Overview
Genre
HorrorRelease Date
October 14, 2011MPAA Rating
RDuration
103 min.Studio
Universal PicturesOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.Producer
Marc Abraham, Eric NewmanScreenwriter
Ronald D. Moore, Eric HeissererStarring
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Lloyd
- Eric Christian Olsen as Adam Goodman
- Joel Edgerton as Sam Carter
- Jonathan Walker
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Ulrich Thomsen
- Kim Bubbs
Story
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").
