The trailer for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s remake/prequel of The Thing has gone online. The film shares the same title of the classic 1982 John Carpenter film but takes place before the events of that movie. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays paleontologist Kate Lloyd who works with a Norwegian scientific team that stumbles upon an ancient extraterrestrial ship in Antarctica. Fans of the original know that it’s safe to assume that matters go downhill from there. After watching this trailer, I’m have no idea what the new film brings to the table.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The film also stars Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The Thing opens October 14th. Click here to read Steve’s set visit.
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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.
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All this heat is making me firsty!
That is the best first response I have seen. Ha. Also, I hate to say it, but I don’t think it matters if it brings something “new” to the table. It’s going to be difficult to trump 2 movies previous of it, 1 the original and the other a re-envisioning; I just hope for something that does mock the system brought forward by John Carpenter’s masterpiece. I love The Thing, in all its 80′s effects that are not seen as often. Prosthetic’s, Stop-Motion, miniatures, models. Man, I miss those days!
“Does not”
What this Thing has that the other Thing didn’t: alien spaceship
What the other Thing had that this Thing doesn’t: Wilford Brimley
Cocoon, Oatmeal, Grandpa, Diabeetus, and a very rare, no mustached Wilford Brimley
Hmm, looks good as a movie. But as a prequel its not very convincing as it doesnt have that 70s/80s vibe which is essential for a prequel to the Thing. Looks a bit too polished.
Also, that chick in the trailer seemed mildly annoying (in that AVP way) Her line, “one of us isn’t who they say they are seemed” to jump the gun a bit. I could be wrong and I hope I am, because The THING is one of my favorite Horror films, and a prequel has been my mind since it came out.
I was hoping for a simpler looking film like the Swedish version of
“Let the right one in”.
John Carpenter’s The Thing is in my top 5 of all time movies. I have reservations, but because its not a “remake of a remake” I have hope for it.
um… the Dark Knight Rises trailer is circling everywhere. Why don’t you guys have it here? BTW – it is exactly in accordance with the script you received.
Because it hasn’t been officially released by warner brothers. No point in posting a shitty bootleg. Just wait and see it in the theatre with Harry Potter or it’ll be online in HD by the beginning of next week.
the DKR trailer is here: http://video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-snc6/232135/243/117848111641588_56068.mp4?oh=78c6ba3b23dda767162d6266cb2f14d5&oe=4E21E400&l3s=20110714120824&l3e=20110716121824&lh=04652db43763b81f8c1ff
Who is that in the hospital bed? Is that Ra’s Al-Ghul? Damn I want to see that movie today!
I’m not seeing anything but what I’ve feared since this movie got announced. It’s taking the original story and just crow-barring in the modern horror tricks. The hot young crowd, shots of cheap cellular animations, big over the top expansive CG shot (namely the 02:04 mark) and people shouting “NO!” or some variation there of.
That flash editing got ridiculous, and worst of all nothing was happening. You literally had three seconds of a scene, and then cut to black, and then the next scene for another three seconds. You understand how there was almost no point to it. I an just imagine a director and editor sitting behind a booth, with the former just jumping with joy shouting, “Now cut to black!”, while the said editor despondently rolling their head back and forth along a keyboard.
Okay, I’m cynical and can be utterly wrong, but I can’t see past the bad here.
TDKR trailer will be released officially online on July 18th
Pointless really. Seeing as the ending is pretty obvious for everyone who has seen John Carpenters The Thing…only 2 men and a dog will survive, shhhh.
Though this doesn’t look nearly as bad as i was fearing it will still be an epic fail as it is ultimately an unnecessary story. We dont need to know what happens because we know how the first one started and is best left to the viewers imagination. Its just an excuse for yet another reboot in disguise to kick start a new franchise! Its like making a prequel to Predator about the team that went in first that got killed by the alien, we do not need to see it because we have a thing called imaginations which adds an element to the film that lets the audience imagine how things may have happened in there own way, something more films these days are taking away from the viewers imo…i mean come on i bet everyone had better ideas about what the Clone Wars looked like compared the Lucas’ bs fed films?
Anyway, just go watch the original The Thing, a masterpiece of sci-fi/horror!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the warmest place to hide!
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