I don't recall seeing this question answered, so I will go ahead.

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Robert Micallef wrote:

> Did'nt Campbell's 'Who goes there" later become the Thing?
>
> Rob
>

Yes, "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell--which Asimov called possibly
the best SF story of all time--was made into at least two versions of THE
THING  The first of dubbed by Asimov as quite possibly the worse SF film
of all time.  I think he may be right on both counts.  The later version,
from John Carpenter, was better, only because it followed the story more
closely, but was still badly flawed.  I don't know why John Carpenter's
characters have to fight so much among themselves.  Why can't they just
get along?  (:->)

--Dan Hicks

         "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love
affair, we'd never have a friendship, we'd never go into business,
because we'd be cynical.  Well, that's nonsense.  You've got to
jump off cliffs all the time, and build your wings on the way down."
                                          --Ray Bradbury