Posted on 07/22/2011 4:59:17 AM PDT by tlb
Release Date: 14 October 2011
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. While Dr. Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form. Written by IMDb Editors
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists.
The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead). Written by Universal Pictures
according to you...so what?.
but it is far more accurate to the original story
means nothing....
for instance....2 Jack Nicholson Movies are (far) better than the books they came from....’One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ and ‘the Shining’
both authors near had a coronary with what was done with their 'masterpieces' but the movie going public and the critics for once agreed...2 of the best movies ever.
About a month ago, somebody posted a link to the BBC Radio version.
I don't remember the where, but the file name is "Who Goes There by
John Campbell.mp3" if you want to try to hunt it down.
“a better movie than the 1982 flick... “
And THAT was according to you...so what?
Then you said “the Shining’ with Nicholson was better than the book???
Wow. That just says it all.
Naw. Just pushed aside.
after a friend loaded me down with Steven King books I read one or two and returned them and said...'Thanks, but no thanks'....and his ultra left wing zer0bama love fest put the icing on the cake
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