The Thing (remake)

[Brian in Mesa]

The Thing Remake Coming to Theaters
Source: Variety
November 17, 2006

Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter's The Thing, reports Variety.

The script will be written by "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore. The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.

Strike partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce and the company will co-finance the remake, to which Universal owned the rights. David Foster, who produced the original film, will executive produce.

Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed The Thing From Another World. That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.

Carpenter's film opened with a team arriving to find that encampment has been wiped out. The alien moved from the body of one team member to another, so it was never quite clear who the villain was.

The producers said they consider the new film to be more "a companion piece" to the Carpenter film than a note-for-note remake.

 

[Bada0Bing]

Wow, I guess I had better watch the original now.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

It is a remake of a remake. The orginal was filmed in the 50's IIRC.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

http://http://www.scifimoviepage.com/sept99pik.html

 

[Brian in Mesa]

It is a remake of a remake. The orginal was filmed in the 50's IIRC.

Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed The Thing From Another World. That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Carpenter's film continued the storyline of the Howard Hawks-directed The Thing From Another World. That 1951 film starred James Arness as an alien monster that wiped out workers at an Army radar station.

You are right. I forgot about the other camp they went to.

 

[NJCardFan]

The Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txjm94GnrPA

Thought this was blasphemous at first but when I learned it's a prequel to the Carpenter classic. I've also heard rumors that either at the end of the movie or after credits easter egg it shows McCready(Kurt Russell) and Childs(Keith David) are seen getting rescued. This looks excellent.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The Thing (remake)

Release Date: October 14, 2011
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
Screenwriter: Eric Heisserer
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and violence)
Website: TheThingmovie.net

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Selm, Jorgen Langhelle

Plot Summary: 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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[Shane]

Saw it last night. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Pretty clever how they did the lead into the original.