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by Matt Goldberg Posted:September 30th, 2011 at 7:22 am
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Everyone who thinks that The Thing is a remake and not a prequel can be forgiven. Not only does the new film share the title of John Carpenter’s 1982 classic horror flick, but they bare the same premise: don’t trust anyone because they could be aliened-up. This new clip shows that the upcoming pre-make throws at least one new element in the mix. Because the movie takes place at the Norwegian station that initially held the alien before it escaped and made its way to the American camp, there’s a language barrier between the Norwegian scientists and Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character. Her inability to understand what they’re screaming adds an extra layer of confusion and terror to an already confusing and terrifying situation.
Hit the jump to check out the clip. The Thing opens October 14th.
Clip via MSN.
Here’s the official synopsis for The Thing:
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. 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. The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.
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Looks like more of a re-imagining then a prequel, but I’ll check it out anyway. I like the look of paranoia in that scene.
Hmmm…The Thing was the ultimate guy movie of its time, and now we’ve got a chick driving all the action, Ripley style. Seems like it’s in danger of becoming just another Aliens ripoff.
I’m gonna keep saying it till I’ve seen it…I can’t wait!!!
Then…one of two things will have transpired…
#1: It will be as fantastic as I have been hoping & harping on. It will pay homage to & enrich its predecessors, pleasing all devotees. The story’s main protagonist, Mary Elizabeth Winestead’s Kate Loyd will be as powerful & appealing to its viewers as was Kurt Russell’s R.J. MacReady. The mixture of practical magic & computer generated effects will be as amazing as the original’s, ensnaring/impressing its viewers just as surely as Rob Bottins moving works of sickening art. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s & Eric Heisserer’s story will deepen the mythology, helping the creature mystify us as much as it did those back on Station 4, U.S. Outpost 31 all the way back in 82.
#2: Everyone else will be right. It’ll suck. It’ll totally rip off its predecessor, pissing off all devotees except me…because honestly…I’m just desperate for more of this scenario & anything involving the creature. No one but me is going to give Mary Elizabeth Winestead’s character Kate Loyd a chance & she’ll never be able to shine out from beneath MacReady’s shadow. The mixture of practical magic & computer generated effects will be amazing…but no one’s gonna give it a chance because of Rob Bottins 29 some odd year old work. Poor ole Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s directing is gonna get blackballed & Eric Heisserer’s story, fantastic or not, will get shredded…because let’s face it…in most fan’s eyes…no one from the Norgie camp nor Outpost stood a chance against Carpenter’s Thing.
That’s something I refuse to accept.
This will rock those who give it a chance…I hope.
Why do we have to have a female protagonist?
A 20 something girl holed with a bunch of grown men, and she’s the only one who manages to hold her sh*t together in the face of abject terror…yeah right.
This will be so lame, so 21st century derivative. Movie by marketing committee.