If you didn’t know, a prequel to John Carpenter‘s superb 1980’s horror movie THE THING is currently in production and a ton of set visit reports have popped up on the Internet today. Along with these reports came a batch of official images from the movie, which is directed by Mattthijs Van Heijninger. From what I can see, the film does not have an official title as yet, as it’s only being referred to as THE THING PREQUEL. Take a look at the first images in the gallery below.
Along with the pics came a fairly detailed synopsis for the film. Excited? Yes? If you are unfamiliar with the first film, which starred Kurt Russell, we URGE you to go find it and watch it at your nearest possible opportunity! One of the best horror flicks ever made…
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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