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She looked hotter with long hair. So, is this for the Sci-Fi Channel?

Who the fuck is Joel Edgerton?? All I can say is: why?

Hmm...not 100% sure about this, but wouldnt Elizabeth Winstead be "the first woman in the Antarctic" ? I thought it was in the mid eighties that the first women came to the Antarctic, but I could be wrong. There are no women in Carpenter's The Thing, only the computer is "female", voice of Adrienne Barbeau. An all male cast gave this fantasic film a special edge, I have low hopes for this prequel now. "The new The Thing wil be directed by comercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen from a screenplay by Ronald D. Moore and rewritten by Eric Heisserer. The plot of the thriller is described by the studio as follows: In a remote Antarctica outpost, an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath the ice. When a group of ambitious scientists decide to thaw out one of the creatures inside, they're in for the terrifying fight of their lives... The film's casting breakdowns have been leaked so there is plenty of information floating about as to the characters the two leads will play: Winstead plays Kate Lloyd, who is "pretty, bright-eyed, intelligent, she's a graduate of Columbia and a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology (the study of prehistoric life). On the recommendation of her friend Adam Goodman, Kate is tapped for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by Dr. Sander Halvorson to join his research team in Antarctica, where an extraordinary discovery has been made. Upon arrival, Kate soon finds herself at odds with Halvorson about how best to proceed with the discovery - an alien spaceship with a mysterious and sinister frozen THING found nearby - specifically whether to transfer the specimen undisturbed to a more appropriate facility for analysis, or, per Halvorson's wishes, to drill into the specimen's ice encasement for a definitive tissue sample." Edgerton will play Sam Carter, who is "in his early 30s, rugged, handsome, blue-collar, he's a helicopter pilot with a private charter service that transports personnel and supplies from McMurdo Station to remote research sites across Antarctica. Carter is a mercenary. He flies when he wants, where he wants, and he flies for one reason: money. But his resourcefulness, experience and get-it-done mentality make him indispensable." Winstead's character is forced to team with Carter in her attempt to stop the alien rampage. The third lead character of Dr. Sander Halvorson has yet to be cast. Shooting is sceduled to bgin in Toronto in mid-March" "Edgerton will play a mercenary loosely based on the Kurt Russell character from the 1982 movie."

It's great that things are really stepping up for Edgerton but I don't like the idea of this film.

I hope they have the good sense and patience to use practical effects and rely on CGI very little or not at all. A lot of the real genius in Carpenter's is from the writing/directing, though, so this movie is going to have to really nail it so seem valid at all. I can't help but feel like the Norwegian camp story only has one ending, so how surprised can we be? I wouldn't be surprised to see it ending with a thing man/dog walking up to Childs and MacReady as the US camp burns down. This seems like it'd work better as a sequel set in the mid to late 80s, where perhaps MacReady or Childs take on the role of the dog in the beginning of The Thing. #8- Head Spider was the most shocked I've ever been during a movie. The Thing is going to be an unbelievably hard film to top, or even come close.