Bong Joon Ho scored a major W over the weekend: John Carpenter agreed to take time out his busy video game schedule and score Bong’s scary movie. At a 4K restoration screening of The Thing, Director Bong said his “next-next” film will be a horror film, and he’d love for the Master of Horror to do the tunes. “I wanna do your score,” Carpenter replied before Bong could even finish asking, and the pair made it official with a handshake on-stage. That’s legally-binding in several states!
Bong Joon Ho is a massive John Carpenter fan, who rubbed his tush extra hard into Stephen Colbert’s couch on The Late Show when he learned Carpenter had previously sat there. Director Bong also got a clue out of Carpenter as to the titular Thing’s identity at the end of the film. At the end of The Thing, MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Childs (Keith David) are the only humans left alive …unless one or both of them is actually the alien. Carpenter said there’s a hint in the middle of the film that breaks the whole case wide open.
