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

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This prequel at the Norwegian outpost in Antarctica takes place 3 days before the events we see at the American outpost in the 82 movie starring Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley. We will see what happened to The Norwegian Scientists before the events in the opening of the 82 film where we see the Norwegians shooting from a helicopter at the sled dog running in the snow. The director wanted to use animatronic effects on the chamelion alien like in the 82 version to have as much realism to match the John Carpenter film with Kurt Russell. Again it is not a remake that many people are thinking because it bears the same name and again, this film takes place 3 days before the events with Kurt Russell at the American outpost making the Kurt Russel film the sequel to this new movie. Call it reverse engineering. Also, we will also see when the Norwegians scientist actually find the flying saucer buried in the ice and also when they excavate 'The Thing alien frozen in the ice block found outside the saucer. Like at the beginning of the 82 film, the Norwegians will speak actual Norwegian but with english subtitles on the screen and it should make the the movie more interesting for the fact the American scientist can't understand them when all hell breaks loose. The same music from the original film will be used too. Enjoy the trailers and who's going?

Plot:
Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago.

When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate joins the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing and imitating them one at a time, using its uncanny ability to mimic any life form it absorbs through digestion, and potentially reaching civilization.


For a flashback recap, here is the Trailer for 1982s John Carpenters 'The Thing'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg&feature=player_embedded

Now here is the new trailer of the prequel movie for the events in 1982 at the Norwegian Outpost hitting theaters Oct 14.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mg6tKVdMNdM

Movie Website:
http://www.thethingmovie.net/main.html

First TV spot that has been released yesterday. It looks better than the theatrical trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtLQRdMqbA
 
I've been intrigued about this movie since I first heard about it. My only concern after seeing the first trailer a few weeks ago is that it's going to be your standard, run of the mill, horror flick that just happens to be a prequel to the '82 version of "The Thing". Now, you can say that John Carpenter's version is your standard, run of the mill, horror flick and you wouldn't be wrong. It's just that there was something a little special about John Carpenter's movies that made them a cut above the rest. I'm not sure what that something is, if I knew I'd probably be a movie maker, but for some reason a lot of his movies have that something special.
 
I dunno. These guys are going to have to be really good to make this thing (no pun intended :D) work. It'll be tough generating any suspense over the discovery of the spaceship, since we already know what it is. Same with the inevitable "reveal" that the creature is still alive. The actual excavation of the ship doesn't seem like it would provide much in the way of gripping action. And, of course, we already know how the film ends.

Then again, maybe they're just aiming to make a scary monster movie/slasher flick. There's plenty of opportunity there! :D
 
Jonas Grumby said:
I dunno. These guys are going to have to be really good to make this thing (no pun intended :D) work. It'll be tough generating any suspense over the discovery of the spaceship, since we already know what it is. Same with the inevitable "reveal" that the creature is still alive. The actual excavation of the ship doesn't seem like it would provide much in the way of gripping action. And, of course, we already know how the film ends.

Then again, maybe they're just aiming to make a scary monster movie/slasher flick. There's plenty of opportunity there! :D
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I think the revealing of the creature will be interesting. The movie will enphasize on a sense of dread. It's kind of like the Titanic, we all knew the outcome and in this move we know the outcome but how did it happen since we saw the remains of the Norwegian outpost in the Kurt Russell movie destroyed, the man with both his wrists and throat slit frozen in a chair (how did that happen?), the bloody ax in the door, the body with multiple arms with the two heads (who were they) fusing together found burned outside the building that Kurt and Doc brought back to the American Outpost 31. Those questions I want answered and we will get those answers. By the way, have a look at this:

Major Spoiler. Don't watch if you would rather wait for the movie to come out.

Turn Volume up before watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7u5tqmbadc&feature=player_embedded
 
I agree that it has a difficult job overcoming knowing the ending, but the trailer, TV spot, and clip all looked pretty good to me. I'm looking forward to seeing this.
 
Locutus of Bored said:
I agree that it has a difficult job overcoming knowing the ending, but the trailer, TV spot, and clip all looked pretty good to me. I'm looking forward to seeing this.
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They just starting showing the TV spot advertisements for it multiple times during the Saints-Bears game on fox during the first half. Should get a big audience.
 
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i don't expect it to be anywhere near as good as Carpenter's film. that said, i am excited to see this. it looks pretty good so i'll give it a shot.
 
I rarely go to the Cinema nowadays except for absolute must-see films. I'll buy this one on Blu-ray if the reviews are very favourable, but its more probable that I'll rent it.
 
I'm intrigued to see it, but I don't see how it can really be a prequel unless it's set in 1982, which judging by the trailers it isn't. The trouble is it just looks too much like a stright remake rather than an actual prequel. I'm worried that it'll be too much cg as well, and again judging by the trailer the Thing seems to spend a lot of the time out in the open, obviously it was a lot less cunning 3 days before!
 
Starkers said:
I'm intrigued to see it, but I don't see how it can really be a prequel unless it's set in 1982, which judging by the trailers it isn't. The trouble is it just looks too much like a stright remake rather than an actual prequel. I'm worried that it'll be too much cg as well, and again judging by the trailer the Thing seems to spend a lot of the time out in the open, obviously it was a lot less cunning 3 days before!
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It is definitely set in 1982 and the director made sure it was 1982 nostagia and fashon added. He rebuilt the Norwegian outpost to the original specifications in the 82 movie all the way down to all the way objects were placed in each frame. I think The Thing when it breaks out of its ice cage is lost, confused and will attack anything it feels as a threat. By the time it arrives at the American outpost where Kurt Russell is 3 days later, it has become more aware of humans and how smart they are so it becomes more aware of how it will assimilate them in a more covert manner.
 
It looks like a very interesting, and good, movie so it'll certainly want to go see it. It's interesting to me how between this movie in the original that, apparently, a flame thrower is standard equipment for research stations in the antarctic.
 
Capt_David_Duke said:
Starkers said:
I'm intrigued to see it, but I don't see how it can really be a prequel unless it's set in 1982, which judging by the trailers it isn't. The trouble is it just looks too much like a stright remake rather than an actual prequel. I'm worried that it'll be too much cg as well, and again judging by the trailer the Thing seems to spend a lot of the time out in the open, obviously it was a lot less cunning 3 days before!
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It is definitely set in 1982 and the director made sure it was 1982 nostagia and fashon added. He rebuilt the Norwegian outpost to the original specifications in the 82 movie all the way down to all the way objects were placed in each frame. I think The Thing when it breaks out of its ice cage is lost, confused and will attack anything it feels as a threat. By the time it arrives at the American outpost where Kurt Russell is 3 days later, it has become more aware of humans and how smart they are so it becomes more aware of how it will assimilate them in a more covert manner.
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Well I stad corrected on the setting, but I still don't see the point of esserntially remaking the Thing again but as a 'supposed' prequel. I think I just have an inbuilt distates for prequels :) particularly ones that just look like a retread of the film they're prequelling!
 
I didn't realize this was a prequel. Now I really have to get my wife to watch the 82 film.
 
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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