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Anyone Going To See John Carpenters 'The Thing' Prequel Oct 14th?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in it. So yes.


And its The Thing. Ron D Moore. Yes, yes



Although I've just read on IMDb its out on October 14th in the US, but not out till December 2nd in the UK. Fan fucking tastic Universal, you fucking fuckwits.

I don't mind too much when it's one or maybe two weeks later, like with Captain America, but 7 weeks? Taking the piss.
Yeah, and you wonder why you have to keep putting all those anti-piracy messages at the start of your DVDs? hmmmm :rolleyes:
 
I'll probably give it a shot. I've read the novella and own both Carpenters and Hawks' version on DVD.

I still wish they had allowed Carpenter to do his sequel.
 
Christopher said:
Mr. Adventure said:
Alternate titles?

The Thing Begins?
The Thing Rises? heh
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What's interesting to me is that there are now three films based on the same John W. Campbell story that are generally called The Thing, but in fact they have three different titles. The Howard Hawks film from the '50s was called The Thing From Another World, the '80s movie was officially titled John Carpenter's The Thing, and this prequel is the first one whose complete title actually is just The Thing.


Of course, what they should do next is make a crossover with The Fantastic Four and The Addams Family, and call it One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.
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Carpenter's version was the quintessential, faithful adaptation of John Campbell's novel and did Campbell proud. The video game was a sequel to the Carpenter movie was called The Thing and this prequel called The Thing, it's an unofficial trilogy sort of speak.
 
As a part of it's Month of Horrors, my local Rave Theater is playing John Carpenter's The Thing on the bog screen on the 13th. Maybe I'll just hang around for the midnight premier of the prequel afterwards.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
Alternate titles?

The Thing Begins?
The Thing Rises? heh
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The Thing Arrives.

I probably won't see this in theaters, but I'll probably check it out when it hits Blu-ray. Hopefully it'll be good.

I think it could be interesting to see a sequel to the original movie, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen should this film succeed. I've never played the game that came out several years back, but I doubt they'd use much (if any) of it in a potential film sequel.
 
I'm waiting for the reviews. The trailers have made this look like a note for note remake of the Carpenter movie, which doesn't interest me.
 
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