cool...i like the thing...hope this is good

i have never seen the thing, i have always wanted to but never came around to it

Tyler: see it asap. i'm surprisingly ok with this prequel... would love to see it happen with a real budget.

That can't be the plot for the prequel can it?

The original was freakin amazing with what little budget they had. The effects were really...WOW! And I don't think they can make it any better with CG.

Your right BD,that plot does NOT sound like a prequel, but a remake. If memory serves me right, it's been awhile since I seen The Thing, but does it not start out with these guys chasing and shooting at a dog that takes refuge with Kurt Russell and the other researchers? Then all hell breaks loose when the dog mutates in the cage with the other dogs ? What prequel are they talking about ??

That doesn't even make sense. It says its from the norweigen perspective but then it goes on to say exactly what happens to the american team... It sounds as if they got mixed up to me.

I'm all for this prequel/remake just so I can have a laugh at how awful it will be compared to The Thing.

25$ worth of tacos says they are going to over-do the CG effects and make 'it' look ridiculous, in a very bad way.

This never really figured to be a prequel anyway. John Carpenter's THE THING was made over a quarter century ago, and was not a commercial success. Though it is now (very deservedly) considered a modern classic of sci-fi/horror, and one of the best remakes ever, it wasn't until it had been on video for many years that anyone outside of genre fandom gave it that kind of love. The idea that a major studio would release a prequel to a property like that when they could simply do a remake doesn't make a lot of business sense. THE THING rocks, but no accountant in his right mind would want to directly tie a multimillion dollar production to a 2+ decade old commercial flop.

Yawn. Enough already.

so this is a remake of a remake that is already a classic. Why remake a classic?! Why can't they just remake film that didn't work? they coulda adapted the video game into a film, at least we would have a sequel and not a remake

It does sound like a cut and paste of the script to the 80's remake. It would have been better if the prequel dealt with where this alien life form first started whether it's a true alien or some man made biological stuff from one.

Seems like AFTER "the prequel takes place from the Norwegian camps point of view" it becomes the original. Probably just a summary synopsis of the first film, right? I had always hoped - since you know theyre going to CGI this film into the ground - that it would be projected into the future - like that prognosis Blair was looking at - if it reached civilization, entire human race wiped out... that would be sick to see - if it hit a city etc... trying to survive through it... but if it goes the Norwegian route - wouldnt be so bad - could reintroduce it as a new encounter, get the whole trust/mystery thing going again. Just - if it IS from the Norwegian POV - would be interesting to see the American camp approached at the end of the film - but since that was the last of the Norwegians, would seem to be a pretty unclimactic ending to a film.... And to anyone who has not seen THE THING: for godsakes, watch the best horror remake ever made already...

100% agree with Midnight Crow - you hit the nail on the head. Let me get a couple of tacos when you score. They give AWESOME gas.

I also see this with big explosions, tons of tentacles coming from the floors, snows, dogs, people and scene-chewing one-liners. I'm sure the reps were explaining this as "Tremors" meets "Predator". Leave this classic alone!

They must mean prequel/remake... Like a Rob Zombie prequel/remake.... If thats all that is going on I would rather this film not be made. Didn't they see how well the new Halloween was recieved by critics? Yeah.....please no...Don't screw up a classic!

just makes sense if John Carpenter direct it

I was fortunate enough to have watched John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) a couple of weeks ago. I had it in storage for so long yet i was so interested in seeing what it had to offer, one day i finally just said, "I gotta watch it." I grabbed the DVD, popped it in the player, and for an hour and 50 minutes, i was delightfully entertained. Granted this film kinda got me freaked out at autopsies, it's a small price to pay to see sheer excellence and brilliance. This set of news makes me think more of "remake" rather than "prequel" since if it was a "prequel", the Norwegian team would be the focus all throughout the movie, but since they also mentioned the American team more, it definitely has me thinking "remake". Either way, i'm stoked about it, and i REALLY wanna see if i can get the 1951 film for viewage.

They have to use practical effects, If its all CGI it'll be The Mist in the Arctic.

Freeze Drop the crappy CG, leave the rubbery decapitated head and mutated dog alone!!!!

If Strike is involved, i'd bet my ass good things are headed our way.

lol, what a joke

That sounds like a VERY familiar PREQUEL. Maybe all of these SCOOPS should be held until something more concrete is proven, ehhh?

What the fuck is that??? That is not a prequel. That's John Carpenter's The Thing. I think they are just trying to sell us a piece of shit pretending it's a prequel.

Jonny Horror ..... they are saying we get to see it from there perspective. and lead up to WHY they where chasing the dog. we never got to know what really happened with them and what was going on. just that all hell broke lose after they showed up

We know WHY they are chasing the do. It's obvious, isn't it? What happens to the American team happens first to the Norwegian team, but we never see it happening to the Norwegian team(happens before the scene where the Norwegian survivors are hunting down the dog). THEN it happens to the Americans. A prequel, of it happening to the Norwegians(and I mean the actual discovery of the Alien life form, then THEIR team disappearing one by one), would be far better than yet ANOTHER damned remake.

only have one thing to say, please don't let them fuck this up!

If the prosthetics, monsters, and make up effects in this movie dont live up to par with the 1982 version. Then we can truly accept that hollywood has failed us.

I love the thing and yes , this does sound like a re-makee

i think it would be AMAZINGLY awesome if the movie is about the Norwegians camp being attacked by the alien, which is then transmitted through the dog and it ends where John Carpenter's The Thing starts when the Norwegians try to kill the dog and end up getting killed

I thought they already remade this movie.. and called it The Faculty. After Jason X you bet your ass I'm excited for the remake as opposed to Friday the 13th part 11: Jason takes Earth 2. After so many sequels someones run the franchise into the ground and you have no option to reboot it. Or after having Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks in Halloween Resurrection. Yes I'll take Sherri Moon Zombie as stripper and Malcolm McDowell as Loomis after that mess. If that's how I'm going to have to see Michael and Jason taken serious again then fine. Bring it on. As long as my main man's in there killing people in brutal ways I'm probably gonna be happy. But this. There's no point. Really. You can do the prequel like Nemisis37 says there. But otherwise there's no damn point. It was done perfectly by Carpenter here (as was Halloween though).. I just really can't see why you would want to even do this. They took all the main points of this movie and set it in a high school and called it The Faculty (my theory). I can't even sit through that movie without thinking of how that movie got made. Leave The Thing alone. there's no point. just put out another videogame and rerelease the movie in theatres. BAM! everyone's happy.

We'll see

Whooaaa....Attempting to recreate a perfect film! Makes me worried....

Here's a thought... has the scariest horror movie been made yet? When I think of the advance of technology (being more integrated into the film experience) I cannot believe the boundaries have been pushed far enough to really frighten you.

but You have to admit, a sequel would be WAY better. the ending left it open to a small amount of really cool possiblilities. I don't want to see the world be taken over by the thing. Then it would just be I am Legend mixed with the body snatchers. I want to see wtf the THING was gonna do. If it was one of the last 2 guys, would it kill the other and be left there alone and freeze until found again? Would it use something like the other man's body to stay alive. Perhaps a rescue team arrives the next day and it happens all over again but with the mystery of, which one was the THING in the end. *sigh* It still sounds to me like whoever got this info sucks and got it all mixed up.

a prequel to me would see it from where it all started...at the start of the thing we see the space ship enter earth right...well if that was 1000 years ago or 10,000 would that make a good movie. only Carpenter should go near anything to do with this movie.

Carpenter's The Thing is one film that I could never have envisioned being remade. I'm hoping that the new filmmakers are just going to concentrate on the Swede, I mean Norweigen's, story. Everytime I have watched Carpenter's film, I have always wondered exactly what happened at their camp. If they do end up showing the American camp I'm hoping that they will include McCready's iconic hat.

I'll probably watch it. If they have to use cgi i hope they make it like that lion from Narnia

Making a sequel to The Thing would ruin the entire point of the end!

Seeing as how I don't want them to remake the thing...& the idea of a prequel w/Mac's brother sounds gotdam ree-dic-u-lus...I like f**k u's idea of a prequel. It'd work out great for me if it panned out like this : "we would see it from where it all started...at the start of the thing we see the space ship enter earth right...well if that was 1000 years ago or 10,000 would that make a good movie. only Carpenter should go near anything to do with this movie." Scene #1/Prequel begins : Ship enters earth's atmosphere...ship crashes...thing ejects...thing freezes a few hundred yards into a frozen tundra...the end. Crisis avoided!!!! Heh heh heh. Don't fwock with perfection.