Beloved filmmaker John Carpenter (“Escape From New York”) has previously mused about a sequel to “The Thing“ in past but has been mainly focused on his music, instead of directing, by scoring the recent “Halloween” legacy sequel trilogy of movies from David Gordon Green and releasing his original music along with live stage tours. A high-profile director has now publicly asked him to score his next film, and Carpenter has agreed.
Oscar-winner Bong Joon-ho (“Mickey 17,” “Parasite”) attended a recent celebration 4K screening of Carpenter’s “The Thing” (Joon-ho named “The Thing” as one of his favorite films while chatting with Letterboxd on the red carpet of “Mickey 17”) at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday and directly asked the fellow director, while on stage after their interview together, if he would score his next untitled feature effort that is being referred to as a “horror film.”
“I wanna do your score,” Carpenter replied when asked about doing more music for other films and Joon-ho bringing up his next movie being in the horror genre. That moment led the crowd to cheer about the potential collaboration and the pair shook on it.
We don’t know very much about Joon-ho’s next film other than the expectation that it’ll be hand-drawn animation, loosely based on the visually stunning book “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of The Abyss” by French author Claire Nouvia, and he has recruited German director/actor Werner Herzog (“Jack Reacher”) to contribute by lending his extremely distinctive voice to the mysterious project.
The idea of Joon-ho recruiting folks like John Carpenter and Herzog to help work on his movies is certainly a lovely idea, and we can’t wait to see what this “horror” film ends up looking like as more details make their way to us, including potential casting news.
You can watch that exchange between the two iconic genre filmmakers below, thanks to a video posted by industry writer Karen Han, who attended the event, on social media.
