The last update we got on Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s THE THING prequel came last month, when we found out the flick scored an April 29, 2011 release date. Now that’s all fine and dandy… but we want more! Right? Right!
Well it seems our prayers have been answered because today we’ve got the full synopsis for THE THING to feast our eyes upon! There’s actually no point in even sugar coating this one, check it:
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.
Alright, so we already knew the just of this bad boy but it’s nice to finally see a rundown of what’ll be going on. As the synopsis mentions, the feature stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (below) and Joel Edgerton along with Eric Christian Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kim Bubbs and many others. This little diddy is currently filming so we should be hearing more from the set soon. As always be sure to keep it here for updates as we hear them!