UPDATE: New Teaser Poster For The Thing Revealed!

UPDATE: New Teaser Poster For The Thing Revealed!

According to the report, this is the new teaser poster for Matthias van Heijningen's upcoming The Thing prequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton. Updated with official high quality version!

By WolvieCBM - Jul 11, 2011 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: AICN

"Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller THE THING, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish."




High quality version should arrive online soon.

UPDATE: Here is a high quality version:

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The Thing is set for October 14th release date!

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Dynamo
Dynamo - 7/11/2011, 3:36 PM
I forgot this movie was coming out! Surely they're not just going to call it "The Thing", since it's a prequel?
otusasio451
otusasio451 - 7/11/2011, 3:38 PM
Technically, the original was John Carpenter's The Thing, so yeah. I think it's just going to be "The Thing," even if it is a prequel.
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/11/2011, 3:46 PM
the original film was called "the thing from another world",the remake was john carpenter's the thing.

this is the prequel to john carpenter's the thing.

@ dynamo

same as i forgot about this film as well.
Dynamo
Dynamo - 7/11/2011, 3:48 PM
I suppose it could work. But that's like calling the new Superman movie just "Superman" since the Donner movie was techincally called "Superman: The Movie".
SageMode
SageMode - 7/11/2011, 3:48 PM
Why try to remake a classic like this? LOL. SMH...........
WolvieCBM
WolvieCBM - 7/11/2011, 3:51 PM
It's not a remake, it's a prequel.
McGribble
McGribble - 7/11/2011, 3:57 PM
So what name would you guys suggest? "The thing before the thing"?

If it where a sequal they could go the way of Alien 2 and call it "The Things"
nordberg
nordberg - 7/11/2011, 4:01 PM
How about:

Thing 2: Electric Boogaloo
Vital
Vital - 7/11/2011, 4:02 PM
Kinda looks fan-made to me, seems kinda blurry :|
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 7/11/2011, 4:05 PM
Well, I'm gonna go ahead and call it a re-quel until I'm shown different because I guarantee this will take more than a few beats from Carpenter's movie.
ShadesAtKnight
ShadesAtKnight - 7/11/2011, 4:05 PM
X-Men Origins: The Thing...
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/11/2011, 4:07 PM
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mary Elizabeth Winstead.............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
AsianVersionOfET
AsianVersionOfET - 7/11/2011, 4:09 PM
"The Thing: This time there's more things, that do things, with other things." There. You guys like that title? Good, grand, super, SWEET. Stop complaining now.
marcvader1
marcvader1 - 7/11/2011, 4:14 PM
The Thing Rising
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 7/11/2011, 4:22 PM
ShadesAtKnight@ kind of what I was thinking as well, though I would go with...

The Thing: First Class

That way it is okay to have confusion and no one has to commit to what it is. Is it a prequel? Is it a reboot? Is it a re-imagining? Is it a combination of everything so fans can be even more confused? :-P

Not much into prequels so this will be a pass for me.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 7/11/2011, 4:29 PM
well nothing can beat the original but i give this a change.

kevshardlemonade
kevshardlemonade - 7/11/2011, 4:37 PM
If its really not a remake (sure it isn't, hollywood) then why not at least call it "Thing" if they cant think of any other titles. If it's called the thing, then its a remake. I've never heard of a sequel/prequel that bears the same name as the original unless its a remake.
nuck82
nuck82 - 7/11/2011, 4:45 PM
does kurt russel come back and kill everything? that would be the only way its good
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 7/11/2011, 4:50 PM
I'm just amazed that Hollywood thinks we need a prequel to movies that were good. The fact that this prequel is being made shows that Hollywood needs to reevaluate what their industry is, do we REALLY need to see rehashes of old films, or remakes to all things that didn't need them, or those pointless SEQUELS to movies that don't warrant them. I loved both versions of the Thing, both were strong and well done for their respected time periods. From what I heard that this is supposedly the group of Norwegians interacting with the Thing before the US team....uhhhhh spoiler alert....THE DOG GETS INFECTED!!! so we are getting TCM: The beginning but with the THING. Enough Hollywood...just.....enough....smh
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 7/11/2011, 5:03 PM
The Thing is one of my favorite movies,I love the practical effects for the monster!
I hope this will be good
Mr3EyedMonkey
Mr3EyedMonkey - 7/11/2011, 5:11 PM
well no crap its not human
toad376
toad376 - 7/11/2011, 5:13 PM
It seems that poster is fake. If you look closely at the dude he has claws on his hands and that he may be a promo shot of Wolverine. Am I the only one who sees it?
andypblack
andypblack - 7/11/2011, 5:26 PM
I really am bummed that this is being re-made. The original is a classic.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 7/11/2011, 5:33 PM
toad376@ Or he might be The Thing?;)
CRleo1995
CRleo1995 - 7/11/2011, 5:36 PM
How come there is no trailer for this yet the movie was talked about like 9 months ago and then it just suddenly dissappeared
superpooper
superpooper - 7/11/2011, 5:52 PM
I'd rather have a prequel than a remake any day. The Thing was an awesome movie, and if there's more to the story then I can't wait to see it, especially with some updated effects. I'm so glad this isn't just a remake, although I'm not sure I would mind if it was. i could see how a re imagining of that story with updated effects could be good as well.
toad376
toad376 - 7/11/2011, 5:54 PM
Why is this still even up, its a fake.
quickdraw1021
quickdraw1021 - 7/11/2011, 6:04 PM
If this is half as good as Carpenters remake i will have to check it out.
poop23
poop23 - 7/11/2011, 6:10 PM
Hope I get to see the trailer soon, possibly with captain america
Betty
Betty - 7/11/2011, 6:29 PM
The Thing: The First The Thing
CRleo1995
CRleo1995 - 7/11/2011, 6:57 PM
How come there is no trailer for this yet the movie was talked about like 9 months ago and then it just suddenly dissappeared
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 7/11/2011, 7:46 PM
Do the damn Thing.
Vital
Vital - 7/11/2011, 8:22 PM
The Hi-Res version looks much better.

@toad, those are his fingers, not wolverine's claws, it just looks like that way to you cause one of the fingers does kinda look like one of the claw extentions.

It also resembles the cover of the old film too, which is pretty cool.
cherokeesam
cherokeesam - 7/11/2011, 8:25 PM
That looks absolutely NOTHING like Ben Grimm....FAIL
ScionStorm
ScionStorm - 7/11/2011, 8:34 PM
I think the low quality poster looks spookier.

@NeoBaggins: lol "The Damned Thing!" or even "That Damned Thing!" would be an interesting title. Might draw in more audiences.

. . . From the poster, I actually thought the movie was called "The Thing: It's Not Human. Yet."
headlopper
headlopper - 7/11/2011, 8:35 PM
Headlopper states the only 'Thing' movie we need is a version of the Marvel mini-series 'Freakshow' which came out a few years back.
Nuff' said.
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