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Carpenter found he was way too busy with filming The Thing (mostly due to the location shoot but also the post-production) and passed the duties off to someone else. He also stated that he really wanted to work with Morricone as he was a big fan.
As for why the soundtrack sounded much like his own, Morricone said he wanted to make it feel like it was a John ...
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Been searching and found this timeline picking up on a lot of timeline objects, but not specific to infections.
Also, this Two-part infection timeline analysis might be the closest thing you get to a timeline chart to this movie.
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