Mary's awesome, hopefully this remake will turnout decent enough.

I love Mary! She was great in FD3 and Death Proof! Can't wait for this.

Well, the fact that they feel the need to add a female to the cast when their are no women in the original sounds more like a studio trying to appeal to the masses than trying to make a decent prequel that follows the story set by the original. It's too early to bitch, but this just sounds iffy.

i love mary...shes one of my favorite horror ladies

Yay! I love Mary since FD3 and was particularly naive and cute girl in Tarantino's Death Proof. Can´t wait now!

This better be a sequel/prequel because the JC version is SO good that it could never be touched!

Ethan Hawke would be perfect for the main role.

lol.

ugh

Wow,can already smell the PC lameness.

Oh god that synopsis read like a SyFy originals movie! This is scary...

Why add a woman? Even though I'm a woman, something I liked about the Carpenter version was that there were no women. If she's a strong Lt. Ripley type then maybe it'd be cool.

A female lead, brilliant. We'll spend the entire film wondering if she's going to survive, I'm sure.

Looks like they are appealing to the attention deficit young 'uns with the disposable income, those that like the disposable forgettable crap like Saw & Final Destination. Oh look, the sexy young must be a super genius to be on a research station at 25 Mary.

I'm only hanging in there coz of Ronald D Moore's involvement who did such a great job with Battlestar. I could end up being wrong but this is one movie that could do without pretty actors I reckon. Obvious they're pandering to the ADD generation (sorry to generalise). What about the original Norweigan idea? Has that been abandoned now? I also hear this will have 'all-new-improved CGI'. Don't know bout the rest of you but I'm getting a sinking feeling of depression

One of the things I liked most about "The Thing" was the special effects. It wasn't CG garbage, it was full-on, man-made effects, and it was some of the coolest shit I've seen. A remake will be full of CG and will take away one of the best things about the 1980's version. I hope for the best, but expect the worst.

if it away from cgi it may wrok

The prequel is an ingenious idea, starting at the Norwegian camp and then ending with the dog running to the American camp. If you watch The Thing, you will see that the picture of the Norwegians discovering the alien craft there was a woman on their team, so this makes sense and sticks to the story. However, the CG could be a serious disaster. They just won't have the budget to do Speilberg or Cameron-esque effects. Let's all pray they bring in the next Rob Botin 2.0 to do some practical work. All in all, if they are able to capture the fear and paranoia that made the 1980 version a masterpiece, then I'm all for it. I will remain cautiously excited. And thanks BD for giving us the scoop.

Not interested.

Mary Elizabeth Winested...sooo hot. Want to touch the hiney. Awoooooooo!

The reason there's a female in it is because there WAS a female main character in the movie that this is a remake of (The Thing From Another World) ... there might have even been a second female character. I don't think the original was in a Norwegian camp however, but that's obviously playing more to be a prequel of Carpenters movie. And if they play it to end exactly how The Thing begins, I guess helicopter pilot Joel Edgerton 'blows up real good' with his helicopter (never throw a grenade with slippery wet gloves).

lol I agree with MetalMike, but don't we all know how it ends though. I mean they are all probably going to die. There were no survivors in the other camp when Kurt Russel and the other guy went to go investigate what went on at there camp. But this team did find the space craft so I bet that's going to turn out really interesting in the movie.

im skeptical, this has earmarks of being a pile of shit. its has giant shoes to fill!

huh. so she'll either get killed by the alien or die in the helicopter explosion from the beginning of the first movie...

Mary has been in horror films, but all of them happen to be terrible. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be the case as well.