Prequel to 'The Thing'

[Sawyer]

So, is Ron Moore's script still being used? Because Ron Moore's the ****ing man.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

His name is listed as one of the people who did the screenplay so probably. If something's been changed, I didn't know about it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/

 

[Aesop Rocks]

SMLVR28 is awesome.

 

[Solidus]

Nice designs. And yea Ron Moore is awesome so here is hoping with this film.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

SMLVR28 is awesome.

Thank yew.

& Carpenter had no input on the prequel apparently.

TB: When The Thing prequel was announced there was a lot of speculation about whether it was a remake or a reboot or a prequel and a lot of people were really up in arms that it was happening it all because your film is pretty much considered gospel. Were you at all involved in that process, when people were deciding whether they should do it and what it should look like?

JC: No, no one asked me anything. Universal owns the movie and I was just a hired gun on that film. And it’s odd to hear you say it’s gospel because that movie was hated when it came out, mainly by the fans. It was amazing. So it’s surprising for me to hear you say that people have any kind of care for it because it sure wasn’t cared for when it first came out.

http://tinyurl.com/253ewux

 

[DarkKnight88]

Heh, see. Remakes were hated in the 80's too.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

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Someone mentioned that the blonde figurine might be Kim Bubbs (Juliette)'s character.

Excitement!

Nice!

 

[Man in the Suit]

Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

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Someone mentioned that the blonde figurine might be Kim Bubbs (Juliette)'s character.

Excitement!

Sweet.

 

[Kurosawa]

Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

[YT]-538oVwhV5E[/YT]

Someone mentioned that the blonde figurine might be Kim Bubbs (Juliette)'s character.

Excitement!

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Talk to the hand!"

 

[Doctor Jones]

I like those designs alot. And the music was cool. Was that to the Carptentor film? Very eerie. Using that music would be a great way to open the film. Just think of a sweeping opening shot over the snowy landscape with that music in the background.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "talk to the hand!"

ziiiiiiiing!

 

[Doctor Jones]

So when is the trailer coming out for this thing?

 

[Solidus]

It comes out in late April right? I would say in October or November we may get a trailer.

I hope it uses the music from JC's The Thing.

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[Solidus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tn1Y-ERCE

There that's better than my humming.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

I like those designs alot. And the music was cool. Was that to the Carptentor film? Very eerie. Using that music would be a great way to open the film. Just think of a sweeping opening shot over the snowy landscape with that music in the background.

Yeah. Someone said the score is called "Shape"

So when is the trailer coming out for this thing?

Hopefully the trailer will be released next month during NY Comic Con. That'd be totally awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tn1Y-ERCE

There that's better than my humming.

Hahaha. I love that song. Always creeped me out whenever it was played throughout the film because I knew something was gonna happen.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

It's about time!

First footage from 'The Thing' prequel is going to debuting October 9th at NYCC.

From 1:30-2:00 pm on October 9th, Universal presents the cast and filmmakers from its upcoming thriller The Thing. In the film that serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 thriller of the same name, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/40097/first-footage-thing-debut-new-york-comic-con

I wish I could go!

 

[Spideyfan93]

I'm going there Sunday the 10th...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! At least I get to see M Night...

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Very small, but you can see that the November issue of Empire is going to have stuff about the new 'Thing' film:

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'm actually more interested in the fact that that's Thor on the cover actually.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Here we go guys...the anticipation(for what I think will be a summer to remember) for SUMMER 2011 IS IN FULL GEAR, pedal to the metal!

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Oh my god!!

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Joblo.com's set visit report: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=34134

Collider's set visit report:

The first thing I saw as we approached was that they were filming a massive helicopter without the blades on top. They told us the almost life-size chopper was brought in on a crane.

Next to the chopper was a dead body for practical special effects work. The body’s head appeared to be lifelike (it was freaky) and the bottom had about 20 wires coming out of it and they were attached to four controller decks so people could animated the body for the scene. I don’t know what happens in the film to this body, I just know it’s going to look awesome when they pretend to kill whoever this was.

Also, something I thought was awesome was director Matthijs van Heijningen telling us he was shooting The Thing with anamorphic widescreen lenses and trying to shoot as much practically as possible. Of course CGI is going to be used (as it should be to amplify the scenes), but it is always great to hear the word “practical” on any movie set

http://www.collider.com/2010/10/04/the-thing-movie-images-set-visit-prequel/

Collider's interview with Joel Edgerton: http://www.collider.com/2010/10/04/joel-edgerton-interview-the-thing-on-set-interview/

Collider's interview with the director: http://www.collider.com/2010/10/04/director-matthijs-van-heijningen-on-set-interview-the-thing/

And Mary's interview: http://www.collider.com/2010/10/04/mary-elizabeth-winstead-interview-the-thing-on-set-interview/

 

[Carnotaur3]

Yay, stills! I am pleased. It looks like a Thing movie to me.

 

[Crockett]

Whoa, that's some great finds SMLuvr28, the first images looks great and it's going to be interesting to see the prequel and how it's compare to the original.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Wow, awesome pictures!