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Here’s the first TV spot for the prequel to john Carpenter’s‘The Thing’, also called ...er... ‘The Thing’.
Whilst there remains the concern that the film may struggleto fit as neatly into the beginning of Carpenter’s movie as it would surelyneed to do (adding more weight to the ‘Prometheus’ approach of Damon Lindleoffand Sir Ridley Scott) we only have 4 weeks left to find out if this film willovercome the odds and be fit to lace the boots of Carpenter’s film or the earlierfilm of Novella ‘Who Goes There ‘The Thing from Another World.’
Synopsis...
“Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. Itis also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientificpossibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crewof international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentallyunleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into aperfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, butinside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like anepidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by amystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary ElizabethWinstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of herlifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across anextraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seemsto have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simpleexperiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew'spilot, 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 toucheswill pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thingserves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name.”
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