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The Thing (Prequel) [2011]

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« on: October 10, 2010, 07:48:38 pm »

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The Thing invades New York Comic Con.

NYCC: What?! A prequel to John Carpenter's classic The Thing? What do we need that for?!

Well, the people behind the film -- also called The Thing by the way -- showed up at New York Comic Con today to convince all in attendance that they've actually made a movie that can live up to the Carpenter horror masterpiece. Did they succeed? Read on...

It was in the IGN Theater where director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and his cast made their pitch, ably assisted by IGN's Eric Moro, who moderated the panel. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in The Thing as an American who finds herself on a scientific expedition in Antarctica. She wasn't able to attend the convention because she's actually getting married today, but several of the actors from the film were present.

First off, the group debuted the trailer for the picture. It begins with Winstead in the U.S. She learns that she will be going to Antarctica. The pace of the clip speeds up as we see the infamous block of ice from the first film -- the ice that encases the alien of the title. Glimpses of the characters exploring an ice cave mix with shots of a drill penetrating the ice, as we hear a voiceover of one of the scientist characters saying, "It is surely not from this world." The drilling continues. "Frozen for thousands of years," the voice says. "From this point on our sense of identity will change." The pace of the trailer builds up to quicker and quicker cuts as the drill goes deeper. Title cards flash on the screen: "In a place where there is nothing…" More cuts to the characters while the creature can be glimpsed in the background. Explosions. Flamethrowers. "They found… something."

The funny thing is the cast jumped down off the stage to the theater seats to watch the trailer along with everyone else… and then had to climb back up once the panel started proper.



Why return to The Thing? It started after the filmmakers made the Dawn of the Dead remake with Universal. They were looking at the Universal library, and one of the great titles that popped out at them was The Thing. This movie precedes that film, they said, and it's the story of the Norwegian camp from the Carpenter movie. They made no attempt to remake that film because "it's brilliant." It was very important "not to paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa," they said. So once they convinced Universal that there was an actual reason to make the film, they jumped into the water pretty heavily and examined the Carpenter film to see what pieces from that movie would fit with their film. "It was like reverse engineering."

The director explained that as a European himself he was always fascinated with what happened to "those poor bastards, the Norwegians. Who were these people?"

Joel Edgerton, who fanboys will remember as the young Uncle Owen from the Star Wars prequels, explained that he plays an American helicopter pilot in the film. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko from Lost) is Edgerton's buddy, and the actor said he hopefully brings some humor to the horror of the story.

Perhaps most interesting, the director explained that he pushed really hard to use practical creature effects rather than CGI -- to which the Comic Con crowd responded with notable applause.

Universal Pictures' The Thing hits theaters on April 29, 2011.
They just can't stop f***ing up great films can they.
In my movie watching experience i have NEVER seen a prequel that lived up to the original film.
WORST IDEA EVER!!!
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 08:54:21 pm »

They just can't stop f***ing up great films can they.

No. They can't leave good films alone.  They got to go out and ruin them  Embarrassed
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