So Winstead is the spunky survivor-girl…who doesn't survive? Bullshit. I smell a cheat/leap-frog of the Carpenter movie. If they do go the period route, we'll know she has a full bush at least (feathered though?). God bless the 80s…

What just occurred to me: will this be a period film?
Good point..
If it's not set in 1982 (or before) then this "prequel" will be a set up for it's sequel which is the remake of the Thing…
Think about it, what better way to test a remake then to make a prequel of it…

A woman?? Disgusting!

I hope Edgerton is the guy who gets put down by Donald Moffat.

You have a script? LOL, I'm not even going to get in to the irony of this you hypocrite.

If The Thing's ship ends up crashing at the end of the movie and the real "thing" in the movie turns out to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead's 12 inch dick and Uncle Owen goes down hardcore on that shit, despite his earlier reservations, my ticket is bought right now. If this is going to be filled with fake swedish accents and CGI tentacles, well, I at least need to see the trailer, hopefully one that includes some sort of animal(polar bear?) splitting in half and spraying blood everywhere, before I completely dismiss it.

This project sounds like it's gonna blow big huge chunks of crap all over the audience. First off, one of the ways the Carpenter remake of The Thing stood out was that it was about a bunch of guys (all guys, mind you) stuck out in a vast frozen desert, holding down the fort as a team of research scientists. All of them had that grizzled look of actually having been in a frozen wasteland for months on end (Carpenter filmed in in Hyder & Stewart, Alaska and the cast got quite chummy with the blue-collar locals).

Sorry but the under-30, CW casting of this "prequel" doesn't cut it for me. I find it hard to believe that fresh-faced kids who look like models do any kind of science under miserable conditions.

"The Thing" in 1982 was believable for the fact that it starred a bunch of old, grizzled guys and not a bunch of cutsie kids pretending to be experienced scientists, mechanics, kennel keepers and flyboys. Since this is a prequel, how does women's lib enter into this conversation?? The Carpenter film showed nothing but male corpses in the Norwegian camp (and hey, the were ALL Norwegian, too… so WTF?!? American kids are suddenly part of the team?!?), and if the US camp was any indication, it was all staffed by guys before the Thing appeared, too (this was 1982, after all).

That's the reality of the South Pole stations, btw…

In a recent Kansas City Star article on McMurdo station, the journalist pointed this out: "Some South Pole realities set in quickly. Consider the dating scene. Of the 58 people at the pole that winter, [out of a 2010 winter population of about 250 people] just 11 were women." In 1982, that was probably far, far less (probably zilch). Not that I want to slag women in film, I don't… but let's be considerate to the story here as Carpenter's film was.

Closely based on the "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., Carpenter's film carried over most of the 1938 story's characters (again, all men) and closely identified them with their setting… again, a vast, frozen wasteland. These guys all looked like they'd been hanging around the Ross Ice Shelf for too long even before the creature started to create havoc. They were believable (the actors all do a heckuva job… especially Russell and Brimley) and that made the unbelievable events that followed ("you gotta be fucking kidding me") more horrifying.

This reboot/prequel is already doing Carpenter's (and, Campbell's) vision a disservice, but as it's only goal is to make a ton of money quickly on its first weekend (good luck with that, Universal), I really should just let this one go and not get so riled up… It'll be trash, that's a given and that's good enough for this generation of filmgoers apparently.

Well, here's one movie I won't need to see. I already know how it ends: They all die! Unless Edgerton and Winstead somehow miraculously survive, which would be totally lame. But hey, we're talking about a totally unnecessary lame-ass prequel/reboot/whatever here. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. Anyway, I think I'll just save me some money and pop in my DVD of John Carpenter's The Thing instead.

So??? what??? Is Kurt Russell not looking for any work that they couldn't of called him up and simply made a sequel to The THING instead of this Prequel nonsense????

So, will there actually be any Norwegian's in this movie? F this piece of shit.

I think it would be cool if The Thing were remade every thirty years, baring little resemblance to the previous incarnation other than an antarctic research base under attack from an alien. In other words, fuck this shit.