UNIVERSAL PICTURES ANNOUNCE OCTOBER RELEASE DATE FOR 'THE THING' PREQUEL

Universal Pictures have finally rectified a somewhat concerning situation regarding the upcoming Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. prequel 'The Thing'. The story that precedes the events of John Carpenter's 1982 original (also entitled 'The Thing' to help confuse issues further) had been completely removed recently from Universals' 2011 list of releases. However, panic averted, as they have announced that 'The Thing' will crawl into theatres stateside on it's rescheduled new date of 14 October 2011. The gorgeous brunette Mary Elizabeth Winstead (below), Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker ('Land of the Dead'), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ('Lost'), Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Eric Christian Olsen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju and Jo Adrian Haavind all star.

"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."

And once again, 'The Thing' will hit theatres across the US on 14 October 2011.

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