The Thing Prequel.
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Studios have become savvy to the fact that it�s just as profitable to go back as it is to go forward, and it appears the boys at Strike Entertainment�the same company that brought us the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, SLiTHER, and the forthcoming historical epic 300 (which looks amazing)�feel this is the key ingredient to bring THE THING back to the big screen. Fango has learned that Strike is combing Hollywood for a writer (or writers) to tackle a THING prequel. Since the production house works solely with Universal, which gave us John Carpenter�s classic 1982 THING remake, this is understandable.
The gestation period on a new THING has been a long one. Since Carpenter�s film�starring Kurt Russell, a bevy of amazing character actors and the timeless, inimitable special FX of Rob Bottin�overcame initial critical and public derision to become a modern classic, Universal has pondered just what to do with a property that is ripe for follow-up status. Many have stepped in to lend their two cents, beginning with Dark Horse Comics, which created a miniseries back in the early �90s that was the next best thing to getting a full-blown cinematic continuation. Then George Clooney flirted with the idea of bringing the original story, �Who Goes There?� (by John W. Campbell), to the small screen in a project similar to the black-and-white FAIL SAFE he executive-produced; then the THING video game came along; then Frank Darabont was attached to a Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Time will tell if the prequel�s birth will come anytime soon; we�ll keep you updated. �Ryan Rotten<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I know for a fact alot of us here love the famous interstellar thriller that is The Thing. This is the one movie that scared me growing up and helped with my love of games such as Natural Selection and Aliens.
The movie will feature the killed Norwegians who discover the "Thing" and it goes about it ways of assimilating those around it for whatever reason.
So yeah
Studios have become savvy to the fact that it�s just as profitable to go back as it is to go forward, and it appears the boys at Strike Entertainment�the same company that brought us the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, SLiTHER, and the forthcoming historical epic 300 (which looks amazing)�feel this is the key ingredient to bring THE THING back to the big screen. Fango has learned that Strike is combing Hollywood for a writer (or writers) to tackle a THING prequel. Since the production house works solely with Universal, which gave us John Carpenter�s classic 1982 THING remake, this is understandable.
The gestation period on a new THING has been a long one. Since Carpenter�s film�starring Kurt Russell, a bevy of amazing character actors and the timeless, inimitable special FX of Rob Bottin�overcame initial critical and public derision to become a modern classic, Universal has pondered just what to do with a property that is ripe for follow-up status. Many have stepped in to lend their two cents, beginning with Dark Horse Comics, which created a miniseries back in the early �90s that was the next best thing to getting a full-blown cinematic continuation. Then George Clooney flirted with the idea of bringing the original story, �Who Goes There?� (by John W. Campbell), to the small screen in a project similar to the black-and-white FAIL SAFE he executive-produced; then the THING video game came along; then Frank Darabont was attached to a Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Time will tell if the prequel�s birth will come anytime soon; we�ll keep you updated. �Ryan Rotten<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I know for a fact alot of us here love the famous interstellar thriller that is The Thing. This is the one movie that scared me growing up and helped with my love of games such as Natural Selection and Aliens.
The movie will feature the killed Norwegians who discover the "Thing" and it goes about it ways of assimilating those around it for whatever reason.
So yeah
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I just hope they dont decide to put the whole thing in Norwegian <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
I rather see it in Norwegian because it's the language they spoke in the first one.
Exciting. I've always wanted to hear their story in full.
I rather see it in Norwegian because it's the language they spoke in the first one.
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Actually it wasn't. It was the actor who tried to scramble a bunch of Norwegian words he knew in hopes people wouldn't know
I want a remake of that "The Thing" game. Such a genious idea...too bad the basics didn't work out so well.
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I don't think it would be easy, unless it was multiplayer, computers aren't too good at deception.
Actually it wasn't. It was the actor who tried to scramble a bunch of Norwegian words he knew in hopes people wouldn't know
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You're right... he does say a lot of non-sense. But bizarelly enough, some sentences are actually fairly understandable. One sentence he nails pretty good (although with the thickest foreign accent ever) is:
"Det er en slags ting... den imiterer!", which translates roughly to,
"It's some kind of thing... and it imitates". Basically, he was trying to say that the thing is capable of imitating/copy/emulate different species.
At least he got one sentence right <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />