The following is from this month's Make-Up Artist magazine Linda Dowds - Head of the Make-up Department - "We had a lot of men and just two women, including Mary, our leading lady. Alot of those men also had a European sensibility to them, so we knew we were going to be dealing with a lot of facial har...we wanted them to be individuals, but there still had to be stuff going on that indicated that they were at this station, so we went through the characters and tried to mix up the facial hair a little bit so not everybody had a beard but everybody had some meausre of facial hair. We had to create a little chart to keep track of everybody."
"With our women, Mary is an attractive girl and there was nothing to say that she couldn't look like that, but a little could go a long way. We didn't want to glam her up, so she agreed to have a no-make-up look about her. She got dirty and sweaty and stressed-looking, so we tracked all of that, not only for her but for everybody to see where they were at in the story. When would they look the freshest? When were they under the most stress? There were different stages for all of that under the most stress? There were different stages for all of that."
"And finally, we were shooting exteriors as interiors, so we wanted to rough up the skin and bring some rosiness to it and break up textures so that it reflected the fact that these people were in a cold climate. So it was all about when to do those things and when not to in the most realistic way."
Very excited for this film. To think, decades later after the Kurt Russell version that they would not make a remake or a reboot of the John Carpenter classic, but to go and create a prequel is brave. It's also brave to have your leading lady running around with no make-up.
From what I've read above and from what I''ve read previously, this movie seems to be in very good hands. Hands that want to take very good care of two films, this prequel, and the 1982 film. Mixing the new technology with the limitations of the 1980's setting is wonderful. Having that boundary of what you can and cannot show I think will make the film so much more enjoyable.
The prequel is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen jr. The cast includes
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Jonathan Walker, Eric Christian Olsen, Jo Adrian Haavind, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise and Kristofer Hivju.
The Thing will be in theaters on 10/14/2011.
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