Last week when Jared Pacheco broke the news about Universal’s plans to move THE THING prequel into TBA waters, the world took that as a sign of impending doom. That was it folks, THE THING prequel was going to bomb before it even had a chance to float. Speculation over the decision ranged from Universal’s doubts in the prequel to a schism between the creative eyes behind the camera.
Luckily we have Hitfix to straighten the mystery behind it all. By contacting producer Marc Abraham over the delay, Hitfix was able to round up a few deets that will put some fears to rest once again. Here’s a snippet of what they report:
Everything he said confirmed what we’d already heard, that the filmmakers have a cut of the movie and that they are now hoping to use this next round of photography to enhance existing sequences or to make crystal clear a few story beats or to add punctuation marks to the film’s feeling of dread.
How about that eh? Whether or not this shows promise to you is your own decision but the fact that these are extended photography shoots and not just re-shoots can go both ways. In other words: the film is still a go. Footage has been shot and it sounds like all that is needed is some extended shooting and we’ll have ourselves A THING prequel in no time. This may be my two cents but you can count on some news regarding the new release date relatively soon. Stick with us as we bring you more updates on THE THING.
The holy 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.”
Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. is directing from a screenplay by Eric Heisserer and Ronald D. Moore. The cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Eric Christian Olsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju, and Jo Adrian Haavind.
Pure hotness. Marry Elizabeth Winstead