Matthijs Van Heijningen
The Thing remake to preview this weekend at New York Comic-Con 2010
Universal Pictures presents the cast and filmmakers from its upcoming prequel thriller The Thing. In the film that serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s cult sci-fi classic 1982 thriller of the same name, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. …
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The Thing remake gets two cast members
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton are set to star in The Thing re-imagining, according to HeatVisionBlog. The 1982 John Carpenter-directed Kurt Russell cult movie, and the 1951 Howard Hawks film The Thing From Another World, both take inspiration from a 1938 short story, Who Goes There? published in the pulp magazine Astounding. Matthijs Van …
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Details on The Thing prequel story line, plus a new casting call
A very detailed casting call for director Matthijs Van Heijningen’s (Red Rain) Thing prequel has been posted on SpoilerTV. The story line centers on a remote Antarctica outpost (presumably the Norwegian one that we last saw a dog being chased from by rifle-toting madmen in a helicopter), where an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath …
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The Thing remake number two gets a director
Universal is ling up a new take on the sci-fi horror classic The Thing, last brought to the screen by John Carpenter in 1982. This, according to a report on Variety. Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore is attached to write the script and commercial director Matthijs Van Heijningen will direct the new project, which …
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