Official trailer for The Thing tells an origin story

How can any fan of John Carpenter’s classic not want to see if someone’s got the juice to riff on perfection? Before punching the auto-backlash button asking, “Why do we need a remake?!”, please remember the equally automatic argument: The 1982 version was already a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 expedition into depths of Cold War paranoia. Technically this is a prequel, not a remake. Same Shit, Different Day, maybe. Same Thing, Different Camp, absolutely.