The Academy Museum is launching a screening series retrospective of filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s filmography in conjunction with its Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho exhibition, and it’s launching with a special screening of the film that influenced Bong’s style: John Carpenter’s The Thing.

The special 4K presentation commences on March 22 at the David Geffen Theater, with tickets opening to the public on February 21 at 9Am Pt.

As if that’s not enough of an instant sell, Bong Joon Ho, who selected the film for this series, will be in attendance with horror master John Carpenter himself for a conversation about the sci-fi horror classic.

In the film based on John W. Campbell Jr’s short story, a research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

“Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica,...