Thing, The
| Published: | 2011 |
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| Runtime: | 103 minutes |
| Genre: | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller |
| Cast: | Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Trond Espen Seim |
| Music: | |
| Executive Producer: | J. Miles Dale |
| Producer: | Eric Newman |
| Director: | Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. |
| Production companies: | Strike Entertainment, |
Released 2012
Languages
| English | ||
| French | ||
| German | ||
| Italian | ||
| Portuguese | ||
| Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
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Bonus material
Deleted / Extended scenes
Shaping The Thing
Fire and Ice
Commentary with director Matthijs Van Heijningen and producer Eric Newman
Picture-in-Picture
Synopsis
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is sent to a Norwegian research station near the South pole, where a buried space ship has been discovered. The Norwegian team have also found an organism that apparently died in the crash thousands of years ago, but it now waking up from its hibernation.. When an experiment fails and releases the alien from the ice block, Kate and the expeditions pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), must fight side by side with the Norwegians to stay alive. But when they discover that the create is a parasite that disguises itself as any living being it consumes, the terror fully sets. Nobody knows who they can trust...In the cast we also find: Trond Espen Seim, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Jørgen Langhelle, Kristofer Hivju and Jo Adrian Haavind.
The Thing is the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic with the same name.