The Thing (2011)

After LOTS of years of writing & development, the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic seems about to start shooting! 💃

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/mary-elizabeth-winstead-joel-edgerton-the-thing-universal-john-carpenter.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I think it's a great show of respect to Carpenter & company; doing a prequel instead of a remake. No one would blame them after nearly thirty years, to want to start over. But it's that Norwegian camp at the beginning...we can finally see what happens.

Hello...?

Bueller?...........Bueller?...

I'd rather a sequel personally.

Maybe a sequel would follow this, if it's successful. Keeping the mystery of the final scene going has been part of that film's appeal.

Not sure if there was a thread for this but the search function was being stupid anyway

yeah theres a prequel coming dealing with the Norwegian's that find the alien

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=16781

Pictures- http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/imageGallery/The_Thing

Really i thought they were just going to remake it?

Originally posted by darthmaul1
Really i thought they were just going to remake it?

well remake it for a second time.

Yummpin Yimminy.

I love Carpenter's remake, this has promise.

Comes out in April, yay! A teaser trailer had already leaked, but I can't find it.

So the release date is set for April 29, 2011?

I don't feel positive about this. 😬

A film released on the cusp of the summer movie season, often sends the message the studio doesn't think it can compete with other films in a busy season. Even February-March has become a better window for release these days. No film released the last weekend in April has ever done much of anything ( see The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, No Escape etc.)

I don't have high hopes for this.

why's that?

The big thing would be explaining the presence of some non-Norwegians in the camp. Maybe when that helicopter sailed off to the hunt the Thing, survivors got out some other way and made it to civilization, which the men at the US camp would never have known.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f88/t539708.html

Should merge the two topics.

Like i said in the other one

"Not sure if there was a thread for this but the search function was being stupid anyway"....which it does.

It's a prequel.

Originally posted by MildPossession
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f88/t539708.html

Should merge the two topics.

Except we're in two different forums. Which one should it be...

The original topic, and I believe that's this one, so the Horror section.

We do one thing, how it ends.