In a place where there was nothing, they found something.
The tagline for the upcoming prequel to John Carpenter's "The Thing" delivers exactly what it promises.
At New York's Comic Con on Saturday, the director of the 2011 film of the same name said he would reveal the eponymous three-decades-old shape-shifting alien in its pure form -- something that the 1982 film failed to do.
"We made no attempt to remake 'The Thing,'" Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. told the audience during a "The Thing" panel, adding that the prequel is set three days before Carpenter’s McReady (Kurt Russell) sets foot on the Antarctic base to find a creature that morphs into its various kills.
Though the cast of van Heijningen Jr.'s film remains largely American -- with Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim vs. The World") and Eric Christian Olsen starring ("Community") -- Norwegian actors have filled out the cast to hark back to Carpenter's story.
Olsen plays scientist Adam Goodman -- the actor quipped that it was "a bit of a stretch" -- while Winstead plays his girlfriend and the Ripley-like heroine of the film, according to Heinjnigen Jr.
Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen rounds out the main cast as Dr. Sander Halvorson, the scientist and source of all the trouble who decides to drill into the ice and unleash the monster.
Producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman said they shot the film in Toronto, though the crew returned to the original site of John Carpenter's film, northern B.C., to shoot the icy exterior scenes.
Van Heijningen Jr. said the film paid homage to Carpenter's movie by reconstructing the camp to the smallest detail.
Sure enough, a sneak peek of the film revealed a virtually identical set to the original, not to mention its familiar theme tune.
Carpenter based "The Thing" on Don A. Stuart's short story "Who Goes There," though its first big screen adaptation was produced by Howard Hawks in 1952 ("The Thing from Another World").
"The Thing" is set for release in spring 2011.
The tagline for the upcoming prequel to John Carpenter's "The Thing" delivers exactly what it promises.
At New York's Comic Con on Saturday, the director of the 2011 film of the same name said he would reveal the eponymous three-decades-old shape-shifting alien in its pure form -- something that the 1982 film failed to do.
"We made no attempt to remake 'The Thing,'" Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. told the audience during a "The Thing" panel, adding that the prequel is set three days before Carpenter’s McReady (Kurt Russell) sets foot on the Antarctic base to find a creature that morphs into its various kills.
Though the cast of van Heijningen Jr.'s film remains largely American -- with Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim vs. The World") and Eric Christian Olsen starring ("Community") -- Norwegian actors have filled out the cast to hark back to Carpenter's story.
Olsen plays scientist Adam Goodman -- the actor quipped that it was "a bit of a stretch" -- while Winstead plays his girlfriend and the Ripley-like heroine of the film, according to Heinjnigen Jr.
Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen rounds out the main cast as Dr. Sander Halvorson, the scientist and source of all the trouble who decides to drill into the ice and unleash the monster.
Producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman said they shot the film in Toronto, though the crew returned to the original site of John Carpenter's film, northern B.C., to shoot the icy exterior scenes.
Van Heijningen Jr. said the film paid homage to Carpenter's movie by reconstructing the camp to the smallest detail.
Sure enough, a sneak peek of the film revealed a virtually identical set to the original, not to mention its familiar theme tune.
Carpenter based "The Thing" on Don A. Stuart's short story "Who Goes There," though its first big screen adaptation was produced by Howard Hawks in 1952 ("The Thing from Another World").
"The Thing" is set for release in spring 2011.
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