The Thing prequel gets an official site, cool new images

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Universal has opened the official website for THE THING, and although it offers most of the usual stuff, there’s also some pretty cool imagery, some of which you can see here. I believe a few of these have been available for a while, but they’re still worth a look in wallpaper form. I dig the new logo, which gives you a person in the middle of what looks to be an uncomfortable transformation. Check out the site HERE if you want to download any of these for yourself.

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.

In addition to the wallpapers, the site offers the usual stuff, however, when you transition from page to page, there are some interesting pieces of footage that I believe are new. Blink and you’ll miss them, though.

THE THING, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen and Eric Christian Olsen, opens on OCTOBER 14th.