Source: MTV | Posted By: Dan Geer
Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.‘s The Thing, a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same title, is a movie I have been looking forward to for quite a while. Carpenter’s film was just such a fresh contribution to the sci-fi/horror genre (despite it being a remake of a classic), and so my excitement for the prequel is at an all-time high right now since we’re only a little over a month away from its theatrical debut.
The first trailer finally made its debut this past July, and now the first video clip has popped up online over at MTV, featuring two characters from the film (played by Joel Edgerton and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and a crazy encounter with the “Thing.” Check it out after the jump!
Official Plot Synopsis:
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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To be frank, when seeing this out of context, I’m not quite sure this makes sense. If the Thing was frozen in the ice, how is it able to break out so easily? Perhaps it was intentionally waiting in the ice all this time for prey? It is an alien, after all, so who knows? The original 1950s film, The Thing from Another World, simply had the ice thaw out and the Thing escape, so this is definitely a drastic turn in how it gets loose in the first place. I guess we’ll have to see how this actually plays out in the final film…
The Thing (2011), directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs, Trond Espen Seim, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jonathan Walker, Carsten Bjørnlund, Davetta Sherwood, Jørgen Langhelle, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju, Jo Adrian Haavind and Maria De Nancuva. The prequel hits theaters October 14th.
