It’s here. The first official trailer for “The Thing” prequel is out and the movie opens in theaters on October 14, 2011.
I’m at least thankful that they didn’t try to just remake the 1982 John Carpenter’s “The Thing” movie (which in itself was a remake) but the more I watch this trailer the more it looks like the ’82 version which starred Kurt Russell.
If you remember from that awesome movie, Kurt Russell and his gang of Antarctica studs. including the scruffy yet loveable Wilford Brimley, discover a Norwegian camp ruined by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
The transformation is working!
“Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her two assistants Davida Morris (Davetta Sherwood) and Adam Goodman (Eric Christian Olsen) join a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate, Adam and Davida join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them and imitating them one at a time, using its ability to perfectly mimic any lifeform it absorbs through digestion, and eventually reaching civilization.”
