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Who Goes There?

has been adapted three times as a motion picture.

The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), with James Arness as the Thing, Kenneth Tobey as the USAF officer, and Robert O. Cornthwaite as the lead scientist, was a rather loose adaptation.

Its 1982 remake The Thing by director John Carpenter, from a Bill Lancaster screenplay, stuck more closely to Campbell's original story.

Prior to John Carpenter's involvement, William F. Nolan, author of Logan's Run, wrote a Goes There?

screen treatment for Universal Studios in 1978, not published until 2009 in the Rocket Ride Books edition of Who Goes There?

Nolan's alternate take on Campbell's story downplays monster elements in favor of an " imposter " theme, in a vein similar to the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.

A third adaptation, also titled The Thing, was released on October 14, 2011 and serves as a prequel to the events of Carpenter's film.