The first trailer for Universal’s THE THING prequel has arrived; you can watch it below. It looks exactly like what I was expecting it to look like – which isn’t really a knock against it, per se, but can’t be considered high praise either. There are certainly a few encouraging moments, but I hate to say that I’m not really sold on Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the lead. The film will tell the full tale in October. (I do appreciate that the music echoes Ennio Morricone’s score for John Carpenter’s version toward the end, I’ll say that much.)
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.
Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, THE THING hits theaters on OCTOBER 14th. If you want to read my set visit article on the flick, click right HERE.
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The Thing concept art by John Gallagher