Everything that the Thing does was in self-defense. The Thing crash lands on an unknown planet, and gets frozen in ice.

After 100,000 years frozen in ice, the Thing is found and thawed by unknown aliens. Of course the Thing is frightened by this situation. Lost and alone with unknown aliens surrounding it. The Thing's first response was a flight or fight response, it choose to fight to defend itself from the unknown aliens by assimilating. Assimilating is the Thing's version of our fisticuffs. The Thing is trying to survive by doing the only way he knew how, by assimilating, changing all the aliens into itself to ensure it's safety.

After the Thing narrowly escaped the Norwegians, the Thing finds itself with more unknown aliens, the Americans.

Since the Thing knows how dangerous humans are to it, the Thing learns from it's experience and adopts a more stealthy approach to the Americans.

The Thing's goals at this point is to escape these dangerous aliens and make it back into space by building it's own spaceship.

To the Thing, we are the monsters.

I like to assume the government finds the station and finds the tapes as well, therefor telling the government what happened there and what the thing was. It always annoyed me how they seemingly destroyed all the research and evidence of it when destroying the station. I like to assume they hid it somewhere for someone else to find, but that’s just me.

In-between writing, I occasionally find older films to practice writing treatments on, either reimagining or doing a follow-up to them.

Starman came to mind. Regardless of the short lived TV show, I thought about doing my own follow-up. When I saw that Sony had plans to remake the film.

Personally I don't think the original should be touched. Beautiful film, and I've always been a fan of Carpenter's work.

But I'm curious if anyone has heard anything recently?

What happens to the “Things” in 2011

A couple of questions with the things in the thing 2011. When the ice block thing escapes who does it kill first? Is it the husky? If so where is he during all the movie? The first time the audience see the thing it’s still in its bug form, why wouldn’t it be in its newly assimilated form? It gets killed as it try’s to assimilate Kinric. So who infected the helicopter crew chief? Dog thing? So is the dog thing lurking around the background the whole movie? Also it’s never talked about if the helicopter thing survived the crash. If the American were able to reach the camp I’m sure the thing could have turned into something that would have had the ability to run fast to the safety of the camp quicker than any human. Was he out there with dog thing watching the humans blow up the camp, smiling?