The Thing - prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 movie

Quint · 15 Jul 2011 at 13:32

Trailers out!

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=31480

Jed Shields · 15 Jul 2011 at 13:35

Ooooooooooh...

Glaucus · 15 Jul 2011 at 14:52

Looks good, but then again, it's so easy to have a good trailer and pap film.

Mat · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:19

I realise it's a prequel but won't it be pretty much the same story but with different actors?

maun · 15 Jul 2011 at 16:46

Mat said:
I realise it's a prequel but won't it be pretty much the same story but with different actors?

Thats my concern, while we may find out abit more about the norwegians, we already knows what happens so were not going to be suprised.

Calabi · 15 Jul 2011 at 20:12

Looks like straight rip off to me, from that trailer. But then what else could they do?

Street · 15 Jul 2011 at 22:47

Awesome! I loved the first one. The Thing and Alien were probably the first scary films I ever saw and they scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!

Didn't even know they were making another one, can't see it being a patch on the original but I'll still watch it regardless!

Tombstone · 15 Jul 2011 at 22:57

Carpenters version is one of my all time favourites , and the theme is brilliant soundtrack. I suppose really this is the 3rd film , the first being the black and white one from the 50s.

Pighardia · 15 Jul 2011 at 23:30

I love the original (like very Carpenter film really). And i generlly don't mind it when my favourite films get remade really (i know this isn't a remake, but it kind of is really).

I will definitely go and see this.

wnb · 15 Jul 2011 at 23:50

That trailer just look like a remake.

CaptainRAVE · 15 Jul 2011 at 23:54

Hope it is as good as the original!

digipeep · 15 Jul 2011 at 23:55

Hope it doesn't turn out like the Clash of the Titans remake, the original was great, the remake was dreadful.

Somnambulist · 16 Jul 2011 at 00:28

As expected it looks like they're forgoing 'this is creepy/grotesque/wtf?!' for 'MADE YOU JUMP!' *big bad scary thing smashes stuff up and roars a lot*.

BigAndy87 · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:08

the 1982 version is one of my fav films hope its half decent, but i do like abit of Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Tombstone · 16 Jul 2011 at 14:16

I quite like the look of it from the trailer and its great to see that they have kept the same awesome soundtrack from the Carpenter film

Hedge · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:18

First is a phenomenal film. This looks like a remake. Only with the initial discovery.

Jed Shields · 16 Jul 2011 at 19:25

I'd love to see the original shown to the Saw generation of horror lovers. I'm sure they wouldn't sleep for a week.

ElvisFan · 16 Jul 2011 at 23:38

As a hater of modern CGI remakes I have to say that looks bloody AWESOME!!!!

At least we know the heroine get killed. The ones who get away at the end should be just minor characters because you can't invest in them knowing their fate at the start of the original.

Somnambulist · 17 Jul 2011 at 02:40

The only things we know are
a) nobody is left alive at the camp when the yanks find it
b) at least one Thing gets frazzled, to be discovered by the Americans and brought back to base (with lol consequences)
c) a husky-Thing escapes and is chased by Norwegian helicopter guy and sniper, one self-pwns and the other gets a bullet for his lack of English

Looking at the synopsis, this film has the Norwegian team as well as an American team who were never mentioned, as they're doing top-secret alien discovery stuff, therefore technically people could/can survive and escape... just not the Norwegians. Director talks about leading-lady being modelled on Ripley as well, and it seems they are trying to be faithful to the original, to the point of avoiding CG unless necessary, so hopefully they'll be some ridiculously gross Thing stuff, showing off the Thing in it's original form, and slapping an R rating on it.

Perhaps I'll give it a chance...

Somnambulist · 17 Jul 2011 at 03:07

Oh and read this, it's kinda cool
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/