By now you already know more about the upcoming “The Thing” sequel (or prequel, actually) then you may have wanted to know, but you may be wondering about who will be fronting the film. Kurt Russell is certainly nowhere to be found, but in his stead you’ll get Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton as the film’s two young leads.
THR reports that Winstead will play the film’s female lead, an American PHD braniac (named Kate Lloyd) who joins a Norwegian expedition in Antarctica after they locate the alien ship trapped in ice. Edgerton is the blue-collar helicopter pilot (named Sam Carter) who helps out our cute as a button research genius when the alien gets free and starts offing Norwegians.
If you saw “Final Destination 3″ you probably realized that Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been headed toward fame for a while now. She was Bruce Willis’s daughter in “Live Free or Die Hard”, and she’s got the female lead in Edgar Wright’s upcoming “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”. And did I mention that she’s cute as a button? See pic below. Joel Edgerton (top left), meanwhile, is the latest Aussie to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood.
Matthijs Van Heijningen is directing the sequel from a script by Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer. Production commences March 15, 2010 in Toronto.
Can't blame the Thing for chasing her...
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lame, i was looking forward to this, but i guess they just cant resist injecting sex appeal in there. oh well
Looks like another dumbed down movie aimed at teenagers. A young hot woman in the lead role, the 2 main other characters young males….
Yeah right, so believable. I mean, after all, research personnel in the Arctic are all 20 years old right?!
I think I’ll watch the original again instead.
I must have this weird 6th sense thing going on. The Thing has been one of my all time favourite films for over 20 years now. I had heard rumors online about a supposed remake, sequel or prequel a few years back and just decided again today to look into what was happening with all that. Today is March 16 2010, and according to the article it says they started production on the new film yesterday.
I’m still opposed to the idea of this though. The late 70’s and early 80’s was the time for films like this. The film quality, effects, directing styles… everything was just right. Most movies have their place in time that gives them that perfect blend of everything to make them classics. You can’t try to recapture that magic some 30 years later and expect the same results.