Matthijs van Heijningen Says The Thing Prequel is Close to John Carpenter's Classic!

@Nail...thats exactly what happens in the movie. This is like Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, theres no suspense, you know they get away with it

Here's what I think will become of this movie...



Love Mary though ;)

Am I not getting this?
First of all, it's not orange. Secondly, it doesn't have a rock exoskeleton and thirdly...were's Johnny?

@nail no need to make it "clearer", nor was I questioning your love for the film. Carpenter showed no one survived when the destroyed Norwegian camp with their dead was investigated by the Americans. Now if this new film shows a survivor or two, then that is a new plot element added that was not present in Kurt Russel's version. But that would take away from Carpenter's because the ending of his film made it clear they were the last two survivors and could be infected.

@headlopper one of the symptoms of infection is the pizza beer dunk. The Thing has no concept of human eating and techniques hence the failure of proper pizza-to-beer consumption.

Seriously what do you think she's going to say? It's not, obviously she's going to say it is. She wants more people to see it

@Coloso- Ha! I knew it!
Oh sh**, there looking at me!

Nail has a point, we saw...

A dog.
2 men speaking Norwegian chasing said dog in helicopter, very clumsy man.
A few burnt bodies outside the camp (could have been anybody or more Things from a pen of dogs trying to change).
And a man who supposedly committed suicide (could be a plot twist in this prequel).
That the research done was in Norwegian.
And we saw the space ship and the empty space of where (presumptively) the Nor. people cut out the alien frozen in ice.

So we have literally no answers to the majority of what went down other from than they find the ship (from the trailer). We also saw the block of ice in the trailer, that explodes when the Thing wakes up. But the rest of it, is a mystery, sure, there will be a lot of death, but we don't know if somebody else at the end of the movie goes another route, let's say there are more than one "things" at the end, and one of the "things" (as the dog) goes a different direction because it's being chased by humans/survivors.

Hell, I think it'd be a cool twist if the people in the helicopter thought the dog was a "thing" but at the time of the chase scene, it wasn't. Right now you're like 'but we saw it take out the other dogs so clearly it was an alien'. Well, what IF one of the "survivors" from the Norw. camp made it to the American camp during the night, and turned somebody (whoever was in that room when the dog walked into it but you could only see a shadow on the wall). It's kinda far-fetched and doesn't add up as well as the dog originally being the infected alien, but I think it'd be a huge twist to the ending, if the dog wasn't one, and they showed that entire opening scene again, near the end of the film, but with clearly more information this time around. What do you think?

What I have seen looks pretty good so far. It makes sense to tell this story. We know very little about the ship the Norwegians found, almost nothing about their struggle with the creature, or how it came down to two men in a helicopter chasing the creature (in the form of a dog) across the ice.

You know the could have brought Kurt Russell onboard for this one. Yeah but instead of him playing MacReady he could reprise his role of Snake Plissken and they title would have been "Escape from The Thing". :P

I'll watch this movie regardless because of my undying love for Carpenter's The Thing. It's in my top three favorite horror movies of all time. I don't expect this to come anywhere close to it's predecessors level of epic, but I hope they at least give it the good ol' college try. P.S. More Kurt Russell makes anything better.

OK whats that dudes name again?

#1. This is NOT a remake.
#2. If it follows the first script, there WILL BE PEOPLE SPEAKING NORWEGIAN, as it adds to the tension between the Americans at the camp and the Norwegians.
#3.@Ceejay, you continue to prove yourself a closed-minded idiot. Quit talking out of your ass.

Good Day to you all.