It appears we will all have to wait a bit longer to see the prequel to
John Carpenter's sci-fi and horror classic,
The Thing. According to the
LA Times, Universal Pictures did not feel that director
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s prequel was ready to go and pulled it from its April 2011 release date, moving
Fast Five up from its June 2011 release to fill the slot. No new release date for
The Thing has been set at this time.
The Thing prequel was written by
Eric Heisserer and
Ronald D. Moore.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and
Joel Edgerton lead a cast that includes
Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Eric Christian Olsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju, and
Jo Adrian Haavind.
Official synopsis:
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.
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