THE THING
Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Joel Edgerton Star In "THE THING" Remake
Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("FINAL DESTINATION 3") and Joel Edgerton ("STAR WARS: EPISODE II", "STAR WARS: EPISODE III") are tipped to be the lead stars of Universal's upcoming prequel/remake of "THE THING" reports Heat Vision.The project marks the third adaptation of a 1938 short story. Howard Hawks directed the first version, 1951's "The Thing From Another World", but the most well-known is the John Carpenter-directed 1982 horror feature "THE THING" starring Kurt Russell.
This incarnation appears to essentially serve as a prequel of sorts to Carpenter's film. Winstead will play an American student working on her Ph.D. at a Norwegian research facility in Antarctica. The scientists onboard discover an alien ship frozen in the ice and unwittingly release a deadly shape-shifting organism that picks them off.
Edgerton plays a mercenary helicopter pilot whom the student enlists to help stop the creature from escaping to the outside world where it would multiply and destroy all life on Earth.
Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer penned the script which Matthijs Van Heijningen is directing. Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing.
Filming kicks off March 15th in Toronto.
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
US Release : 2011-10-14
Source : darkhorizons.com / filmsactu.com
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