Source: IGN | Posted By: Dan Geer
Now this is what I’m talkin’ about! This latest Red Band trailer for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing not only clarifies that the film indeed deals with the Norwegian camp shown at the beginning of John Carpenter‘s 1982 film of the same name, but it also displays a lot of quick, yet terrifying cuts of a few scenes from the prequel – featuring killings, alien shapeshifting, and other various creep-out moments. It’s one of those great trailers that moves very quickly at just over a minute long, showing just enough to get you pumped for the film, while at the same time not giving too much away. Sure, this is a prequel, so we do know the ending. But, we have yet to get to know the characters and experience how it all went down. Check out the new trailer below!
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.
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.
