Universal Pictures has set a release date of April 29th 2011 for the the upcoming prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, also titled The Thing. Here's the studio's description of the film, which will only be informative for those unfamiliar with the original.
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
I'm willing to give The Thing a chance, but I must admit, at the moment my expectations are pretty low. I fear it will be an artless splatterfest, as opposed to the original which could be described as an artFUL splatterfest.
Are you looking forward to The Thing? Also, with the release of Scream 4 also scheduled for April 2011, could that month be a renaissance for Horror cinema, or are you as skeptical about both projects as I am?
source-http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67054
December 17, 2008, 11:04:56 PM
