A prequel with the same name as the film its prequelizing may not be the brightest marketing idea we’ve ever seen but even what we get to see in the new trailer still reeks reboot more so than predecessor. The new trailer for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s ‘The Thing’ has arrived and you can check it out below. With nods all over the place to John Carpenter’s horror sci-fi 80’s remake, including music, the new trailer gives us Antarctic chills and spills and a good look at the main players involved in the project. ‘The Thing’ stars the gorgeous Mary Elizabeth Winstead – below (‘Death Proof’, ‘Scott Pilgrim vs The World’), Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker (‘Land of the Dead’), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (‘Lost’), Eric Christian Olsen (‘Dumb and Dumberer’) and Ulrich Thomsen (‘Season of the Witch’).
“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.”
‘The Thing’ opens in theatres everywhere on 14 October.
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