Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Michael Allen
The Thing 2011 Set VisitThe prequel to John Carpenter's original The Thing now has a synopsis. This prequel will show the events that took place in the Norwegian camp before an alien creature attacked an isolated American research facility in the original 1982 film (Dread). This latest film will release April 29th, 2011 and this movie was partially shot in Toronto, Ontario. A second still is below, for those who have an interest in the project.
The synopsis for The Thing here:
"Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman.
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In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago, but it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish" (Dread).
Release Date: April 29th, 2011 (Theatrical).
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.
Writers: Eric Heisserer and Ronald D. Moore.
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Eric Christian Olsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju, and Jo Adrian Haavind.
Sources:
The Thing at Dread Central
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2 comments:
Just wanted to make clear that The Thing is no Carpenter original. The Thing 1982 is a remake of The Thing From Another World, released in the early 1950's. Which is based on a novel from 1951.
John W. Campbell Jr. (story "Who Goes There?")
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