en un remake, pero que finalmente se prefirió readaptar la novela más fielmente)
In 1980, Fantasy Newsletter reported that Wilbur Stark had bought the rights to several old RKO Pictures fantasy films, intending to remake them, and suggested the most significant of these purchases was The Thing From Another World.[34] This soon led to the making of a more faithful, though initially poorly received, adaptation of Campbell's story, directed by John Carpenter, released in 1982 under the title The Thing, with Stark as executive producer.[35][36] It paid homage to the 1951 film by using the same "slow burning letters through background" opening title sequence. Carpenter's earlier film, Halloween (1978), also paid homage when the protagonist is shown watching The Thing from Another World on television.
Por cierto, "Who goes there" tiene otra adaptación:
- Horror express (1972):
In 1972, director Eugenio Martín and producer Bernard Gordon made Horror Express, a Spanish-British co-production that serves as a second, looser adaptation of Campbell's novella.
