Prequel to 'The Thing'

[Aesop Rocks]

Mr. Eko!!!!

 

[chaseter]

Mr. Eko!!!!

Gonna go out on a limb and say he dies. He even dies in Ace Ventura 2.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Gonna go out on a limb and say he lives. He lives in G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra.

 

[chaseter]

He dies in LOST.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

He lives in G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra

 

[chaseter]

It is cinema knowledge that the black cast members die first.

 

[Bruce Banner]

It is cinema knowledge that the black cast members die first.

Well considering what happenes in Antartica against a shape shifting alien lifeform.

Black cast members will almost last the longest. Whether or not they are things is another story.

Or they walk down halls to investigate strange noises and are never seen again.

 

[Solidus]

Childs in The Thing survived until the end. But I figure everyone dies in this film except the two that escape on the helicopter that is at the beginning of The Thing.

But amazing pictures. Looks like The Thing as some one else put it. Here's hoping.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I like them, but I hope they're not trying to riff off the original too much. I'm afraid this will be some love letter ala Superman Returns to the original.

 

[Kurosawa]

Well it looks like it's MEW, Young Uncle Owen from Star Wars and those crazy Swedes Vs the Thing. We know they got owned but it'll be cool to see how it all went down.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Well it looks like it's MEW, Young Uncle Owen from Star Wars and those crazy Swedes Vs the Thing. We know they got owned but it'll be cool to see how it all went down.

"They're not swedish Mac they're Norwegian"-Dr. Copper

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[Punisher Rising]

The pictures show promise. Hope the movie isn't a letdown.

 

[Kurosawa]

"They're not swedish Mac they're Norwegian"-Dr. Copper

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[Crockett]

Can't wait to watch both films back to back and seeing those pieces fit together.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Mr. Eko's interview is up.

How does your character arrive at this situation? Presumably he’s not Norwegian, right?

Akinnuoye-Agbaje: Yeah, in the movie, I think I’m the only one without a hairy face, so I’m really proud of that. Me and Carter, who’s my buddy, we used to be in Nam together and after Nam, we couldn’t really fit into ordinary society, so we figured we’d go and try to make money at what we knew how to do best, which was fly choppers. And this was probably at that time the best bet, coming out to the Antarctic. We could make some dough here ferrying bods back and forth. So that’s kinda how I land on this piece of ice, ferrying people. We actually stationed out here and as you see in the movie, I’m always griping about like, “How ’bout California? I hear they’re dumping water on fires over there. Beaches. Bikinis. You know? I can get my suntan.” That’s kind of what brings us there. We’re just making a buck and this is where we can make it.

You mentioned the character was in Vietnam. Is that something you keep in mind as you’re performing, or is that just backstory you can take or leave?

Akinnuoye-Agbaje: Yeah, I came to the project late and they’d already obviously written it and the way it was written initially was Carter was a captain and he was giving orders, but when I came on the project they said, “Well, he’s 6′2″, that’s not gonna work. Know what I mean? So I was like, “How ’bout we be best friends…” and so Vietnam was the backstory. It’s hard, as you know, you get into a movie and you’ve never met somebody and then you’ve gotta pretend that you’re best friends and you need some glue. That was the glue. That was the fabric that we needed to kind of stitch us together. And we tried to see… because this is 1982 and Nam would have been ’70s and ’60s, why would a black guy from a certain part of America be best buddies with… It’s not the usual relationship, especially out in the Antarctic, so we tried to get behind and see what it was that would bond us, really, and have these two guys abandon society and go live on friggin’ ice pack and that was the common denominator, that we’d been at war. We’d both seen loss and we’d saved each other’s asses and had each other’s back and trusted each other. And you make those pledges like, “When I get out of here, I’m gonna blah blah blah…” It was was one of those. So…

People are protective of properties like that…

Akinnuoye-Agbaje: Cults, you don’t mess with them, man. You don’t mess with them. And I think if you do, it’s with a lot of respect. And I think that’s the movie. I think it will make people happy. It’s differently. There’s always gonna be some people griping, but I think on the whole, it’s gonna serve it. I think they were very smart making a prequel, because I think it gives us creative license to tell a story in your own way. But I think, still, fans are gonna love it. It’s very much in keeping with JC’s. And we have David Foster to guide us, the original producer. He was great. He had lots of tips. He was really great. He came on set. He was steering us.

& I like this answer:

We were just talking to the effects guys and they were saying it’s so much better for the actors to be able to actually see something instead of just a tennis ball at the end of a stick. With practical effects involved, does that make it better for you guys?

Akinnuoye-Agbaje: I’m squeamish, man. I was ****-scared. I’ll be straight-up with you. When you’re walking in as an actor and they’re carrying someone who’s arm falls off and you’ve got the arm and it’s built life-like, it’s really easy for you to act scared. That Thing is nasty. I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity to see it. It is horrible....I’m sure you saw the creature, the guy, it’s so lifelike. When you touch it, as well, it’s flesh-like as well. It’s really bloody scary, man.

Full interview: http://www.collider.com/2010/10/07/adewale-akinnuoye-agbaje-interview-the-thing-on-set-interview/

& Saturday...can't wait! D

 

[TheVileOne]

Movie is already horrendously miscast.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

This was at the NYCC:

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hmm... it comes out two days after my birthday.

 

[Octoberist]

They should just call it 'Thing'...that way..hehe..the sequel can have 'The'.

THE is the new '2'!!

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

The people over at FirstShowing just saw the teaser trailer at NYCC.

Teaser trailer for The Thing (prequel) looked pretty damn good. Really great editing and build up, I'm now very excited to see this.

Breakdown of the teaser from UGO.

Here's the breakdown:

It opens in New York (which from our set visit, we know will open the film). Eric Christian Olsen's Adam invites Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Kate to join him on a job to Antartica, something he believes will be a life-changing for the paleontologist, an "opportunity to do something big."

The film relocates to Antartica, where the Norwegians from the original Thing are about to crack open a block of ice that contains...someTHING. The trailer intercuts a drill slowly splitting the ice with shots of the cast (Joel Edgerton, Winstead, Olsen, Lost's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) looking terrified over...someTHING.

A title card: "In a place where there's nothing..." The trailer doesn't skimp on alien shots: tentacles, gaping mouths, the hatch to an alien spacecraft...and it looks practical, so wipe that sweat off your brow.

The end of that first title card? "...is...someTHING!" Short, but sweet.

 

[Solidus]

Hope that gets online soon.

 

[TheVileOne]

LOL, Eric Christian Olsen. Star of Dumb and Dumberer and FIRED UP.

 

[ttotheusher]

I dont know whether I'm just being a killjoy or not, but that set report hasnt really excited me in any way. We've seen it a hundred times. Set reports, photo's, trailers all look fantastic, and then the final product...less so. Who knows. Maybe this film might be the exception, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Dr Strange]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gKrWLeBYs

Bad Quality. But it's here.

 

[Solidus]

Can't wait to see it in High Def. I'm excited for this, hope it turns out great.