The Thing (2011)

[j. d. worthington]

Spot on, Steve!

[J Riff]

Tailor-made to pick up where it left off. A little piece of the Thingy survives and away we go. Will see it no matter what so here's hoping.

[Dave]

Creating new thread.

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker, Kim Bubbs, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

U.S. Opening Date: October 14th, 2011

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. 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.

Palaeontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has travelled 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 aeons 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.

A prequel to The Thing! Next they'll do a prequel to Alien!

[Rob Sanders]

I am looking forward to this. i love the original. It looks from the trailer as though they have retained the original 'style'.

[Dave]

The John Carpenter version is not the original filmed version (and actually based on a John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?") but I think it is the best version, and I agree that the "style" of this looks like it would easily slip in before it. I'm not sold on the idea that we "need" this though, and I doubt I will see go to it at the cinema.

[Rodders]

I really want to see this at the cinema. John Carpenter's "The Thing" is one of my all time favourite movies. As for needing this, perhaps not. I want it though.

[Rob Sanders]

Yeah, I guess what I really meant was that it was a sequel (I think it might be a prequel) to the 1982 version rather than the black and white original. I agree that it's not needed but like Rodders I am eager to see this at the cinema.



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Rob Sanders Speculative Fiction

[J Riff]

Wow, a prequel that actually worked. Or did it? I dunno... it was pretty good while it was on. I suspect there will be a third movie, we now have the surviving girl on the loose and she can wander in on whoever plays Kurt Russel.

[steve12553]

Based on everything I read, I ordered the DVD. I watched it. Although it seemed to maintain the style of the Carpenter film, it just wasn't much. It lacked the wonderful acting of the original (a Science Fiction movie with David Keith in is always interesting) or the originality or the paranoia. It was just lacking. I was almost bored. Not a good quality for something that should be suspenseful.

[J Riff]

The original came out on the heels of Alien, and had a great cast. Not a woman in that flick, other'n the voice of the chess machine who beats MacReady at the beginning. He pours his drink into it.
What can ya expect from a flick like this - action and not much more. The third one, if and when it's made, will have to start with the US base again -and the Thing threatening the entire world. I suspect that the gal who escaped will be the one to roast it oncet and for all.

[Rodders]

Is this going to be a trilogy? I didn't think this did that well at the box office.