The Thing Trailer Awakens

At long last, the first look at the prequel to John Carpenter’s Barf-O-Rama masterpiece is here! Expectations are high and those crazy Swedes have their work cut out for them, but after viewing the trailer below, I am officially pumped. Although nobody can replace Carpenter as director, the resulting footage certainly seems to be cut from the same shredded bloody cloth.
That, coupled with the assertion that extensive practical fx are being used and CG kept to a minimum leads us to believe that director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. is certainly headed in the right direction.
According to Wikipedia’s synopsis: “Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her two assistants Davida Morris (Davetta Sherwood) and Adam Goodman (Eric Christian Olsen) join a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate, Adam and Davida join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them and imitating them one at a time, using its ability to perfectly mimic any lifeform it absorbs through digestion, and eventually reaching civilization.”